Preseason Gameday: Flyers vs. Bruins
New head coach Alain Vigneault and the Philadelphia Flyers (0-1-1 in the preseason) will take on Bruce Cassidy's Boston Bruins (0-0-1) at the Wells Fargo Center on Thursday night. Game time is 7 p.m. EDT. The game will be televised on NBCSP and NHL Network.
Thursday's game is likely to mark the debut of the defense pairing of offseason addition Matt Niskanen with Ivan Provorov. Additionally, Sean Couturier and team captain Claude Giroux are slated to play for the first time during the exhibition season. Recently re-signed right winger Travis Konecny will not play until Saturday.
Flyers morning skate lines are below. The Bruins roster/lineup will be posted later.
FLYERS
28 Claude Giroux - 14 Sean Couturier - 14 Joel Farabee
25 JVR - 48 Morgan Frost - 93 Jakub Voracek
10 Andy Andreoff - 50 Rubtsov - 62 Nicolas Aube-Kubel
81 Carsen Twarynski - 81 Connor Bunnaman - 51 Kyle Criscuolo
9 Ivan Provorov - 15 Matt Niskanen
53 Shayne Gostisbehere - 61 Justin Braun
26 Tyler Wotherspoon - 5 Philippe Myers
37 Brian Elliott (1st and 2nd periods)
34 Alex Lyon (3rd period)
PP1: Giroux (playing on right side), Voracek (on left), Couturier, JVR, Ghost.
PP2: Frost, NAK, Farabee, Provorov, Myers.
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Quick Hits: September 19, 2019
1) The Flyers made eight roster cuts on Tuesday. The team reassigned defensemen Egor Zamula (Calgary, WHL), Wyatte Wylie (Everett, WHL), and Mason Millman (Saginaw, OHL) to their respective CHL teams, along with right winger Egor Serdyuk (Victoriaville, QMJHL). The CHL regular seasons begin this weekend.
Additionally, the Flyers released defenseman Sean Comrie and forwards Max Golod, Ben McCartney (who, unfortunately, was not able to practice at camp apart from rehab work due to a hip flexor), and Mika Cyr from their amateur tryouts.
The Flyers camp roster now stands at 54 players. The next round of cuts -- the first involving players slated to join the AHL's Lehigh Valley Phantoms -- will come over the weekend.
2) On the Flyers' official website on Thursday morning, we will take a look at the catch-up plan for Travis Konecny this week. He is slated to get in three practices before playing for the first time in the exhibition season. He had a video session on Wednesday in addition to skating with the injury-rehab players.
3) Morgan Frost (groin, day-to-day) skated on Wednesday for the first time since Sunday's practice. Other players to take part on the ice on Wednesday, in addition to Konecny, included Nolan Patrick and Gerry Fitzgerald. Samuel Morin, who is healthy, put in some extra work as well with skills coach Angelo Ricci.
4) The new edition of the Bundy and Bill podcast on Flyers Radio 24/7 is now available for download. In this edition, Chris Therien and I discuss the Flyers preseason to date and look at how the roster battles are shaping up so far in camp.
Click here.
5) Sept. 19 Flyers Alumni birthdays: Scott Daniels (1969), Gilbert Dionne (1970), Josh Gratton (1982) and Joni Pitkänen (1983). Additionally, current Flyers center Nolan Patrick celebrates his
21st birthday today.
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