Game 9 Preview: Flyers @ Rangers

John Tortorella's Philadelphia Flyers (5-2-1) are in Manhattan on Tuesday to take on Gerard Gallant's New York Rangers (5-3-2). Game time at Madison Square Garden is 7:00 p.m. EDT.

The Flyers are playing the first game of a three-game road trip and the front end of a back-to-back. They'll travel to Toronto immediately after this game and then visit the Maple Leafs on Wednesday evening.

On Saturday in Philadelphia, the Flyers spotted the Carolina Hurricanes a 2-0 lead before Philly rallied for goals by Nicolas Deslauriers (1st), Owen Tippett (PPG, 1st) and Wade Allison (2nd) to take a one-goal lead. Carolina re-tied the score in the latter stages of regulation and then down the Flyers, 4-3, in sudden death overtime at 3-on-3.

The Rangers wrapped up a three-game road trip (2-1-0) on Saturday with a 3-2 win over the Arizona Coyotes. Alexis Lafreniere (2nd), Artemi Panarin (5th) and Mika Zibanejad (PPG, 6th) tallied for New York.

For an in-depth preview, see Five Things on PhiladelphiaFlyers.com. Projected lineups are below (subject to change).

FLYERS

86 Joel Farabee - 13 Kevin Hayes - 11 Travis Konecny
49 Noah Cates - 21 Scott Laughton - 74 Owen Tippett
20 KIeffer Bellows - 48 Morgan Frost - 17 Zack MacEwen
44 Nicolas Deslauriers - 23 Lukas Sedlak - 57 Wade Allison

9 Ivan Provorov - 77 Tony DeAngelo
6 Travis Sanheim - 61 Justin Braun
24 Nick Seeler - 55 Rasmus Ristolainen

79 Carter Hart
[32 Felix Sandström]

PP1: DeAngelo, Tippett, Hayes, Konecny, Laughton.
PP2: Provorov, Farabee, Frost, Cates, Frost, MacEwen.

Potential scratches: 58 Tanner Laczynski, 54 Egor Zamula.

RANGERS

20 Chris Kreider - 93 Mika Zibanejad - 24 Kaapo Kakko
10 Artemi Panarin - 16 Vincent Trocheck - 13 Alexis Lafrenière
26 Jimmy Vesey - 21 Barclay Goodrow - 12 Julien Gauthier
91 Sammy Blais - 22 Ryan Carpenter - 75 Ryan Reaves

23 Adam Fox - 55 Ryan Lindgren
8 Jacob Trouba - 79 K'Andre Miller
4 Braden Schneider - 6 Zac Jones

31 Igor Sheshertkin
[41 Jaroslav Halak]

PP1: Fox, Zibanejad, Trocheck,Panarin, Kreider.
PP2: Trouba, Lafrenière, Goodrow, Kakko, Jones

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