Flyers-Panthers: Game 21 Preview

Philadelphia Flyers	GP	G	A	P	Florida Panthers	GP	G	A	P
Travis Konecny	20	8	11	19	Jonathan Huberdeau	20	9	18	27
Oskar Lindblom	20	9	7	16	Aleksander Barkov	20	6	19	25
Sean Couturier	20	6	9	15	Evgenii Dadonov	20	10	8	18
Claude Giroux	20	5	8	13	Keith Yandle	20	2	16	18
Jake Voracek	20	4	9	13	Mike Hoffman	20	8	7	15

 

Player to Watch
48 Morgan Frost	16 Aleksander Barkov
Last 5 Games: N/A	Last 5 Games: 3 G, 3 A, 6 P, +3

 

Morgan Frost makes his NHL debut on Tuesday night and all eyes are sure to be on the 20-year-old prospect. He's playing with two pretty good linemates too, Claude Giroux and Travis Konecny, which should give him the opportunity to be productive early in his career.

 

The skillful center Aleksander Barkov is always an offensive threat, but also one of the best two-way forwards in the game. Barkov has been productive all season, but he's especially started to pick things up in the goal scoring department with three of his six goals this season coming in the last five games.

 

Projected Goalie Matchup
79 Carter Hart	72 Sergei Bobrovsky
13 GP, 6-4-2, 2.50 GAA, .903 SV%	17 GP, 7-4-4, 3.53 GAA, .882 SV%

Carter Hart gets back in goal for the Flyers after suffering a hard-luck loss to the Ottawa Senators on Friday. Hart was excellent against Washington and looked solid in Ottawa as well, but allowed two goals in the second period. Even with two defeats in the last week, Hart has brought his other numbers back up with a string of successful starts. 

It's been a different start to the season for Sergei Bobrovsky. The elite netminder has struggled to start the season with just seven wins in 17 games played and an uncharacteristically high 3.53 GAA. Despite posting a 22-save shutout against Detroit on Nov. 2, Bobrovsky has allowed at least two goals in every other start this season, including at least three in five of his last seven starts. Bobrovsky does always get up to face his former team. Against the Flyers, he has a 14-3-1 record with a 2.14 GAA and .927 save percentage in 18 games.

Flyers Projected Lineup

Injuries: Nolan Patrick, Scott Laughton

Scratches: Chris Stewart, Robert Hagg

Left Wing	Center	Right Wing
23 Oskar Lindblom	14 Sean Couturier	49 Joel Farabee
28 Claude Giroux	48 Morgan Frost	11 Travis Konecny
25 James van Riemsdyk	13 Kevin Hayes	93 Jake Voracek
10 Andy Andreoff	12 Michael Raffl	18 Tyler Pitlick
Defense
9 Ivan Provorov	15 Matt Niskanen
53 Shayne Gostisbehere	61 Justin Braun
6 Travis Sanheim	5 Phil Myers
Goalie
79 Carter Hart	37 Brian Elliott

Lineup Notes

Frost joins the lineup on a line with Giroux and Konecny. Matt Niskanen was a game-time decision on Saturday, but played. He took a maintenance day on Monday and figures to be a game-time decision again for Tuesday's game.

Panthers Projected Lineup

Injuries: Jayce Hawryluk, Mackenzie Weeger

Scratches: Dryden Hunt

Left Wing	Center	Right Wing
11 Jonathan Huberdeau	16 Aleksander Barkov	63 Evgenii Dadonov
9 Brian Boyle	21 Vincent Trocheck	10 Brett Connolly
77 Frank Vatrano	62 Denis Malgin	68 Mike Hoffman
14 Dominic Toninato	55 Noel Acciari	7 Colton Sceviour
Defense
3 Keith Yandle	5 Aaron Ekblad
19 Michael Matheson	6 Anton Stralman
13 Mark Pysyk	2 Josh Brown
Goalie
72 Sergei Bobrovsky	33 Samuel Montembeault

Game Notes

• Power Play: Flyers (13th), Panthers (4th)
• Penalty Kill: Flyers (8th), Panthers (14th)
• Recent History vs. Panthers
  • Oct. 16, 2018 – Flyers 6, Panthers 5 (F/SO) (at PHI)
  • Nov. 13, 2018 – Panthers 2, Flyers 1 (at PHI)
  • Dec. 29, 2018 – Panthers 2, Flyers 1 (at FLA)
• Flyers Leaders vs. Panthers
  • Shayne Gostisbehere – 10 GP, 3 G, 4 A, 7 P
  • Claude Giroux – 37 GP, 9 G, 15 A, 24 P
  • Travis Konecny – 8 GP, 1 G, 4 A, 5 P
  • Carter Hart – 1 GP, 0-1-0, 2.03 GAA, .944 SV%
• Milestone Watch
  • Jake Voracek needs one goal to reach 200 for his career.
  • Kevin Hayes needs four goals to reach 100 for his career.

Where to Watch
TV: NBC Sports Philadelphia
Radio: 97.5 The Fanatic/97.3 ESPN