What to watch as Flyers face Islanders
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The 20-18-6 Philadelphia Flyers will face the 27-13-4 New York Islanders for the final time this season.
Here’s what to watch:
Finale between the two teams
This is the eighth and final meeting of the season series between the Flyers and the Islanders.
The Flyers are 3-1-3 against the Islanders this season, with five of the seven games going beyond regulation.
Hockey Fights Cancer Night
Sunday night the Flyers’ will honor the NHL’s league-wide annual “Hockey Fights Cancer Night”.
During warmups, the Flyers players will wear their purple Hockey Fights Cancer jerseys as they do once a season. Other highlights of the night include tributes to Oskar Lindblom, who successfully battled Ewing’s Sarcoma a year ago.
Tony Campisi, a local 17-year-old hockey player battling cancer for the second time, will serve as an honorary Flyers coach and read off the starting lineup in the locker room before the team takes to the ice.
All fans attending the game will receive “I Fight For…” placards, which can be filled out with the name of someone close to the recipient who has dealt with cancer.
Lineups
Flyers:
93 Jakub Voracek -14 Sean Couturier – 11 Travis Konecny
86 Joel Farabee – 28 Claude Giroux – 57 Wade Allison
23 Oskar Lindblom -13 Kevin Hayes – 25 James van Riemsdyk
81 Carsen Twarynski – 21 Scott Laughton – 62 Nicolas Aube-Kubel
9 Ivan Provorov – 61 Justin Braun
6 Travis Sanheim – 5 Phil Myers
55 Samuel Morin – 53 Shayne Gostisbehere
37 Brian Elliott
[34 Alex Lyon]
PP1: Giroux, Farabee, Konecny, Voracek, Gostisbehere.
PP2: Farabee, Couturier, Hayes, JVR, Provorov.
Scratches: 8 Robert Hägg (healthy), 79 Carter Hart (lower body), 58 Tanner Laczynski (lower body), 19 Nolan Patrick (upper body).
Injured reserve: 48 Morgan Frost (shoulder surgery).
COVID-19 protocol: None.
Islanders:
13 Mathew Barzal – 14 Travis Zajac – 7 Jordan Eberle
28 Michael Dal Colle – 29 Brock Nelson – 21 Kyle Palmieri
18 Anthony Beauvillier – 44 Jean-Gabriel Pageau – 26 Oliver Wahlstrom
17 Matt Martin – 53 Casey Cizikas – 47 Leo Komarov
3 Adam Pelech – 6 Ryan Pulock
2 Nick Leddy – 24 Scott Mayfield
8 Noah Dobson – 4 Andy Greene
30 Ilya Sorokin
40 Semyon Varlamov
PP 1: Barzal, Nelson, Eberle, Pulock, Leddy
PP 2: Pageau, Beauvillier, Palmieri, Wahlstrom, Dobson
Scratches: 12 Josh Bailey (day-to-day),15 Cal Clutterbuck (day-to-day), 25 Sebastian Aho (healthy), 32 Ross Johnston (healthy).
Injured reserve: 27 Anders Lee (ACL surgery).
COVID-19 protocol: 45 Braydon Coburn.
Essentials
When: 6:30 P.M. E.S.T.
Where: Wells Fargo Center
Broadcast: NBC Sports Philadelphia
Radio: 97.5 The Fanatic
Social media coverage: Philly Sports Reports’ Twitter & Instagram.
