GDT: Pre-7: Rangers 4 at FLYERS 2, Thursday, Sept. 27, 2018, 7:00 p.m. ET

[MiamiScreamingEagles]

NEW YORK RANGERS (2-2-1)vs PHILADELPHIA FLYERS (3-2-1)

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BROADCAST INFORMATION

• Television: NHLN, NBCSP+, MSG
• Radio: 97.5 The Fanatic
• Flyers 24/7: Flyers Radio 24/7
• Streams: Do not post or request any streams or links to unauthorized sites.

TEAMS' WEBSITES

• Flyers' Facebook: Security Check Required
• Flyers' Twitter: Philadelphia Flyers (@NHLFlyers) | Twitter
• Flyers' Website: Official Philadelphia Flyers Website
• Rangers' Website: Official New York Rangers Website

GAME PREVIEW, NOTES and STATISTICS

• Preview: PRE-GAME: Hart to Start, Familiar Line
• NHL Stats: NHL.com - Stats
• Flyers' Stats: Philadelphia Flyers Stats | 2017-2018
• Rangers' Stats: New York Rangers Stats | 2017-2018

TEAMS' STATISTICS (incomplete)

Teams	Games	Record	Points	Home	Away	GF	GA	PPG	PK%	FO%	Save%	PIM
NYR	5	2-2-1	5	1-1-1	1-1-0	17	21	6			.856	62
Flyers	6	3-2-1	7	1-1-1	2-1-0	19	16	6			.902	61

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PHILADELPHIA FLYERS

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Possible Lineup
Lines

JVR-Patrick-Voracek
Lindblom-Vorobyev-Twarynski
Raffl-Laughton-Knight
Goulbourne-Weal-Weise​

Pairings

Provorov-Gostisbehere
MacDonald-Gudas
Sanheim-Folin​

Goalies

Hart/Stolarz​

Injuries and Scratches

Sean Couturier (F) has a right knee injury (Aug, 22) but could play in Pre-8 at Boston.
Alex Lyon (G) has a lower body injury, speculated as a groin pull, and will be out four weeks from Sept. 20.
Sam Morin (D) suffered a torn ACL in his right knee during the AHL playoffs (May 2018). He could return Feb 2019.
Michal Neuvirth (G) has a lower body injury which has been speculated as a groin pull (Sept. 22). No timetable for his return has been issued although he is not expected to be ready for the season opener.
Travis Sanheim (D) was expected to miss about one week from Sept. 17 due to an upper body injury speculated as shoulder. He could return for this game.
Wayne Simmonds (F) had surgery May 1 to repair a pelvis tear on his right side and a torn abdominal muscle on his left side. He could return for opening night if not sooner.​

MEDIA CONTACTS
Courier-Post of South Jersey

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

HockeyBuzz.com

Web site -- http://www.hockeybuzz.com/team/Philadelphia-Flyers
Bill Meltzer's Twitter -- Bill Meltzer (@billmeltzer) | Twitter​

NBC Sports Philadelphia

Web site -- Flyers
John Boruk's Twitter -- John Boruk (@johnborukNBCS) | Twitter​

Philadelphia Daily News and Inquirer

Web site -- Philly.com Flyers
Sam Carchidi's Twitter -- Sam Carchidi (@BroadStBull) | Twitter​

NEW YORK RANGERS

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Possible Lineup

McLeod
Hayes
Fast
Shattenkirk
Vesey
Schneider
Lindqvist
Fogarty
Smith
Hajek
O’Gara
Howden
Andersson
McQuaid
Lindgren
Meskanen
Namestnikov
Lettieri​

Lines

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Pairings

Goalies

Alexandar Georgiev - Tokarski (non-starter)​

Injuries and Scratches

Matt Beleskey is sidelined two-to-four weeks with a shoulder separation (Sept. 26).​

MEDIA CONTACTS
MSG Network

Web site -- New York Rangers
Rick Carpiniello's Twitter -- Rick Carpiniello (@RickCarpiniello) | Twitter
John Giannone's Twitter -- John Giannone (@jaygeemsg) | Twitter​

New York Daily News

Web site -- New York Rangers News, Schedule, Stats, Rumors - NY Daily News​

New York Post

Web site -- Hockey | New York Post
Larry Brooks' Twitter -- Larry Brooks (@NYP_Brooksie) | Twitter
Brett Cyrgalis' Twitter -- Brett Cyrgalis (@BrettCyrgalis) | Twitter​

New York Times

Web site -- Hockey
Allan Kreda's Twitter -- Allan Kreda (@akreda) | Twitter​

Newsday

Web site -- NY Sports News, Scores, Schedules & Standings
Colin Stephenson's Twitter -- Colin Stephenson (@ColinASteph) | Twitter
Steve Zipay's Twitter -- Steve Zipay (@stevezipay) | Twitter​

PRESEASON SCHEDULE

* Rookie game

Date	Opponent	Arena	Location	Time (ET)	Radio/TV	Result
Wed, Sep 12	NY Islanders*	Northwell Health Ice Center	East Meadow, NY	6:00 pm	None/NHL.com	W 6-3
Sun, Sep 16	NY Islanders	NYCB Live/Nassau Colisseum	Long Island, NY	1:00 pm	97.5/None	L 0-3
Mon, Sep 17	NY Islanders	Wells Fargo	Philadelphia, PA	7:00 pm	97.5 /NBCSP+	W 3-1
Tue, Sep 18	NY Islanders	Barclays Center	Brooklyn, NY	7:00 pm	97.5/None	W 5-1
Wed, Sep 19	NY Rangers	Madison Sq. Garden	New York, NY	7:00 pm	97.5/MSG	W 6-4
Fri, Sep 21	NY Islanders	PPL Center	Allentown, PA	7:00 pm	97.5/	L 2-3 (OT)
Mon, Sep 24	Boston	Wells Fargo	Philadelphia, PA	7:00 pm	97.5/NBCSP+	L 3-4
Thu, Sep 27	NY Rangers	Wells Fargo	Philadelphia, PA	7:00 pm	97.5/NHLN, NBCSP+, MSG	L 2-4
Sat, Sep 29	Boston	TD Garden	Boston, MA	5:00 pm	97.5/NHLN, NESN

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GDT MUSIC

"Rock and Roll" and "Celebration Day" by Led Zeppelin

John Bonham died Sept. 25, 1980​

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[MiamiScreamingEagles]

This is up earlier than normal due to personal timing.

 

[Embiid]

Gritty!

 

[Beef Invictus]

 

[sa cyred]

Can Gritty play net? He’s fat enough.

 

[Hiesenberg]

Well we should basically get 2 games with the real lineup.

I really don't want to see with Hakstol comes up with.

 

[sabremike]

If you see anyone booing Gritty tonight please do the right thing and punch them in the face.

 

[Domino666]

I can’t wait for a heavy dose of AMac, and the rest of the Beet Gang

 

[RANKKA]

If you see anyone booing Gritty tonight please do the right thing and punch them in the face.

whats happening tonight?

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

whats happening tonight?

He was orange and hirsute, couldn't recognize himself
Life above the arena had turned into Hell
Saw his reflection in "Muppets Take Manhattan"
Couldn't remember the last toilet he'd shat in
Oh Flyers, you gonna be booing away?
At the Grits of Philadelphia

 

[DancingPanther]

He was orange and hirsute, couldn't recognize himself
Life above the arena had turned into Hell
Saw his reflection in "Muppets Take Manhattan"
Couldn't remember the last toilet he'd shat in
Oh Flyers, you gonna be booing away?
At the Grits of Philadelphia

Ain't no softie gonna play here
It's just Weise and I, my friend
But Misha's a Phantom no more
Gonna teach him to put on a thicker skinnnn

The game is ended, we're flying away
Saw the shell bend and sway
Now save me Jori with your faithful kiss
Don't leave this team alone like this
With a lack of hard and heavyyyy

Grit grit gritgritgritgrit
Grit grit gritgritgritgrit

 

[Bruckuss]

We are the grit ones, my friends.
We will play heavy, to the end.
We are the grit ones, WE ARE THE GRIT ONES!
No time for rookies, 'cause we have the veterans.

 

[Strawberry Fields]

If you see anyone booing Gritty tonight please do the right thing and punch them in the face.

As if Gritty won't personally strangle them to death with his own two hands.

 

[JXC]

Lets go!!!!

 

[Flyerfan4life]

inB4 Hakshell

 

[hatcher]

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Lets go!!!!

Man I wish we could turn back time. Even the 5 yrs that team missed the playoofs they had fun players to watch. Ghost is great but he better stay that way in the playoffs this time and Provy is awesome and big Sammy the rest are boring and slow.

 

[MiamiScreamingEagles]

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Lets go!!!!

It could be overlooked by even the most ardent fans and pundits but Mark Howe's OT goal in Game 1 of the 1985 Playoffs should always be remembered as one of the most important goals in team history. The prior three PO seasons (1-9 record), losing to the Rangers twice, a last minute goal by NY in this game, not knowing if Lindbergh could handle the pressure of a PO, Keenan's first PO game... the expectation of failure oozed like a creepy crawler on steroids. And then Mark Howe happened.

1:19 into this clip.

 

[MiamiScreamingEagles]

This is partially lifted, with a few edits, from ESPN's page which had a simplicity that was easy to carry into HF.

Some of the forward positions may be different or change (i.e. Konecny RW) and certainly the heights and weights could vary from what the team posts. However, this appears to be the roster from what I can see heading into Wednesday.

Blue = Injured. Not expected to be part of the 23-man active roster.

CENTERS
NO.	NAME	AGE	HT	WT	SHOT	BIRTH PLACE	BIRTHDATE
82	Connor Bunnaman	20	6-1	208	L	Guelph, Ontario	4/16/98
52	Greg Carey	28	6-0	195	L	Hamilton, Ontario	4/5/90
14	Sean Couturier	25	6-3	211	L	Phoenix, Arizona	12/7/92
65	Radel Fazleev	22	6-0	179	L	Kazan, Russia	1/7/96
68	Morgan Frost	19	5-11	173	L	Aurora, Ontario	5/14/99
38	Corban Knight	28	6-2	195	R	Oliver, British Columbia	9/10/90
11	Travis Konecny	21	5-10	184	R	London, Ontario	3/11/97
75	Pascal Laberge	20	6-1	174	R	Chateauguay, Quebec	4/9/98
21	Scott Laughton	24	6-1	190	L	Oakville, Ontario	5/30/94
15	Jori Lehtera	30	6-2	212	L	Helsinki, Finland	12/23/87
19	Nolan Patrick	20	6-2	199	R	Winnipeg, Manitoba	9/19/98
63	German Rubtsov	20	6-2	178	L		6/27/98
44	Phil Varone	27	5-10	186	L	Vaughan, Ontario	12/4/90
74	Mike Vecchione	25	5-10	195	R	Saugus, Massachusetts	2/25/93
46	Mikhail Vorobyev	21	6-2	194	L	Ufa, Russia	1/5/97
40	Jordan Weal	26	5-9	179	R	Saskatoon, Saskatchewan	4/15/92
LEFT WINGS
NO.	NAME	AGE	HT	WT	SHOT	BIRTH PLACE	BIRTHDATE
28	Claude Giroux	30	5-11	185	R	Hearst, Ontario	1/12/88
39	Tyrell Goulbourne	24	5-11	195	L	Edmonton, Alberta	1/26/94
20	Taylor Leier	24	5-11	177	L	Saskatoon, Saskatchewan	2/15/94
54	Oskar Lindblom	22	6-2	192	L	Gavle, Sweden	8/15/96
12	Michael Raffl	29	6-0	200	L	Villach, Austria	12/1/88
76	Isaac Ratcliffe	19	6-6	200	L	London, Ontario	2/15/99
81	Carsen Twarynski	20	6-2	196	L	Calgary, Alberta	11/24/97
25	James van Riemsdyk	29	6-3	200	L	Middletown, New Jersey	5/4/89
RIGHT WINGS
NO.	NAME	AGE	HT	WT	SHOT	BIRTH PLACE	BIRTHDATE
62	Nicolas Aube-Kubel	22	5-11	190	R	Slave Lake, Alberta	5/10/96
42	Cole Bardreau	25	5-10	193	R	Fairport, New York	7/22/93
36	Colin McDonald	33	6-1	214	R	New Haven, Connecticut	9/30/84
17	Wayne Simmonds	30	6-2	183	R	Scarborough, Ontario	8/26/88
64	Maksim Sushko	19	6-0	181	L	Drogichin, Belarus	2/10/99
93	Jakub Voracek	29	6-2	214	L	Kladno, Czechoslovakia	8/15/89
22	Dale Weise	30	6-2	205	R	Winnipeg, Manitoba	8/5/88
DEFENSE
NO.	NAME	AGE	HT	WT	SHOT	BIRTH PLACE	BIRTHDATE
43	T.J. Brennan	29	6-1	216	L	Willingboro, New Jersey	4/3/89
77	James De Haas	24	6-3	213	L	Mississauga, Ontario	5/3/94
72	David Drake	23	6-3	185	L	Naperville, Illinois	1/7/95
26	Christian Folin	27	6-3	214	R	Kungsbacka, Sweden	2/9/91
59	Mark Friedman	22	5-11	194	R	Toronto, Ontario	12/25/95
53	Shayne Gostisbehere	25	5-11	186	L	Pembroke Pines, Florida	4/20/93
3	Radko Gudas	28	6-0	204	R	Prague, Czechoslovakia	6/5/90
8	Robert Hagg	23	6-2	204	L	Uppsala, Sweden	2/8/95
73	Frank Hora	22	6-1	205	R	Amherst, New York	6/1/96
47	Andrew MacDonald	32	6-1	190	L	Judique, Nova Scotia	9/7/86
5	Samuel Morin	23	6-7	227	L	Lac-Beauport, Quebec	7/12/95
61	Philippe Myers	21	6-5	196	R	Moncton, New Brunswick	1/25/97
58	Zach Palmquist	27	6-0	187	L	South St. Paul, Minnesota	12/9/90
9	Ivan Provorov	21	6-0	203	L	Yaroslavl, Russia	1/13/97
6	Travis Sanheim	22	6-3	181	L	Elkhorn, Manitoba	3/29/96
60	Reece Willcox	24	6-4	208	R	Surrey, British Columbia	3/20/94
70	Egor Zamula	18	6-3	165	L	Chelyabinsk, Russia	3/30/00
GOALIES
NO.	NAME	AGE	HT	WT	SHOT	BIRTH PLACE	BIRTHDATE
37	Brian Elliott	33	6-2	212	L	Newmarket, Ontario	4/9/85
79	Carter Hart	20	6-1	176	L	Sherwood Park, Alberta	8/13/98
34	Alex Lyon	25	6-1	201	L	Baudette, Minnesota	12/9/92
30	Michal Neuvirth	30	6-0	209	L	Usti Labem, Czechoslovakia	3/23/88
41	Anthony Stolarz	24	6-6	232	L	Edison, New Jersey	1/20/94

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[Beef Invictus]

It could be overlooked by even the most ardent fans and pundits but Mark Howe's OT goal in Game 1 of the 1985 Playoffs should always be remembered as one of the most important goals in team history. The prior three PO seasons (1-9 record), losing to the Rangers twice, a last minute goal by NY in this game, not knowing if Lindbergh could handle the pressure of a PO, Keenan's first PO game... the expectation of failure oozed like a creepy crawler on steroids. And then Mark Howe happened.

1:19 into this clip.

There is no such thing as too many Howe highlights.

 

[SolidSnakeUS]

I really f***ing hate the thought of Elliott playing again. Ugh. I legit hope Sanheim plays.

 

[Striiker]

 

[Hiesenberg]

So much for Couts getting into the end of preseason.

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

Does Couts have a cabin?

 

[Freddy The Fog]

It's pre-season for Pete's sake. I'd like to see Vorobyev on the first line until Couts comes back or reg season begins.

Just how creative can the kid be?

 

[Flyerfan4life]

It's pre-season for Pete's sake. I'd like to see Vorobyev on the first line until Couts comes back or reg season begins.

Just how creative can the kid be?

lol at the very idea Haktard is capable of being that creative with a non-vet...