What to watch in game 2 of Flyers’ Devils week
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Devils week continues for the Philadelphia Flyers! They head to New Jersey Tuesday night.
Here’s what to watch:
Devils week continues
The Flyers and Devils will be facing off all week. For the first time in the Flyers’ regular season history, there will be four straight games against the same team. Tonight’s game is the second of the four and the fifth game of the eight-game season series between the teams.
The teams will play each other at the Prudential Center again on Thursday and then return to the Wells Fargo Center on May 1. The season series will conclude in Philadelphia on May 10, the final game of the season for both teams.
The Flyers are 3-1-0 against the Devils this season. Philadelphia earned 5-3 and 3-1 victories at the Prudential Center on January 26 and 28. The Devils skated to a 4-3 win at the Wells Fargo Center on March 23 as a late rally by the Flyers fell short. On April 25, two late goals by Claude Giroux rescued the Flyers from a regulation loss before the team prevailed 4-3 (3-2) in a shootout.
NHL debut
Rookie defenseman Egor Zamula will make his NHL debut for the Flyers in Tuesday’s game. He will be paired with Travis Sanheim. Samuel Morin will exit the lineup.
Projected lineups
Flyers:
28 Claude Giroux -14 Sean Couturier – 93 Jakub Voracek
86 Joel Farabee – 13 Kevin Hayes – 11 Travis Konecny
25 James van Riemsdyk – 21 Scott Laughton – 57 Wade Allison
23 Oskar Lindblom – 59 Jackson Cates – 19 Nolan Patrick
9 Ivan Provorov – 61 Justin Braun
6 Travis Sanheim – 54 Egor Zamula
8 Robert Hägg – 5 Phil Myers
37 Brian Elliott
[34 Alex Lyon]
PP1: Giroux, Couturier, Allison, Voracek, Provorov
PP2: Hayes, Farabee, JVR, Konecny, Sanheim
Scratches: 55 Samuel Morin (healthy), 62 Nicolas Aube-Kubel (healthy), 53 Shayne Gostisbehere (MCL sprain, out 7-10 days from April 25), 79 Carter Hart (knee sprain).
Injured reserve: 48 Morgan Frost (shoulder surgery), 58 Tanner Laczynski (hip surgery).
COVID-19 protocol: None.
Devils:
11 Andreas Johnsson – 86 Jack Hughes – 17 Yegor Sharangovich
37 Pavel Zacha – 13 Nico Hischier – 63 Jesper Bratt
59 Janne Kuokkanen- 90 Jesper Boqvist – 39 Nick Merkley
44 Miles Wood – 20 Michael McLeod – 14 Nathan Bastian
22 Ryan Murray – 28 Damon Severson
8 Will Butcher – 5 Connor Carrick
2 Colton White – 7 Matt Tennyson
29 Mackenzie Blackwood
41 Scott Wedgewood
PP1: Hischier, Zacha, Hughes Merkley, Butcher
PP2: Jesper Bratt, Studenic/Kuokkanen, Sharangovich, Wood, Severson
Scratches: 67 Marian Studenic (healthy), 71 Jonas Siegenthaler (healthy), 23 Mikhail Maltsev (healthy), 47 Aaron Dell (healthy).
Injured reserve: 24 Ty Smith (upper body, doubtful).
COVID-19 protocol: 76 P.K. Subban (day-to-day).
Essentials
When: 7:00 P.M. E.S.T.
Where: Prudential Center
Broadcast: NBC Sports Philadelphia
Radio: 97.5 The Fanatic
Social media coverage: Philly Sports Reports’ Twitter & Instagram.
