GDT: #13 | FLYERS (A) vs. Capitals (H) | Sunday, Feb. 7, 2021 | 12:00 pm ET | NBC, SN, TVAS

[MiamiScreamingEagles]

WASHINGTON CAPITALS (6-2-3) vs. PHILADELPHIA FLYERS (7-3-2)

BROADCAST INFORMATION

• Television: NBC [John Forslund, Eddie Olczyk, Brian Boucher] SN, TVAS
• Radio: 97.5 The Fanatic unless a change to 93.3 WMMR - Everything That Rocks!
• Flyers 24/7: Flyers Radio 24/7
• Streams: Do not post or request any streams or links to unauthorized sites.
• Online Streaming: nbcsportsphiladelphia.com and the MyTeams app by NBC Sports

TEAMS' WEBSITES

• Flyers' Website: Official Philadelphia Flyers Website
• Capitals' Website: Official Washington Capitals Website

GAME PREVIEW, NOTES and STATISTICS

• Preview: Caps Face Flyers at High Noon on Sunday (nhl.com)
• NHL Stats: NHL.com - Stats
• Flyers' Stats: Philadelphia Flyers Stats | 2020-2021
• Capitals' Stats: Washington Capitals Stats | 2020-2021

TEAMS' STATISTICS

Team	GP	Record	Pts	Home	Away	GF	GA	PP%	PK%	FO%
Capitals	11	6-2-3	15	4-1-1	2-1-2	40	38	34.6	79.5	46.7
Flyers	12	7-3-2	16	5-2-1	2-1-1	39	36	23.7	72.1	50.8

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PHILADELPHIA FLYERS

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Possible Lineup
Lines

25 James van Riemsdyk -- 14 Sean Couturier -- 93 Jake Voracek
28 Claude Giroux -- 19 Nolan Patrick -- 11 Travis Konecny
23 Oskar Lindblom -- 21 Scott Laughton -- 86 Joel Farabee
12 Michael Raffl -- 13 Kevin Hayes -- 62 Nicolas Aube-Kubel​

Pairings

9 Ivan Provorov -- 5 Phil Myers
53 Shayne Gostisbehere -- 61 Justin Braun
8 Robert Hägg -- 56 Erik Gustafsson​

Goalies

37 Brian Elliott
79 Carter Hart (starter)
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Power Plays

PP1: Nolan Patrick, Jake Voracek, Oskar Lindblom, James van Riemsdyk, Erik Gustafsson
PP2: Travis Konecny, Kevin Hayes, Claude Giroux, Shayne Gostisbehere, Ivan Provorov
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Injuries and Scratches

3 Mark Friedman (healthy) could be scratched as a spare defenseman.
6 Travis Sanheim (undisclosed) will not play.
10 Andy Andreoff (taxi squad) is a spare forward.
39 Nate Prosser (taxi squad) is a spare defenseman.
48 Morgan Frost (injured list) has a dislocated left shoulder and is expected to have surgery in February. He was injured January 19.
49 Alex Lyon (taxi squad) is a spare goalie.
82 Connor Bunnaman (healthy) could be scratched as a spare forward.​

WASHINGTON CAPITALS

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Possible Lineup
Lines

8 Alex Ovechkin --19 Nicklas Backstrom -- 43 Tom Wilson
14 Richard Panik -- 20 Lars Eller -- 28 Daniel Carr
62 Carl Hagelin -- 26 Nic Dowd -- 21 Garnet Hathaway
73 Conor Sheary -- 16 Philippe Maillet -- 10 Daniel Sprong​

Pairings

33 Zdeno Chara -- 74 John Carlson
4 Brenden Dillon -- 57 Trevor van Riemsdyk
9 Dmitry Orlov -- 3 Nick Jensen​

Goalies

31 Craig Anderson
41 Vitek Vanecek (could start)​

Power Plays

PP1: Nicklas Backstrom, Tom Wilson, Alex Ovechkin, Lars Eller, John Carlson
PP2: Richard Panik, TBD, Daniel Sprong, Zdeno Chara, Dmitry Orlov ​

Injuries and Scratches

2 Justin Schultz (injury) is day-to-day with a facial injury resulting from being hit by a puck.
6 Michel Kempny (IR) underwent Achilles surgery in October.
13 Jakub Vrana (unavailable) is on virus protocol.
20 Lars Eller (injury) is day-to-day with an upper-body injury resulting from a body check.
23 Michael Sgarbossa (taxi squad) is a spare forward.
30 Ilya Samsonov (unavailable) is on virus protocol.
34 Jonas Siegenthaler (healthy) could be scratched as a spare defenseman.
35 Henrik Lundqvist (IR) had open heart surgery.
47 Beck Malenstyn (IR) underwent Achilles surgery in December.
64 Brian Pinho (taxi squad) has an undisclosed injury.
77 T.J. Oshie (injury) is day-to-day due to an upper body injury.
92 Evgeny Kuznetsov (unavailable) is on virus protocol.​

FLYERS' UPCOMING SCHEDULE [subject to change]

Date	Opponent	Time (ET)	Television
Tuesday, Feb. 9	Philadelphia at Washington	6:00 pm	ESPN+, SN360, SNE, SNO, TVAS, NBCSWA, NBCSP
Thursday, Feb. 11	New Jersey at Philadelphia	7:00 pm	ESPN+, NBCSP, MSG
Saturday, Feb. 13	New Jersey at Philadelphia	7:00 pm	NBCSP, MSG+ 2
Sunday, Feb. 14	Philadelphia at NY Rangers	6:00 pm	MSG, NBCSP
Thursday, Feb. 18	Philadelphia at NY Rangers	7:00 pm	TVAS, NBCSP, MSG
Sunday, Feb. 21	Philadelphia at Boston (Lake Tahoe, NV)	3:00 pm	NBC, SN, SN1, TVAS

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FROM THE PAST

Washington 4 at Philadelphia 5 (OT) March 2, 2014
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GAME DAY THREAD MUSIC

"Washington is Next" by Megadeth
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[Hollywood Cannon]

Ugh, so soon?

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

 

[Rebels57]

 

[Striiker]

HOW MANY MORE OF THESE UNTIL WE'RE FREE

 

[FlyerNutter]

 

[Hurricane28]

Working nights. No way im getting up for this. Would rather go play in the snow anyway

 

[TheKingPin]

Especially if Myers is out, I want Sanheim out there 25-27 god damn minutes. He’s playing the best of his career so far.

Keep Gus on the top PP.

Patrick - shoot the god damn puck more.

TK - pick the god damn corners like you are paid to do.

G - back check or get your center to back check. Not sure if I would ever expect G to out battle Marchand, but two games I’ve watching comfortably while they score.

I would rest Lindblom.

JVR and Farabee - keep it going.

Coaching wasn’t as horrible as it has been. But that’s not why we lost the last game.

 

[ellja3]

What are the odds they won't ruin this matinee for us Europeans, huh, @kudymen ?

I assume no updates on Myers? If he's out, play Sanheim as much as he's capable.

 

[kudymen]

What are the odds they won't ruin this matinee for us Europeans, huh, @kudymen ?

I assume no updates on Myers? If he's out, play Sanheim as much as he's capable.

More like what are the odds there is a party and I am about to miss this? :/ ****

 

[BiggE]

Oh goody

 

[BiggE]

Dear Chuck,

Please grow a set of working testes and fire Michel. Hey, if AV quits in protest, it’s a bonus!

 

[ellja3]

Dear Chuck,

Please grow a set of working testes and fire Michel. Hey, if AV quits in protest, it’s a bonus!

I don't understand how they can look at the PP this season and think - ''yup, looks fine''. Those few JVR redirects have to be ignored in the big picture. It's skill of a player, not success of PP system (LOL, is there any!?)

 

[macleish1974]

Beethoven as Art as Aesthetic Experience as Celebration of Life as cited T. Adorno, 1967, Aesthetic Theory

The Keggs as Self-Identification as Existential Experience as Celebration of Strife as cited anonymously on the bathroom wall at Brownie's Bar in downtown Lansing, Michigan, 1967

The Flyers at this point I cannot cite either as inspiration.

 

[bennysflyers16]

Myers almost certainly is out
Patrick will stink
Elliot will stink
Oskar will stink
TK will stink
Hogg and Gus will stink

This will be another multi goal licking.

 

[deadhead]

Looking at metrics, I don't believe in Corsi anymore, I'm starting to think SCF% is a better gauge, whereas HDCF is more about "mistakes" and taking advantage of them, SCF is an alternative to Corsi as a general measure of play (i.e. Corsi awards you for just shooting no matter how bad the shot or easily blocked), SCF accounts for quantity of scoring chances, not just shots. HDCF accounts for quality. That is, if your SCF > HDCF, you probably need to play with more focus.

By these measures, Patrick, G and Farabee have been our best 5x5 forwards

SCF% - HDCF%

Patrick 50.64% - 50.20%
G 50.61% - 59.71%
Farabee 48.04% - 52.03%

TK 51.84% - 46.95%
JVR 48.80% - 46.65%
Lindblom 47.24% - 42.73%
Hayes 44.01% - 54.14%
Voracek 38.52% - 48.99%

Bunnaman 45.56% - 34.01%
NAK 44.68% - 39.53%
Raffl 40.91% - 40.91%
Laughton 40.03% - 40.17%


Myers 51.32% - 58.72%
Sanheim 49.39% - 51.81%
Ghost 47.09% - 59.18%

Provorov 41.33% - 44.98%

Hagg 46.43% - 35.92%
Gus 46.18% - 39.74%
Braun 41.28% - 35.41%

 

[BackToTheBrierePatch]

I think we are making progress in 5 on 5 play. Defense in our own zone is getting better as well 5 on 5. Special teams are still a mess and that needs to get figured out.
Again, it would be nice to have Couturier back tomorrow. Hopefully Tuesday.

 

[ellja3]

Myers almost certainly is out
Patrick will stink
Elliot will stink
Oskar will stink
TK will stink
Hogg and Gus will stink

This will be another multi goal licking.

No, they will play like s***, yet manage to go into 3rd period either w game tied or one goal lead, then crap in our hearts mid3per with something similarly awful to 2 goals against in 3osecs (last game) or godawful/controversial penalties taken (the game before). Sounds more fitting/likely.

 

[Tripod]

We have a top 10 PP right now

We are tied for 5th most 5vs5 goals despite having no sNiPeR

....our PK is bottom 5

Hart 4-2-2, .898 SV%, 3.42 GAA
Elliott 3-1, 929 SV%, 2.19 GAA

Hart SV% at ES .922....on the PK .750
Elliott SV% at ES .926....on the PK .931

 

[Here4ThaLids]

My condolences to the mods. Might want to make a sticky.

NHL.com Media Site

 

[deadhead]

We have a top 10 PP right now

We are tied for 5th most 5vs5 goals despite having no sNiPeR

....our PK is bottom 5

Hart 4-2-2, .898 SV%, 3.42 GAA
Elliott 3-1, 929 SV%, 2.19 GAA

Hart SV% at ES .922....on the PK .750
Elliott SV% at ES .926....on the PK .931

This team hasn't played well, but I'm very encouraged by the Boston games, after a bad start in the first game, I think they played their best 5 periods of the season against 1 of the 2 top teams in the league, they went toe to toe with Boston without Couts.

We're 31st in CF%, 29th in xGF%, 28th in SCF%, and 22nd in HDCF% - we're consistently bad.
PP is 11th in GF/60, 20th in xGF/60
PK is 28th in GA/60, 19th in xGA/60

Hart GAA 3.42, xGA/60 2.54
Elliott GAA 2.19, xGA/60 2.37

The bad news is we really sucked to start the season, the good news is despite that we're 7-3-2.
Hart should turn it around, Couts returns in a week, Myers should be back Sunday (cross fingers).

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

My condolences to the mods. Might want to make a sticky.

NHL.com Media Site

Dear NHL,

Please cancel the season.

Yours in Christ,
My Eyeballs

 

[ajgoal]

 

[kudymen]

Update: I'm not drunk yet

 

[BringBackHakstol]

The reversion to mean continues