Philadelphia Flyers

Flyers at Seattle Preview: Lineups, Notes & How to Watch

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1 year ago

February 16, 2023

Flyers RW Owen Tippett is all miles after scoring against Seattle on Sunday. The teams have a rematch Thursday. Photo: AP.

The Flyers will try to avenge a recent loss when they play the Kraken on Thursday in Seattle.

In their last game, the Flyers (22-23-10) dropped a 4-3 decision Sunday to the second-year Kraken.

Balanced scoring has been Seattle’s calling card. The Kraken (30-18-6) and Vegas are the only NHL teams with 10 players who have scored at least 10 goals.

The Flyers have five such players.

Seattle is fifth in the NHL in goals scored per game (3.46), while the Flyers are 27th (2.69 per game).

Flyers’ expected lineup

Lines

Hayes-Cates-Tippett

JVR-Frost-Konecny

Farabee-Laughton-Allison

Deslauriers-Brown-Bellows

Defense

Provorov-York

Sanheim-Ristolainen

Seeler-DeAngelo

Goalie

Hart (16-15-9, 2.78 GAA, .913 SP)

Kraken’s expected lineup

Lines

McCann-Beniers-Eberle

Schwartz-Wennberg-Tanev

Tolvanen-Gourde-Bjorkstrand

Donato-Geekie-Hayden

Defense

Dunn-Larsson

Oleksiak-Borgen

Schultz-Soucy

Goalie

Grubauer (6-9-3, 2.90, .900)

Breakaways

Jared McCann leads Seattle with 25 goals, while Travis Konecny paces the Flyers with 24. Konecny is goal-less in his last 13 games. … Hart is 1-0 with a 1.00 GAA and .958 save percentage in his only appearance vs. the Kraken. …. Grubauer will make his third straight start. … Jordan Eberle has 24 points (9-15) in 30 career games against the Flyers. … Seattle is returning home after a 1-3-1 road trip.

The Flyers are 11-6-3 in their last 20 games. … A win would give the Kraken three season-series sweeps; they have swept Pittsburgh and Buffalo. … The Flyers are 11-9-7 on the road, where they have points in their last three games (2-0-1). They have 14 road games remaining. … Defenseman Justin Schultz has five assists over his last five games against the Flyers. … Philly is tied for first in the NHL with 10 shorthanded goals — their most since scoring 13 in 2010-11. … In his last seven games, Rasmus Ristolinen has six points and is plus-6.