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With James van Riemsdyk expected to return to the lineup Thursday night against the New Jersey Devils, the team looks forward to his scoring abilities and what he can bring to a struggling power play.

With the Philadelphia Flyers recent struggles, the team is hoping to start something big after a 3-2 win against the Anaheim Ducks.

Masked coaches, the Tampa Bay Lightning set an NHL record and trouble in LA? These are all topics in this week’s tour Around the NHL.

In this week’s Around the NHL, an NHL rookie takes a mauling, two join the 1,000-games club and looking at the Toronto Maple Leafs red-hot start.

This week, teams combined for more than a dozen goals in three different games, while one team still hasn’t found the back of the net. Meanwhile, a new Swedish hope is off to a roaring start in British Columbia, while an old legend got some bad news about his knee down in California.

As teams ready-up their rosters for the regular season, let’s take a final look around the league before the games start to count.

The first preseason game of the NHL season happened at 2:30 a.m. ET. The game was held in Shenzhen, China, the first of two games between the Boston Bruins and Calgary Flames in the preseason taking place in China. That and more in Around the NHL.

Erik Karlsson is finally traded, Tyler Seguin signs mega-deal and Steve Yzerman steps down as Lightning GM. More about these stories in Around the NHL.

The guys are back to preview training camp and the preseason. They take a look back at the Rookie Game on Wednesday, discuss prospects, goaltending and some big stories around the NHL this week.

Once a Flyers prospect that flew under the radar, 2016 sixth-round pick Tanner Laczynski has turned heads and should be on the radar now.

On Monday, the Flyers open rookie camp and Phil Myers is among the participants. But for him, rookie camp and the subsequent training camp to follow will take on a new meaning with a possible roster spot on the line.

Flyers defenseman Andrew MacDonald suffered a lower-body injury during an offseason workout and will be out for six weeks, according to GM Ron Hextall.

The guys are back to look back on the offseason, the impact on the James van Riemsdyk signing, prospects they are watching in training camp and expectations for the upcoming season.

In total, the Flyers will have 62 of their 82 games televised on NBCSP and eight more broadcast on NBCSP+.

The Flyers already have so many young star prospects coming through their system, a system that is already near the top of the league, with the likes of Morgan Frost and Carter Hart. Isaac Ratcliffe could be another player that can help the Flyers in the future, a depth guy who could potentially be on the Flyers sooner rather than later.

Ron Hextall and Flyers scouts have done very well in the past couple years on finding value and good young talent later in the first round. 19th overall pick Jay O’Brien could soon be another example of that.

Willie O’Ree, Gary Bettman, Martin Brodeur, Martin St. Louis, Alexander Yakushev and Jayna Hefford are being inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame as members of the 2018 class.

After the career year Couturier had in 2017-18 season, putting up new career highs in points, solidifying himself as the first-line center, and continuing to be a shutdown force, not to mention being a finalist for the Selke Trophy, could we see the same from him in the 2018-19 season and for the rest of his career?

The Washington Capitals are heading to the Stanley Cup Final after a 4-0 win in Game 7 on Wednesday night.

The success of the Vegas Golden Knights puts a sharper lens on a potential Seattle expansion draft in 2020, one in which the Flyers stand to lose a valuable asset.

The expansion team that could continues a remarkable journey in their inaugural season. The Vegas Golden Knights continue to write an amazing script, as they defeated the Winnipeg Jets in Game 5, 2-1, to win the series, 4-1, and advance to the Stanley Cup Final.

After two games in the Eastern Conference Final, the Washington Capitals have stormed out to a 2-0 series lead, putting them two wins away from reaching their first Stanley Cup Final since 1998. In the Western Conference Final, the Winnipeg Jets and Vegas Golden Knights split the first two games of the series in Winnipeg as the series heads to Las Vegas.

Round 2 of the Stanley Cup Playoffs came to a close with the Vegas Golden Knights, Tampa Bay Lightning, Washington Capitals and Winnipeg Jets advancing to the Conference Finals.

While it is hard to imagine a scenario where the Flyers take no penalties during the series against the Pittsburgh Penguins, their penalty kill is going to have to come through for them.

With one week left in the regular season, the Stanley Cup Playoff picture is starting to take shape with more and more teams clinching their spots by the day.

Flyers All-Star Claude Giroux scored a goal, but the Metropolitan Division was defeated by the Atlantic Division, 7-4, in the semi-final round. The Pacific Division defeated the Central Division, 5-2, to advance to the final as well. In the final, the Pacific defeated the Atlantic, 5-2, to win the All-Star Game.

Several teams are off to strong starts on the young 2017-18 season with four wins in their first five games, including a few surprise teams and the newest NHL franchise.

It was a memorable first week of the 2017-18 season for the NHL, with Alex Ovechkin off to a historical start, the Vegas Golden Knights opening their season strong and ageless wonder Jaromir Jagr returning for a 24th NHL season.

With NHL training camps and the preseason underway, let’s highlight some of the most and least exciting moments to come in the upcoming hockey se