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Capitals(3-1-0) @ Flyers(1-3-1) Preview Flyers' Lines:
Forwards:
74 Owen Tippett - 25 Ryan Poehling - 39 Matvei Michkov
71 Tyson Foerster - 48 Morgan Frost - 11 Travis Konecny
86 Joel Farabee - 14 Sean Couturier - 10 Bobby Brink
44 Nicolas Deslauriers - 27 Noah Cates - 19 Garnet Hathaway

Extra forward:17 Jett Luchanko
Excused from practice: 21 Scott Laughton

Defensemen:
8 Cam York - 6 Travis Sanheim
24 Nick Seeler - 9 Jamie Drysdale
5 Egor Zamula - 55 Rasmus Ristolainen

Extra defenseman: 77 Erik Johnson

Goalie:
33 Samuel Ersson
82 Ivan Fedotov

PP1: Drysdale, Tippett, Frost, Konecny, Michkov
PP2: Zamula, Farabee, Poehling, Couturier, Brink

Officials:
Referees:
Frederick L'Ecuyer
Francis Charron
Linesmen:
Matt MacPherson
Julien Fournier

TV: ESPN

Flyers' still paying the price for the ridiculous decision to start the season with that 4 game WC trip.

That trip is physically and mentally exhausting. To start a season, you aren't game hardened, you don't have the legs and conditioning you have midway through a season. You can't be on the road out there for that long and come back home and not have to recover.

The LA Kings started off with a seven game road trip and managed to go 3-2-2. An early road trip is no excuse for the results that the Flyers are posting. If the Flyers were 1-4-1 and didn't look this bad for the last fifteen games of last season, it would be a different situation. It's a badly coached and managed club right now. Changes need to be made starting behind the bench. Having the typical TC from hell that Torts thinks is so good didn't help the legs of the players. Constantly changing lines and pairs on the ice kills ay chance to develop continuity. It's a fiasco.