QUICK HITS: SEPTEMBER 25. 2016
1) Before the Flyers embark upon their preseason schedule of games, there will be a scrimmage at the Skate Zone in Voorhees at 11 AM today. As always, the session is open and free to the public. Prior to the scrimmage, Groups 1 and 2 will practice at the same time (10:20 a.m.) on the Skate Zone's two rinks.
Practice/ Scrimmage Group 1
FORWARDS 10 Brayden Schenn 17 Wayne Simmonds 19 Jordan Weal 27 Boyd Gordon 38 Chris Conner 42 Petr Straka 46 Mark Zengerle 54 Greg Carey 60 Roman Lyubimov 63 Travis Konecny 70 Danick Martel 75 Pascal Laberge 76 Chris VandeVelde 82 Connor Bunnaman 85 Anthony Salinitri 87 Kevin Sundher
DEFENSE 3 Radko Gudas 43 TJ Brennan 45 Will O’Neill 47 Andrew MacDonald 50 Sam Morin 59 Jesper Pettersson 61 Philippe Myers 64 Ivan Provorov 68 Reece Willcox
GOALIES 35 Steve Mason 79 Carter Hart 86 Mark Dekanich
Practice/Scrimmage Group 2
FORWARDS 12 Michael Raffl 21 Scott Laughton 22 Dale Weise 24 Matt Read 36 Colin McDonald 37 Andy Miele 40 Corban Knight 52 Nick Cousins 56 Tyrell Goulbourne 58 Taylor Leier 62 Nicolas Aube-Kubel 65 Radel Fazleev 71 Samuel Dove-McFalls 72 Steven Swavely 74 Chris McCarthy 81 Carsen Twarynski
DEFENSE 15 Michael Del Zotto 23 Brandon Manning 39 Mark Alt 48 Robert Hà¤gg 55 Nick Schultz 57 Travis Sanheim 73 Maxim Lamarche 83 Garrett McFadden 84 Brennan Menell
GOALIES 41 Anthony Stolarz 49 Alex Lyon 67 Martin Ouellette
2) On Monday, the Flyers have split-squad road games in Newark, NJ against the New Jersey Devils and in Brooklyn against the New York Islanders. Both games start at 7 p.m. ET. The game in New Jersey will be broadcast on the radio on 97.5 FM and the game against the Islanders is slated to be streamed on the Flyers' official website.
On Tuesday, the Flyers host the Islanders at the Wells Fargo Center. On Tuesday, the Flyers play the Devils at the PPL Center in Allentown.
3) In Saturday's practice session, Flyers head coach Dave Hakstol conducted a much more battle-drill oriented day than the opening session on Friday.
"Today there was a little more battle in practice than there was yesterday, but there was also some subtle details mixed into almost each of the drills, but there was definitely more battles in there today with tight spaces, which is what it comes down to in a lot of game situations," Hakstol said during his media availability after the end of practice.
4) Flyers captain Claude Giroux was a healthy scratch (for the third time in the tournament) as Team Canada bombarded former Flyers goalie Sergei Bobrovsky with 47 shots and skated off with a 5-3 victory over Team Russia in the World Cup of Hockey semifinals. Canada will play the winner of Sunday's semifinal between Team Sweden and Team Europe, featuring Flyers players Pierre-Edouard Bellemare and Mark Streit. The game will start at 1 p.m. ET and be televised on ESPN in the United States and the CBC in Canada.
5) Flyers left wing prospect Oskar Lindblom posted an assist in Brynà¤s IF Gà¤vle's 3-1 loss to Frölunda HC Göteborg in the road half of an opening weekend home-and-home set on Saturday. On Friday, Lindblom scored two goals in a 7-2 blowout victory on home ice. Flyers goaltending prospect Felix Sandström was the backup goalie on Saturday after stopping 16 of 18 shots in Friday's win.
6) Flyers 2016 seventh-round pick David Bernhardt scored his second goal of the season for the Djurgà¥rdens IF Stockholm J20 team in a 4-1 home victory over Modo J20 in a J20 SuperElit game on Sunday. Heading into this game, the offensive-minded defenseman had racked up a staggering 21 shots on goal in the first three games, recording four points (one goal, three assists) before adding to those totals earlier today.
7) Flyers 2016 fifth-round pick Linus Högberg dressed as a seventh defenseman for the Và¤xjö Lakers in a 4-3 overtime home win over HV71 Jönköping on Saturday.
8) Flyers 2015 fifth-round pick David Kase was loaned from Czech Extraliga team Pirati Chomutov to Czech minor league team SK Kadan. Kase had no points in four games for Chomutov thus far.