Preview: Flyers vs. Capitals
Opening a home-and-home set that will resume in DC the next night, the Philadelphia Flyers (1-3-1) will host the Washington Capitals (3-1-0) on Tuesday at Wells Fargo Center. Take note of the unusual starting time: 6 p.m. EDT.
The Flyers will look to snap a four-game winless streak (0-3-1) since their opening night shootout victory in Vancouver. The Capitals will try to build on the three-game winning streak they've put together since an opening night loss to the New Jersey Devils.
For an in-depth preview, see Tuesday's edition of Five Things when it posts on the Flyers official website. The Flyers will not hold a morning skate on Tuesday.
With Scott Laughton not practicing on Monday (his wife Chloe was in labor with the family's first child), the Flyers featured some different line combinations. The actual starting lineup will be posted as a blog update during pregame warmups. Defenseman Nick Seeler, activated from IR, is expected to make his season debut on Tuesday.
Monday's practice lines
74 Owen Tippett - 25 Ryan Poehling - 39 Matvei Michkov 71 Tyson Foerster - 48 Morgan Frost - 11 Travis Konecny 86 Joel Farabee - 14 Sean Couturier - 10 Bobby Brink 44 Nicolas Deslauriers - 27 Noah Cates - 19 Garnet Hathaway
Extra forward:17 Jett Luchanko Excused from practice: 21 Scott Laughton
8 Cam York - 6 Travis Sanheim 24 Nick Seeler - 9 Jamie Drysdale 5 Egor Zamula - 55 Rasmus Ristolainen
Extra defenseman: 77 Erik Johnson
33 Samuel Ersson 82 Ivan Fedotov
PP1: Drysdale, Tippett, Frost, Konecny, Michkov PP2: Zamula, Farabee, Poehling, Couturier, Brink