The Dave Hakstol era gets underway tonight in Allentown in a unique manner. While Hakstol coaches the Flyers at the PPL Center, Joe Mullen will coach a separate squad of Flyers against another squad of Islanders at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn.
The puck drops for both games at 7 p.m.
Flyers fans in Allentown will get to see established stars as Claude Giroux and Jakub Voracek and exciting young talent like Ivan Provorov and Travis Konecny.
In Brooklyn, Philadelphia will have lineup mainstays Brayden Schenn, Wayne Simmonds and Sean Couturier.
On the Islanders side of things, Arthur Staple of Newsday released the Islanders forward lines for the game in Allentown this morning:
#Isles forwards at Lehigh Valley: Boulton-Cizikas-Halmo, Florek-Wright-Beck, Dal Colle-Quine-Collberg, Vaive-Beauvillier-Holmstrom.
— Arthur Staple (@StapeNewsday) September 21, 2015
#Isles D/G at Lehigh Valley: de Haan-Graham, Strait-Mayfield, Czuczman-Pulock. Greiss/Gibson in goal.
— Arthur Staple (@StapeNewsday) September 21, 2015
In Brooklyn, The Islanders will have John Tavares, Josh Bailey and Jaroslav Halak, Aamong others.
Flyers making debuts tonight: Konecny, Provorov, Neuvirth, Bardreau, Ouellette (Allentown) In Brooklyn: Aube-Kubel, Conner, LaBarbera, Gudas, Among others
Where To Watch:
TV: CSN (Allentown game only)
Radio: 1470 AM Fox Sports Radio Lehigh Valley (Allentown), 97.5 The Fanatic (Brooklyn)
Brent Baldwin is Lehigh Valley Phantoms beat writer for Flyerdelphia. Follow him on Twitter @BBFlyerdelphia.
