GDT: #49| FLYERS at Rangers| Wednesday, January 25, 2017| 8:00 pm ET| TVAS, NBCSN

[MiamiScreamingEagles]

PHILADELPHIA FLYERS (23-19-6, 14-7-3 H, 9-12-3 A ) vs. NEW YORK RANGERS (31-16-1, 14-9-1 H, 17-7-0 A ) ​

BROADCAST INFORMATION​

• Television: TVAS, NBCSN. Mike Emrick (play-by-play), Ed Olczyk (analyst), and Pierre McGuire (Inside-the-Glass analyst).
• Radio: 97.5 The Fanatic https://www.nhl.com/info/team-audio
• Streams: Posting and soliciting links to illegal streams is prohibited. Do not post or inquire about such streams.
• NBC stream: http://www.nbcsports.com/live

GAME PREVIEW, NOTES and STATISTICS​

• Preview: https://www.nhl.com/flyers/news/5-things-flyers-vs-rangers--philadelphia-flyers/c-286096514
• NHL Stats: http://www.nhl.com/ice/teamstats.htm
• Flyers' Stats: http://flyers.nhl.com/club/stats.htm
• Rangers' Stats: http://rangers.nhl.com/club/stats.htm

Team Stats​

Team | GP | Record | Points | Pct. | GF | GA | GF/G | GA/G| PP% | PK% | Shots For | Shots Ag. | FO%
Flyers| 48| 23-19-6| 52| .542| 131| 150 | 2.73| 3.13| 21.4| 80.3| 31.9| 29.1| 51.2
Rangers|48| 31-16-1| 63| .656|165| 126| 3.44| 2.63| 21.1| 82.6| 29.4| 29.1|47.6

TEAMS' WEBSITES​

• Flyers' Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/philadelphiaflyers
• Flyers' Twitter: https://twitter.com/NHLFlyers
• Flyers' Website: http://flyers.nhl.com/index.html
• Rangers' Website: http://rangers.nhl.com/

PHILADELPHIA FLYERS​

FLYERS' ROSTER
Forwards

Player | No. | Pos. | Shot | Height | Weight | Date of Birth | Place of Birth
Pierre-Edouard Bellemare |78 |LW |L |6' 0" |198 |Mar 6, 1985|Le Blanc-Mesnil, FRA
Nick Cousins |25 |C |L |5' 10" |188 |Jul 20, 1993| Belleville, ON, CAN
Sean Couturier |14| C |L |6' 3" |211 |Dec 7, 1992 |Phoenix, AZ, USA
Claude Giroux (C) |28 |C |R |5' 11" |185 |Jan 12, 1988 |Hearst, ON, CAN
Travis Konecny |11 |C |R |5' 10" |175 |Mar 11, 1997| London, ON, CAN
Roman Lyubimov |13| LW |R |6' 2" |207 |Jan 6, 1992 |Tver, RUS
Michael Raffl |12| LW| L| 6' 0"| 200| Dec 1, 1988| Villach, AUT
Matt Read |24| RW |R| 5' 10" |185 |Jun 14, 1986| Ilderton, ON, CAN
Brayden Schenn| 10 |C |L| 6' 1" |195| Aug 22, 1991| Saskatoon, SK, CAN
Wayne Simmonds (A) |17| RW|R| 6' 2" |185| Aug 26, 1988| Scarborough, ON, CAN
Chris VandeVelde |76| C |L |6' 2"| 190 |Mar 15, 1987| Moorhead, MN, USA
Jakub Voracek| 93| RW |L |6' 2" |214| Aug 15, 1989|Kladno, CZE
Dale Weise| 22 |RW |R |6' 2" |206 |Aug 5, 1988| Winnipeg, MB, CAN

Defensemen

Player | No. | Shot | Height | Weight | Date of Birth | Place of Birth
Michael Del Zotto| 15 | L |6' 0" |195 |Jun 24, 1990 |Stouffville, ON, CAN
Shayne Gostisbehere | 53 | L |5' 11" |180 |Apr 20, 1993 |Pembroke Pines, FL, USA
Radko Gudas|3 |R |6' 0" |204 |Jun 5, 1990 |Prague, CZE
Andrew MacDonald |47 | L| 6' 1"| 204 |Sep 7, 1986| Judique, NS, CAN
Brandon Manning |23 | L| 6' 1" |205 |Jun 4, 1990 |Prince George, BC, CAN
Ivan Provorov |9 | L |6' 1"| 201 |Jan 13, 1997 |Yaroslavl, RUS
Nick Schultz |55 | L |6' 1"| 203 |Aug 25, 1982| Strasbourg, SK, CAN
Mark Streit (A) | 32 | L |5' 11" |191 |Dec 11, 1977 |Bern, CHE

Goalies

Player | No. | Height | Weight | Date of Birth | Place of Birth
Steve Mason| 35 | 6' 4" |210 |May 29, 1988 |Oakville, ON, CAN
Michal Neuvirth |30 | 6' 1" |209 |Mar 23, 1988 |Ústí nad Labem, CZE

FLYERS' POSSIBLE LINEUP
Lines

Left Wing | Center | Right Wing
12 - Michael Raffl | 28 - Claude Giroux |93 - Jakub Voracek
11 - Travis Konecny | 10 - Brayden Schenn | 17 - Wayne Simmonds
25 - Nick Cousins |14 - Sean Couturier |24 - Matt Read
76 - Chris VandeVelde | 78 - Pierre-Édouard Bellemare | 13 - Roman Lyubimov

Pairings

Name | Name
9 - Ivan Provorov | 47 - Andrew MacDonald
3 - Radko Gudas| 32 - Mark Streit
23 - Brandon Manning | 53 - Shayne Gostisbehere

Goalies

Name | Name
35 - Steve Mason (likely starter) | 30 - Michal Neuvirth

FLYERS' INJURIES and SCRATCHES

Player | Status | Description
Michael Del Zotto | not available; day-to-day | lower body injury
Nick Schultz| available | could be scratched
Dale Weise| available | could be scratched

FLYERS' POWER PLAY UNITS

Unit | Name | Name | Name | Name | Name
No. 1| Brayden Schenn | Claude Giroux | Wayne Simmonds | Jakub Voracek | Shayne Gostisbehere
No. 2| Travis Konecny | Nick Cousins | Sean Couturier |Mark Streit |Ivan Provorov

NEW YORK RANGERS​

RANGERS POSSIBLE LINEUP
Lines

Left Wing | Center | Right Wing
20 - Chris Kreider | 21 - Derek Stepan | 36 - Mats Zuccarello
61 - Rick Nash | 93 - Mika Zibanejad| 89 - Pavel Buchnevich
12 - Matt Puempel | 10 - J.T. Miller | 40 - Michael Grabner
26 - Jimmy Vesey | 24 - Oscar Lindberg | 73 - Brandon Pirri

Pairings

Name | Name
27 - Ryan McDonagh | 5 - Dan Girardi
22 - Nick Holden| 8 - Kevin Klein
76 - Brady Skjei | 4 - Adam Clendening

Goalies

Name | Name
30 - Henrik Lundqvist (expected starter) |45 -Magnus Hellberg

RANGERS' INJURIES and SCRATCHES

Player | Status | Description
Jesper Fast|day-to-day| upper body injury
Kevin Hayes|out 2-to-3 weeks from Jan. 23| lower body injury
Antti Raanta|injured reserve| lower body injury
Marc Staal |will not play| upper body injury

RANGERS' POWER PLAY UNITS

Unit | Name | Name | Name | Name | Name
No. 1| Chris Kreider | Derek Stepan | Jimmy Vesey |Mats Zuccarello | Ryan McDonagh
No. 2 | Rick Nash | Pavel Buchnevich |Brandon Pirri |Mika Zibanejad |Adam Clendening

RANGERS' ROSTER​

Forwards

No. | Player | Shot | Height | Weight | Date of Birth | Place of Birth
10| J.T. Miller| L| 6-1 |206| Mar 14, 1993| East Palestine, Ohio
12 |Matt Puempel |L| 6-2 | 204 |Jan 24, 1993 | Windsor, Ontario
13| Kevin Hayes |L | 6-5 |227 |May 8, 1992|Boston, Massachusetts
19 |Jesper Fast |R| 6-0 | 188 |Dec 2, 1991| Nassjo, Sweden
20| Chris Kreider |L| 6-3 | 226| Apr 30, 1991|Boxford, Massachusetts
21| Derek Stepan| R| 6-0| 196|Jun 18, 1990 | Hastings, Minnesota
24| Oscar Lindberg| L|6-1 |196|Oct 29, 1991|Skelleftea, Sweden
26 |Jimmy Vesey |L| 6-3| 203 |May 26, 1993 | Boston, Massachusetts
36 |Mats Zuccarello| L| 5-8| 179| Sep 1, 1987| Oslo, Norway
40| Michael Grabner |L| 6-1 |185|Oct 5, 1987| Villach, Austria
61| Rick Nash |L| 6-4 | 220 | Jun 16, 1984| Brampton, Ontario
73| Brandon Pirri |L | 6-0 |183|Apr 10, 1991| Toronto, Ontario
89| Pavel Buchnevich |L| 6-2|178 |Apr 17, 1995 | Cherepovets, Russia
93| Mika Zibanejad |R| 6-2 |222 | Apr 18, 1993 | Stockholm, Sweden

Defensemen

No. | Player | Shot | Height | Weight | Date of Birth | Place of Birth
4| Adam Clendening |R| 6-0 |190|Oct 26, 1992 | Niagara Falls, New York
5| Dan Girardi| R| 6-1 |208 | Apr 29, 1984| Welland, Ontario
8 |Kevin Klein| R|6-1 |202| Dec 13, 1984| Kitchener, Ontario
18| Marc Staal| L| 6-4 |207| Jan 13, 1987| Thunder Bay, Ontario
22| Nick Holden|L| 6-4 |210 |May 15, 1987| St. Albert, Alberta
27| Ryan McDonagh | L| 6-1 |216|Jun 13, 1989 | St. Paul, Minnesota
76| Brady Skjei | L|6-3 |215 | Mar 26, 1994| Lakeville, Minnesota

Goalies

No. | Player | Height | Weight | Date of Birth | Place of Birth
30| Henrik Lundqvist | 6' 1" |188 |Mar 2, 1982 | Are, Sweden
32 |Antti Raanta| 6' 0" |193|May 12, 1989 | Rauma, Finland
45 | Magnus Hellberg | 6' 6"| 209 |Apr 4, 1991 | Uppsala, Sweden

FLYERS vs. RANGERS SERIES HISTORY​

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Regular Season Record

Opponent | W-L-T-OTL | Home | Away
New York Rangers| 121-120-37-9 |69-56-14-6| 52-64-23-3

Playoffs Record

Opponent | Series | W-L | Home | Away
New York Rangers |6-5 |30-24|19-11| 11-13

Regular Season Streaks (unless noted)

Opponent | W-L-OTL | Home | Away
New York Rangers|0-3-2 in the last 5 |0-2-2 in the last 4|1-11-0 in the last 12

FLYERS' UPCOMING SCHEDULE​

http://www.nhl.com/ice/schedulebyseason.htm?team=PHI

Date | Game | Time (ET) | Television (could change)
Thursday, January 26| Toronto @ Philadelphia | 7:00 PM| CSN-PH, SNO
Tuesday, January 31| Philadelphia @ Carolina| 7:00 PM |FS-CR, CSN-PH
Thursday, February 2| Montréal @ Philadelphia| 7:00 PM |CSN-PH, SNE, RDS
Saturday, February 4|Los Angeles @ Philadelphia|1:00 PM|NHLN-US, CSN-PH, FS-W
Monday, February 6| St. Louis @ Philadelphia| 7:00 PM|NBCSN, TVAS, CSN-PH

MEDIA COVERAGE​

Name | Link

Broad Street Hockey​

| http://www.broadstreethockey.com/

Twitter​

| https://twitter.com/BroadStHockey

Bucks County Courier Times​

| http://www.buckscountycouriertimes.com/sports/flyers/

Wayne Fish's Twitter​

| https://twitter.com/waynefish1

Center Ice Philly​

| http://centericephilly.com/

Anthony Mingioni's Twitter​

| http://twitter.com/AnthonyMingioni

Comcast Sports Philadelphia​

| http://www.csnphilly.com/pages/flyers

Tim Panaccio's Twitter​

| https://twitter.com/tpanotchCSN

Courier-Post of South Jersey​

| http://www.courierpostonline.com/sports/flyers

Dave Isaac's Twitter​

| https://twitter.com/davegisaac

Fourth Period, The​

| http://www.thefourthperiod.com/Philadelphia/

David Strehle's Twitter​

| https://twitter.com/DStrehleTFP

HockeyBuzz.com ​

| http://www.hockeybuzz.com/team/Philadelphia-Flyers

Bill Meltzer's Twitter​

| http://twitter.com/billmeltzer

Philadelphia Daily News and Inquirer​

| http://www.philly.com/philly/sports/flyers/

Blog​

| http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/sports/flyers

Sam Carchidi's Twitter​

| http://twitter.com/broadstbull

Sons of Penn​

| http://sonsofpenn.com/

Twitter​

| https://twitter.com/SonsOfPenn

BlueShirt Bulletin ​

| http://blueshirtbulletin.com/

Jim Cerny's Twitter​

| https://twitter.com/JimCerny

New York Daily News ​

| http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/hockey/rangers

Justin Tasch's Twitter​

| https://twitter.com/J_Tasch

New York Post ​

| http://nypost.com/hockey/

Larry Brooks' Twitter​

| http://twitter.com/nyp_brooksie

Brett Cyrgalis' Twitter​

| https://twitter.com/BrettCyrgalis

New York Times ​

| http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/sports/hockey/nationalhockeyleague/newyorkrangers/index.html

Allan Kreda's Twitter​

| https://twitter.com/akreda

Newsday ​

| http://www.newsday.com/sports/hockey/rangers/blue-notes-1.811976

Steve Zipay's Twitter​

| http://twitter.com/stevezipay

SportsNet New York​

| http://snyrangersblog.com/

Adam Rotter's Twitter​

| https://twitter.com/AdamRotter

GAME DAY THREAD MUSIC​

"Rainbow in the Dark" by Dio
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[MiamiScreamingEagles]

Changes will be made when issued Wednesday.

 

[TheKingPin]

Thanks mse.

You look at our lineup and are a playoff team. You look at our and D and take some of that optimism away. Therefore it comes down to the goaltending.

 

[dats81]

Same as last year. Goaltending needs to be excellent to make up for blown coverages and giveaways.

 

[usahockey22flyers]

5-2 nyr

 

[backburner]

finally a normal GDT.
All hail MSE

 

[yukumia]

I don't know that we are a playoff team looking at our lineup. The Rangers top three or four players aren't as good as ours, but they're better everywhere else. I do think the current mix of lines is about as good as we're going to get, until VdV is gone. At least we have three lines that look decent, and play decent together. Which is nice.

I just hope we find a way to win this game. Otherwise here's what Hak's going to do v the Leafs:


Raffl - Schenn - Voracek
Cousins - Couturier - Weise
Konecny - Streit - Simmonds
VandeVelde - Read - Lyubimov

Gudas - MacDonald
Schultz - Gostisbehere
Manning - Del Zotto

Mason
Neuvirth

Giroux, Bellemare, Provorov Healthy Scratches. To Watch and Learn.

 

[bennysflyers16]

Use #BellLetsTalk on your social media today, Bell is donating .05 for every post to mental health awareness.

 

[MiamiScreamingEagles]

Thanks mse.

You look at our lineup and are a playoff team. You look at our and D and take some of that optimism away. Therefore it comes down to the goaltending.

finally a normal GDT.
All hail MSE

You are welcome. I do appreciate the recent creative GDTs if for nothing else to alleviate some of the burdens if not what could be redundancy of past GDTs.

 

[YEM]

and Pierre McGuire (‘Inside-the-Glass" analyst).

drop the "Gl" and this is spot-on

 

[DrinkFightFlyers]

Prediction: this game sets the tone for the rest of the season. Not even a win or a loss, just how they come out and how they play. If they are fired up (which it sounds like they were after that win the other day) and come out swinging, I think they finish the season strong and build off of tonight's game. If they come out and lay and egg, I think the mojo might be gone and it will be a struggle down the stretch.

 

[towe]

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

Nice GDT as always, boss

 

[Curufinwe]

I read he was a healthy scratch on Sunday, but then I also read he came out for warmups and then went back in, so I guess he wasn't healthy.

To be at this point of the season and only have one minor injury on the team is pretty lucky.

 

[Hiesenberg]

I read he was a healthy scratch on Sunday, but then I also read he came out for warmups and then went back in, so I guess he wasn't healthy.

To be at this point of the season and only have one minor injury on the team is pretty lucky.

Unless you hoped some players went down and we could see some kids.

One could argue its unlucky that the bad players that Hakstol keeps playing stay very healthy and play and do nothing. lol

 

[Curufinwe]

I mean, if something minor happened tonight that forced Hakstol to put Weise at 4LW on Thursday and remake the top PK unit I would not be upset.

 

[sobrien]

I mean, if something minor happened tonight that forced Hakstol to put Weise at 4LW on Thursday and remake the top PK unit I would not be upset.

like a VandeVelde for McDavid type of minor happening?

I'd be cool with it...

 

[Flyerfan4life]

i suppose we are getting the king Henrik show tonite as usual ???

 

[SolidSnakeUS]

Time to be lit up.

 

[Curufinwe]

Time to be lit up.

The new season of Suits is starting tonight.

 

[SolidSnakeUS]

Really never watched the show. I still need to watch last week's Blacklist.

 

[Striiker]

The new season of Suits is starting tonight.

Good show for the most part.

 

[Rebels57]

Thankfully I have my own hockey game tonight and wont be tempted to suffer throught this one. I am, however, attending tomorrow nights game for free!

 

[SaveHextall]

I'll be there tonight.

Losing 11 of our last 12 in there really sucks and is a far cry from the late 90's early 00's where we owned the Garden.

Hoping we come up big tonight.

 

[Rebels57]

I'll be there tonight.

Losing 11 of our last 12 in there really sucks and is a far cry from the late 90's early 00's where we owned the Garden.

Hoping we come up big tonight.

The last time we handled the Rangers well was also the last time we had a proven, quality coach.