GDT: #80: Maple Leafs at Flyers, Thursday, April 7, 2016, 7:00 pm ET

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PHILADELPHIA FLYERS (39-27-13, 22-10-7 home ) vs. TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS (28-41-11, 14-23-2 away)​

BROADCAST INFORMATION​

• Television: CSN-PH, SNO, NHL.TV
• Radio: https://www.nhl.com/video/embed/c-1000000004
• Streams: Posting and soliciting links to illegal streams is prohibited. Do not post or inquire about such streams.

GAME PREVIEW, NOTES and STATISTICS​

• Preview: http://flyers.nhl.com/gamecenter/en/preview?id=2015021205
• NHL Stats: http://www.nhl.com/ice/teamstats.htm
• Flyers' Stats: http://flyers.nhl.com/club/stats.htm
• Maple Leafs' Stats: http://mapleleafs.nhl.com/club/stats.htm

Team Stats​

Team | GP | Record | Home | Away | L10 | G/G | GA/G | PP%| PK% | PIM/G | S/G | S/A | FO%
Maple Leafs | 80 |28-41-11 |14-18-9| 14-23-2| 4-6-0 |2.34 |2.90 |15.4 |80.9 |9.2 |30.9 |30.3| 50.7
Flyers |79 |39-27-13 |22-10-7 |17-17-6 |5-4-1 |2.53| 2.57 |18.6| 80.4| 12.0 |30.8 |31.1 |50.8

TEAMS' WEBSITES​

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

PHILADELPHIA FLYERS​

FLYERS' ROSTER
Forwards

No. | Player | Pos. | Height | Weight | Date of Birth | Age | Place of Birth
78 | Pierre-Edouard Bellemare | L |6' 0"|198|Mar 6, 1985| 31| Le Blanc-Mesnil, FRA
52 | Nick Cousins | C| 5' 10" | 188 |Jul 20, 1993 | 22| Belleville, ON, Canada
14 |Sean Couturier | C |6' 3" |211 |Dec 7, 1992 |23| Phoenix, AZ, USA
89 |Sam Gagner |C |5' 11" |202 |Aug 10, 1989 |26| London, ON, CAN
28 | Claude Giroux "C"| C| 5' 11" |185 |Jan 12, 1988 |28| Hearst, ON, CAN
21 | Scott Laughton |C |6' 1"| 190| May 30, 1994| 21| Oakville, ON, CAN
12 | Michael Raffl | L |6' 0" |200| Dec 1, 1988 |27| Villach, AUT
24 | Matt Read | R |5' 10" |185| Jun 14, 1986| 29 |Ilderton, ON, CAN
10| Brayden Schenn | C |6' 1" |195| Aug 22, 1991| 24 |Saskatoon, SK, CAN
17| Wayne Simmonds "A" | R| 6' 2" |185 |Aug 26, 1988 |27|Scarborough, ON, CAN
20 | R.J. Umberger |C |6' 2"| 214 |May 3, 1982 |33| Pittsburgh, PA, USA
76 | Chris VandeVelde | C |6' 2" |190| Mar 15, 1987 |29| Moorhead, MN, USA
93 |Jakub Voracek | R |6' 2" |214 |Aug 15, 1989 |26| Kladno, CZE
19 |Jordan Weal | C |5' 10" |179| Apr 15, 1992 |23| North Vancouver, BC, CAN
25 |Ryan White |C |6' 0"| 200| Mar 17, 1988| 28 |Brandon, MB, CAN

Defensemen

No. | Player | Height | Weight | Date of Birth | Age | Place of Birth
15| Michael Del Zotto| 6' 0" |195 |Jun 24, 1990 |25 |Stouffville, ON, CAN
53| Shayne Gostisbehere | 5' 11" |180 |Apr 20, 1993 |22| Pembroke Pines, FL, USA
3 |Radko Gudas |6' 0" |204 |Jun 5, 1990| 25| Prague, CZE
23| Brandon Manning | 6' 1"| 204 |Jun 4, 1990| 25 |Prince George, BC, CAN
47 | Andrew MacDonald | 6' 1"| 205| Sep 7, 1986 |29 | Judique, NS, CAN
82| Evgeny Medvedev | 6' 3"| 187| Aug 27, 1982| 33 |Chelyabinsk, RUS
55| Nick Schultz | 6' 1" |203| Aug 25, 1982| 33 |Strasbourg, SK, CAN
32| Mark Streit "A" | 5' 11" |191 |Dec 11, 1977 |38| Bern, CHE

Goalies

No. | Player | Height | Weight | Date of Birth | Age | Place of Birth
29 | Ray Emery | 6' 2" | 196 | Sep 28, 1982 | 33| Hamilton, ON, CAN
--| Alex Lyon | 6' 1" |201 |Dec 9, 1992 |23| Baudette, MN, USA
35 |Steve Mason | 6' 4" |210 |May 29, 1988 |27 |Oakville, ON, CAN
30 | Michal Neuvirth| 6' 1" |209 |Mar 23, 1988 |28| Ústí nad Labem, CZE

FLYERS' POSSIBLE LINEUP
Lines

Left Wing | Center | Right Wing
93 - Jakub Voracek |28 - Claude Giroux |17 - Wayne Simmonds
10 - Brayden Schenn |14 - Sean Couturier |89 - Sam Gagner
21 - Scott Laughton | 12 - Michael Raffl |24 - Matt Read
76 - Chris VandeVelde | 78 - Pierre-Édouard Bellemare |25 - Ryan White

Pairings

Name | Name
55 - Nick Schultz | 32 - Mark Streit
47 - Andrew MacDonald | 53 - Shayne Gostisbehere
23 - Brandon Manning |3 - Radko Gudas

Goalies

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

FLYERS' INJURIES and SCRATCHES

Player | Status | Description
Nick Cousins |available | could be a healthy scratch
Michael Del Zotto | injured reserve; out 3-to-4 months | left wrist surgery (Feb. 26)
Ray Emery | available | expected to be a healthy scratch
Alex Lyon | available | expected to be a healthy scratch
Evgeny Medvedev| available |could be a healthy scratch
R.J. Umberger | available | expected to be a healthy scratch
Jordan Weal | available | expected to be a healthy scratch

FLYERS' POWER PLAY UNITS

Unit | Name | Name | Name | Name | Name
No. 1| Brayden Schenn | Wayne Simmonds |Claude Giroux | Jakub Voracek |Shayne Gostisbehere
No. 2|Sean Couturier | Ryan White| Sam Gagner | Matt Read |Mark Streit

TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS​

MAPLE LEAFS' POSSIBLE LINEUP
Lines

Left Wing | Center | Right Wing
46 - Tobias Lindberg | 42 - Tyler Bozak | 15 - P.A. Parenteau
38 - Colin Greening | 39 - William Nylander | 37 - Kasperi Kapanen
23 - Brooks Laich |54 - Frederik Gauthier | 40 - Michael Grabner
53 - Sam Carrick | 56 - Byron Froese | 28 - Brad Boyes

Pairings

Name | Name
52 - Martin Marincin | 44 - Morgan Rielly
51 - Jake Gardiner| 20 - Frank Corrado
48 - Andrew Campbell | 29 - TJ Brennan

Goalies

Name | Name
45 - Jonathan Bernier (starter) | 31 - Garret Sparks

MAPLE LEAFS' INJURIES and SCRATCHES

Player | Status | Description
Peter Holland | will not play| upper body
Nathan Horton | will not play | degenerative spine
Matt Hunwick | will not play | hernia surgery
Nazem Kadri |will not play | suspended for cross-checking
Leo Komarov |will not play | lower body
Joffrey Lupul |injured reserve |sports hernia
Milan Michalek |will not play | knee
Stephane Robidas |injured reserve | knee
James Van Riemsdyk |injured reserve | fractured foot

MAPLE LEAFS' POWER PLAY UNITS

Unit | Name | Name | Name | Name | Name
No. 1| Tobias Lindberg | Brooks Laich | Kasperi Kapanen |Morgan Rielly | Tyler Bozak
No. 2| Colin Greening | William Nylander |Brad Boyes |Jake Gardiner | P.A. Parenteau

MAPLE LEAFS' ROSTER
Forwards

No. | Player | Pos. | Height | Weight | Date of Birth | Age | Place of Birth
28| Brad Boyes | R |6' 0" |198 |17 Apr 1982 |33| Mississauga, ON, CAN
42| Tyler Bozak "A" | C| 6' 1" |195| 19 Mar 1986 |29 |Regina, SK, CAN
53 |Sam Carrick | C |6' 0"| 188 |4 Feb 1992 |24| Markham, ON, CAN
56| Byron Froese | C| 6' 0"| 199 |12 Mar 1991 |24| Winkler, MB, CAN
54| Frederik Gauthier | L| 6' 5" | 214 |26 Apr 1995 | 20| Laval, QC, CAN
40| Michael Grabner| R |6' 1" |185 |5 Oct 1987| 28| Villach, AUT
38 |Colin Greening | C |6' 2" |212 |9 Mar 1986 |29 |St. John's, NL, CAN
24| Peter Holland | C |6' 2"| 198| 14 Jan 1991 |25 |Toronto, ON, CAN
--| Nathan Horton | R |6' 2"| 229| 29 May 1985| 30| Welland, ON, CAN
43 | Nazem Kadri | C |6' 0"| 193| 6 Oct 1990 |25| London, ON, CAN
37 |Kasperi Kapanen | R| 6' 0"| 178 |23 Jul 1996 |19| Kuopio, FIN
47 | Leo Komarov | C |5' 11"| 211 |23 Jan 1987 |29| Narva, EST
23 | Brooks Laich | C |6' 2" |200 |23 Jun 1983 |32| Wawota, SK, CAN
46 |Tobias Lindberg | R |6' 3"| 217| 22 Jul 1995 |20| Stockholm, SWE
19 | Joffrey Lupul | L |6' 1" |211| 23 Sep 1983| 32 |Fort Saskatchewan, AB, CAN
18 | Milan Michalek | L |6' 2" |220 |7 Dec 1984 |31 |Jindrichuv Hradec, CZE
39 |William Nylander | C |5' 11" |190 |1 May 1996| 19| Calgary, AB, CAN
15 | Pierre-Alexandre Parenteau| R| 6' 0" |198| 24 Mar 1983| 32| Hull, QC, CAN
21 | James van Riemsdyk | L |6' 3" |217| 4 May 1989| 26 |Middletown, NJ, USA

Defensemen

No. | Player | Height | Weight | Date of Birth | Age | Place of Birth
29| TJ Brennan |6' 1" |216 |3 Apr 1989 |27| Willingboro, NJ, USA
48| Andrew Campbell | 6' 4" |206| 4 Feb 1988 |28| Caledonia, ON, CAN
20 | Frank Corrado | 6' 0"| 195 |26 Mar 1993 |23 |Toronto, ON, CAN
51 | Jake Gardiner | 6' 2" |197| 4 Jul 1990| 25 |Minnetonka, MN, USA
2 | Matt Hunwick "A" | 5' 11" |191 |21 May 1985 |30| Warren, MI, USA
52 | Martin Marincin | 6' 4"| 201 |18 Feb 1992| 24| Kosice, SVK
44 | Morgan Rielly | 6' 1" |214| 9 Mar 1994 |22| Vancouver, BC, CAN
12 | Stephane Robidas | 5' 11" |190 |3 Mar 1977| 39| Sherbrooke, QC, CAN

Goalies

No. | Player | Height | Weight | Date of Birth | Age | Place of Birth
45 | Jonathan Bernier| 6' 0" |184 |7 Aug 1988| 27| Laval, QC, CAN
31 |Garret Sparks | 6' 2"| 207 |28 Jun 1993 |22| Elmhurst, IL, USA

FLYERS vs. MAPLE LEAFS SERIES HISTORY​

Regular Season Record

Opponent | W-L-T-OTL | Home | Away
Toronto Maple Leafs|93-55-22-4 |53-25-8-1| 40-30-14-3

Playoffs Record

Opponent | Series | W-L | Home | Away
Toronto Maple Leafs|5-1 |22-14|14-5| 8-9

Regular Season Streaks (unless noted)

Opponent | W-L-OTL | Home | Away
Toronto Maple Leafs|4-2-1 in the last 7 | 0-1-1 in the last 2 |8-2-1 in the last 11

FLYERS' UPCOMING SCHEDULE​

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

Date | Game | Time (ET) | Television (could change)
Sat, Apr 9, 2016 | Pittsburgh at Philadelphia | 3:00 PM | NBC
Sun, Apr 10, 2016 | Philadelphia at NY Islanders|7:00 PM |TCN-PH, MSG+, NBCSN, SN360

MEDIA COVERAGE​

Name | Link

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

Flyerdelphia​

| http://www.flyerdelphia.com/

Twitter​

| https://twitter.com/Flyerdelphia

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

Leafs' TV ​

| http://mapleleafs.nhl.com/club/page.htm?id=73836

Paul Hendrick's Twitter​

| https://twitter.com/HennyTweets

National Post ​

| http://news.nationalpost.com/tag/toronto-maple-leafs/

David Alter's Twitter​

| https://twitter.com/dalter

Toronto Globe and Mail ​

| http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/hockey/

James Mirtle's Twitter​

| http://twitter.com/mirtle

Toronto Star ​

| http://www.thestar.com/sports/hockey

Kevin McGran's Twitter ​

| http://twitter.com/kevin_mcgran

Toronto Sun​

| http://www.torontosun.com/sports/hockey/mapleleafs

Lance Hornby's Twitter​

| http://twitter.com/sunhornby

TSN Radio 1050 ​

| http://www.tsn.ca/radio/toronto-1050

Mark Masters' Twitter​

| https://twitter.com/markhmasters

Windsor Star ​

| http://windsorstar.com/category/sports/hockey/nhl/toronto-maple-leafs

GAME DAY THREAD MUSIC​

"Eighties" by Killing Joke
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[CutOnDime97]

Must. Win.

 

[Beef Invictus]

At this point I'd be fine with them not being disappointing.

 

[Embiid]

Hopefully we get the last Laff....

 

[SolidSnakeUS]

Win you **** bags.

 

[Swic21]

Absolutely no reason this game should be even close. Leafs are playing pressure free hockey which can be dangerous, but at home, playoffs basically on the line. Blow them out of the water and get some confidence going into the big games this weekend.

 

[dats81]

Win or choke and on to the golf course early.

 

[Adam Warlock]

Absolutely no reason this game should be even close. Leafs are playing pressure free hockey which can be dangerous, but at home, playoffs basically on the line. Blow them out of the water and get some confidence going into the big games this weekend.

Yeah a 5-1 win or something would be nice. But you know itll be a nail biter. Idk what to expect from them after the last 2 games.

 

[tade]

If they don't win this game... season is over. And if that will be the case then players should be really embarrassed about themselves.

They need to show up and destroy Toronto. Absolutely no excuses here.

 

[JXC]

Need depth this time of year, with so many games packed into so few days. Flyers don't have it.

 

[Hiesenberg]

Yup. Secondary scoring dried up. 3rd and 4th lines are wastes again.

 

[hatcher]

Top players need to plays. Pittsburgh and Detroit don't have a problem with there top players getting up for games. This group sucks.

 

[Gsus]

Funny how fast they came down like from 90% chances of making it. I just won't believe that they will let us down, they've played so many months good but when it's time to execute like yesterday they failed a big time.

A loss is no option. No excuses. Just do it.

 

[Hiesenberg]

Oh they'll win tonight. And I think Boston loses. Then we need 1 pt this weekend and we may not get it.

 

[orangecrush8]

I think they win tonight. It's the weekend I'm concerned about.

 

[Newest sens fan]

Make the pp shoot for gods sake. And stop passing to jake on the pp, its always a forced pass that works 1/100 times

 

[orangecrush8]

Yup. Secondary scoring dried up. 3rd and 4th lines are wastes again.

Any line with Sam Gagner is useless at 5 on 5.

I hope he's out tonight.

 

[Curufinwe]

Time for a big shakeup.

Raffl-Giroux-Voracek
Read-Couturier-Schenn
Laughton-Cousins-Simmonds
Bellemare-Weal-Gagner

White and VdV benched as they had the lowest ES TOI last night.

 

[Hiesenberg]

That line is a drag. Read and Gagner are zeroes right now. It sucks.

 

[flyersfan018]

If they can't beat the Leafs they don't deserve the playoffs.

 

[Danko]

Going to this one, agreed with all the above - worried about this weekend.

They need to get the secondary scoring going again, clean up the turnovers, win the board battles, and send Matt Read to the island from Lost.

Don't agree with all the sentiment about Giroux. Simmonds and Schenn have been awful the last couple games. Jake looks just completely off his game.

Bring Laughton in, Bench Read.

Anyone suggesting Stolarz plays tonight is crazy. We need the win.

 

[thelos]

Make the pp shoot for gods sake. And stop passing to jake on the pp, its always a forced pass that works 1/100 times

It's too easy to defend, Nobody needs to cover Jake and they just overload on G and Ghost. Almost be better to have Streit back instead of Voracek.

Read is definitely still playing better than Gagner

 

[LeafsNation149]

Hope you guys win today

 

[Curufinwe]

It's too easy to defend, Nobody needs to cover Jake and they just overload on G and Ghost. Almost be better to have Streit back instead of Voracek.

Did the top PP unit score a single goal while Voracek was out?

 

[StandingCow]

Thank god I didn't go to the redwings game.... going tonight in one of the suites. They had BETTER show up and win....