Game 38 Preview: Flyers @ Ducks
John Tortorella's Philadelphia Flyers (13-17-7) will visit Dallas Eakins' Anaheim Ducks (10-23-4) on Monday night. Game time at the Honda Center is 10:00 p.m. ET.
On Dec. 31 in Los Angeles, the Flyers skated to a 4-2 win after trailing by scores of 1-0 and 2-1. Scott Laughton (PPG, 8th goal of the season), Owen Tippett (12th), Noah Cates (SHG, 4th) and Travis Konecny (ENG, 18th) scored for the Flyers. Samuel Ersson stopped 27 of 29 shots to earn the win in goal.
The Ducks, who are playing the sixth game of a 10-game homestand on either side of the league-wide holiday break (two games before the break, eight games post-Christmas) last played on Dec. 30. The visiting Nashville Predators skated to a 6-1 blowout victory. =
Konecny brings a five-game point streak into Anaheim. In that span, he's racked up six goals and three assists for nine points. Over the last 10 games, he's recorded at least one point in nine (8g, 4a, 12 points).
Tippett, who has scored in back-to-back games and has posted four goals and six points in the last five games.
Potential lineups (subject to change, will be updated)
Flyers
86 Joel Farabee - 49 Noah Cates - 11 Travis Konecny 25 James van Riemsdyk - 48 Morgan Frost - 74 Owen Tippett 13 Kevin Hayes - 21 Scott Laughton - 57 Wade Allison 44 Nicolas Deslauriers - 38 Patrick Brown - 17 Zack MacEwen
9 Ivan Provorov - 45 Cam York 6 Travis Sanheim - 77 Tony DeAngelo 24 Nick Seeler - 55 Rasmus Ristolainen
79 Carter Hart (if activated from IR) or 33 Samuel Ersson [Ersson or 32 Felix Sandström]
DUCKS
14 Adam Henrique - 11 Trevor Zegras - 19 Troy Terry 44 Maxime Comtois - 16 Ryan Strome - 33 Jakob Silfverberg 77 Frank Vatrano - 37 Mason McTavish - 20 Brett Leason 54 Justin Kirkland - 39 Sam Carrick - 20 Jayson Megna
4 Cam Fowler - 29 Dmitry Kulikov 13 Simon Benoit - 3 John Klingberg 45 Colton White - 22 Kevin Shattenkirk
36 John Gibson 41 Anthony Stolarz
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