GDT: #7: Golden Knights at FLYERS, Monday, Oct. 21, 2019, 7:00 pm ET

[MiamiScreamingEagles]

VEGAS GOLDEN KNIGHTS (6-3-0) vs. PHILADELPHIA FLYERS (2-3-1)

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BROADCAST INFORMATION

• Television: NHLN, TVAS, NBCSP, ATTSN-RM
• Radio: 97.5 FM 97.5 The Fanatic unless a change to 93.3 FM 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' Facebook: Philadelphia Flyers
• Flyers' Twitter: Philadelphia Flyers (@NHLFlyers) | Twitter
• Flyers' Website: Official Philadelphia Flyers Website
• Golden Knights' Website: Official Vegas Golden Knights Website

GAME PREVIEW, NOTES and STATISTICS

• Preview: 5 Things: Flyers vs. Golden Knights
• NHL Stats: NHL.com - Stats
• Flyers' Stats: Philadelphia Flyers Stats | 2019-2020
• Golden Knights' Stats: Vegas Golden Knights Stats | 2019-2020

TEAMS' STATISTICS

Team	GP	Record	Pts	Home	Away	GF	GA	PP%	PK%	FO%
Golden Knights	9	6-3-0	12	3-2-0	3-1-0	31	21	30.0	94.3	48.8
Flyers	6	2-3-1	5	2-1-0	0-2-1	15	18	25.0	73.3	56.7

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PHILADELPHIA FLYERS

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Possible Lineup
Lines

28 Claude Giroux - 14 Sean Couturier - 11 Travis Konecny
23 Oskar Lindblom - 13 Kevin Hayes - 93 Jake Voracek
25 James van Riemsdyk - 21 Scott Laughton - 49 Joel Farabee
12 Michael Raffl - 24 Mikhail Vorobyev - 44 Chris Stewart​

Pairings

9 Ivan Provorov - 15 Matt Niskanen
6 Travis Sanheim - 61 Justin Braun
53 Shayne Gostisbehere - 8 Robert Hagg​

Goalies

79 Carter Hart
37 Brian Elliott will start.​

Power Plays

PP1: Claude Giroux, Joel Farabee, James van Riemsdyk, Jake Voracek, Shayne Gostisbehere
PP2: Oskar Lindblom, Sean Couturier,Travis Konecny, Ivan Provorov, Matt Niskanen
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Injuries and Scratches

18 Tyler Pitlick (healthy) could be scratched.
19 Nolan Patrick (migraine disorder, Sep. 26). He has been placed on injured/non-roster and is out indefinitely. He has since skated in a non-contact jersey beginning Oct. 12.
55 Sam Morin (healthy) could be scratched
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MEDIA CONTACTS
Athletic, The

Web site -- Philadelphia Flyers - News, Scores, Schedule, Roster - The Athletic
Alexander Appleyard's Twitter -- Alexander Appleyard (@avappleyard) | Twitter
Charlie O'Connor's Twitter -- Charlie O'Connor (@charlieo_conn) | Twitter​

Courier Post of South Jersey

Web site -- Flyers - NHL - News - CourierPostOnline.com
Dave Isaac's Twitter -- Dave Isaac (@davegisaac) | Twitter​

Hockey Buzz

Web site -- HockeyBuzz.com - NHL Rumors
Bill Meltzer's Twitter -- Bill Meltzer (@billmeltzer) | Twitter​

NBC Sports Philadelphia

Web site -- https://www.nbcsports.com/philadelphia/flyers​

NHL.com

Adam Kimelman's Twitter -- Adam Kimelman (@NHLAdamK) | Twitter​

Philadelphia Daily News and Inquirer

Web site -- Philadelphia Flyers
Sam Carchidi's Twitter -- Sam Carchidi (@BroadStBull) | Twitter​

VEGAS GOLDEN KNIGHTS

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Possible Lineup
Lines

81 Jonathan Marchessault - 71 William Karlsson - 19 Reilly Smith
67 Max Pacioretty - 26 Paul Stastny - 6 Mark Stone
73 Brandon Pirri - 21 Cody Eakin - 9 Cody Glass
28 William Carrier - 92 Tomas Nosek - 75 Ryan Reaves​

Pairings

3 Brayden McNabb - 27 Shea Theodore
15 Jon Merrill - 22 Nick Holden
45 Jake Bischoff - 5 Deryk Engelland​

Goalies

29 Marc-Andre Fleury
35 Oscar Dansk will start.​

Injuries and Scratches

14 Nicolas Hague (healthy) could be scratched.
30 Malcolm Subban (lower body, Oct. 9) is day-to-day.
88 Nate Schmidt (lower body) is on injured reserve.
89 Alex Tuch (upper body) is on injured reserve. ​

MEDIA CONTACTS
Athletic, The

Web site -- The Athletic
Jesse Granger's Twitter -- Jesse Granger (@JesseGranger_) | Twitter​

Fox Sports 98.9/1340

Web site -- Vegas Golden Knights​

Knights On Ice

Web site -- Vegas Golden Knights Schedule, Roster, News and Rumors | Knights On Ice​

Las Vegas Review-Journal

Web site -- Golden Knights/NHL – Las Vegas Review-Journal
David Schoen's Twitter -- David Schoen (@DavidSchoenLVRJ) | Twitter​

Las Vegas Sun

Web site -- Vegas Golden Knights - Las Vegas Sun News​

Sin Bin.Vegas

Twitter -- SinBin.vegas (@SinBinVegas) | Twitter​

Vegas Golden Knights

Gary Lawless' Twitter -- gary lawless (@garylawless) | Twitter​

FLYERS' UPCOMING SCHEDULE [subject to change]

Date	Opponent	Time (ET)	Television
Thursday, October 24	at Chicago	8:30 PM	ESPN+, NBCSCH, NBCSP
Saturday, October 26	(H) Columbus	7:00 PM	NBCSP, FS-O
Sunday, October 27	at NY Islanders (L.I.)	7:00 PM	MSG+, NBCSP

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FROM THE PAST

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GAME DAY THREAD MUSIC

"Neon Knights" by Black Sabbath
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[MiamiScreamingEagles]

There is no scheduled practice on Sunday.

 

[flyerslducks]

great...not looking forward to seeing us play vegas. Their speed will give us fits. This could easily be 5 losses in a row. Not good. Hopefully they wake tf up and start scoring. Can we play with the lead for a few games in a row please? I can't remember the last time that happened

 

[SolidSnakeUS]

Are we going to bring in the young kids or still go with the same shit? Who wants to bet that Morin isn't going to play?

 

[lakai17]

Are we going to bring in the young kids or still go with the same ****? Who wants to bet that Morin isn't going to play?

Was just going to mention Morin, sitting all season when he is finally healthy.

So...will Morin sit once again...

 

[MorgantiDrinksBlood]

We need to bring one of Farabee or Frost up to spark the team, do f***ing anything...

 

[MacDonald4MVP]

Good game, they tried their best.

 

[marcsson68]

The Flyers of the past 10 years would come up with a good performance against a Play-off team after losses against subpar teams.

 

[Garbage Goal]

We have Tyler Pitlick and Scott Laughton on our third line. That’ll ducking help JVR score. Just shoot me. Apparently our trend of dragging every good D we have with assorted trash continues into this season.

We legit might have the worst third line and bottom six in the league on paper.

 

[Rebels57]

5 years into a rebuild and the bottom 6 is literally the worst its ever been, both on paper and on ice.

Fletcher is a coward.

 

[BiggE]

Farabee, last 4 games, 3 goals and an assist
Frost has 4 points in his last 2 games, generated a ton of shots last night and was the only Phantom to score in the shootout.
Rubtsov has been their best forward all season and was leading the team in scoring going into last nights game and Myers has been their best Dman and is playing on the top pair.

Open your eyes Chuck!

 

[Rebels57]

Live look at Chuck. He's having a good hair day for a change.

 

[CapnZin]

Hey, Guys... it’ll be ok... Lafreniere looks like a nice addition

 

[Rebels57]

Hey, Guys... it’ll be ok... Lafreniere looks like a nice addition

We wont ever pick 1st.

And if we pick 2nd, we will draft another dissapointment. Its how we do things.

 

[Maurice of Orange]

Hey, Guys... it’ll be ok... Lafreniere looks like a nice addition

Byfield, Raymond, Holtz, Perfetti or (D) Drysdale wouldn’t be a bad consolation prize.
If Hart gets buried this season then Yaroslav Askarov could also be in play.

 

[Rebels57]

The Corsi For Rel % for the bottom 6 is hilariously awful.

Also, Sanheim needs to wake the f*** up. Hes been sleepwalking through the last 3 games.

 

[Ghosts Beer]

Why would Morin play? Hagg has done his job & the team has only conceded 22 & 16 shots the last two games. Offense & goaltending are the problems.

 

[Hollywood Cannon]

#FarabeeOrFlee

 

[Hollywood Cannon]

5 years into a rebuild and the bottom 6 is literally the worst its ever been, both on paper and on ice.

Fletcher is a coward.

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We’re not 5 years in, remember the first two didn’t count!

 

[Striiker]

What's insane is that Fletcher is 100% focused on competing and this is what he's going with. He has no excuses... no patience, no rebuilding, no development... he's literally trying his pathetic best to win.

This is his A-team.

 

[TCTC]

This team would look a lot different with Couturier, Hayes, Patrick, Laughton as our center lineup instead of Couturier, Hayes, Laughton, Raffl.
Patrick being hurt ruined our bottom 6.

 

[FlyerNutter]

I kind of disagree that it’s purely on Patrick being hurt.

A big part of it? Sure.

However there is no reason or excuse for some of the bottom 6 slop they are rolling out, and seemingly zero chance at Myers getting in to play unless an injury occurs.

In regards to Myers, they have chosen to go with Braun and Hagg over him. The “safe” players, over a kid that has risk to his game but might actually help move your club past perpetual mediocrity.

Pathetic. Cowardly and outdated veteran favouritism.

 

[CapnZin]

We wont ever pick 1st.

And if we pick 2nd, we will draft another dissapointment. Its how we do things.

 

[deadhead]

Common sense.

Myers wasn't ready, are we forgetting that he was gifted the #6 spot and screwed the pooch? This isn't a guy who had to win a job, just not lose it.
Farabee and Frost are 19 and 20, both are undersized, both have no pro experience. Starting in the AHL isn't the worst thing in the world.
Rubtsov started this year with 30 pro games under his belt and missing more than a full season due to injury, don't forget, he's only 21.

They'll all be up at some point, probably within the next month or two if they continue to play this well (beware of SSS performances, why do the same people who complain about Twarynski and Bunnaman making the team off SSS performances in camp against NHL players accept SSS performances against AHL players as proof that the top prospects are NHL ready?).

It's not like this team is getting outskated and outshot night after night.
Right now they're in a funk, from the goalie to the top 7 forwards.
AV noted that his stress on defense may have them playing a bit tentative, that's normal with a new scheme, think too much and you'll be half a stride behind, the only cure is to play through to the point where it becomes second nature.

 

[bennysflyers16]

Why would Morin play? Hagg has done his job & the team has only conceded 22 & 16 shots the last two games. Offense & goaltending are the problems.

Because Morin coming in takes Stewie out and adds Farabee. These dunces want a knuckle dragger vs Reaves, well Morin accomplishes that while removing the worst skater in the nhl.