Preview: Flyers vs. Ducks
Philadelphia Flyers (4-2-1) will host the Anaheim Ducks (3-4-0) in a Saturday matinee at the Wells Fargo Center. Game time is 1:00 p.m. ET.
The Flyers enter Saturday's game coming off a 6-2 rout of the Minnesota Wild to improve to 3--0-0 at home so far this season. The Ducks, who are 2-2-0 on the road, are coming off a 4-3 overime road win against the Boston Bruins.
Saturday's game is the second in a four-game homestand for the Flyers. For the Ducks, it's the third game of a four-game road trip.
For an in-depth preview of the game, see "Five Things" on the Flyers official website on Saturday morning. Projected lineups are listed below.
FLYERS
11 Travis Konecny - 21 Scott Laughton - 71 Tyson Foerster 74 Owen Tippett- 14 Sean Couturier - 89 Cam Atkinson 86 Joel Farabee - 27 Noah Cates - 10 Bobby Brink 44 Nic Deslauriers- 25 Ryan Poehling- Garnet Hathaway
8 Cam York - 6 Travis Sanheim 5 Egor Zamula - 26 Sean Walker 37 Louie Belpedio - 24 Nick Seeler
79 Carter Hart [33 Samuel Ersson]
DUCKS
11 Trevor Zegras - 91 Leo Carlsson - 19 Troy Terry 77 Frank Vatrano - 23 Mason McTavish - 16 Ryan Strome 49 Max Jones - 14 Adam Henrique - 33 Jakob Silfverberg 44 Ross Johnston - 39 Sam Carrick - 20 Brett Leason
4 Cam Fowler - 60 Jackson Lacombe 5 Urho Vaakanainen - 7 Radko Gudas 34 Pavel Mintyukov - 46 Ilya Lyubushkin
36 John Gibson 1 Lukas Dostal
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Preview: Phantoms @ Hershey
After winning two of three games in a three-in-three set last weekend, the Lehigh Valley Phantoms (3-2-0) return to action on Saturday on the road against the arch-rival Hershey Bears (4-2-0). Game time is 7:05 p.m. ET. The Phantoms are home on Sunday to host the Hartford Wolf Pack (4-1-0) in a 5:05 p.m. ET game. Both games will be streamed on AHL TV (subscription required).
Olle Lycksell earned AHL Player of the Week honor last weekend with five goals in the three-game set including a hat trick. Emil Andrae will play his first AHL regular season game of the young season after being sent down by the Flyers earlier in the week.