Today’s game begins at 1:00 p.m. ET and can be:
- Seen on TV locally via NBC Sports Philadelphia (or via stream on the MyTeams App)
- Seen on TV in Buffalo via MSG-B
- Seen on TV in Canada via Sportsnet
- Heard on radio locally via 97.5 The Fanatic
- Seen or heard elsewhere via Sirius XM, NHL.tv, and NHL Center Ice/
We’ve got some late-breaking news from the Flyers on the injury front today, as Sean Couturier will miss today’s game because of a lower-body injury that has him “day-to-day”. We’ll see how long that ultimately ends up being, but this previously-unannounced injury does help explain Phil Varone’s call-up on Friday.
According to Sam Carchidi, Jordan Weal will draw back into the lineup while the aforementioned Varone is a scratch:
Weal is in the lineup; Hak won’t say where … or who will be top-line C. Stolie in goal for 4th straight game. Varone not playing. Coots injured vs. CBJ. #Flyers
— Sam Carchidi (@BroadStBull) December 8, 2018
Which way the Flyers choose to go with the specific lines sans-Couturier is unclear; the below is a guess until we get further information.
Projected Flyers lineup:
Forwards
van Riemsdyk – Giroux – Konecny
Voracek – Patrick – Simmonds
Raffl – Laughton – Weise
Lindblom – Lehtera – Weal
Defensemen
Provorov – Gostisbehere
Hagg – MacDonald
Sanheim – Gudas
Goalies
Stolarz
(Neuvirth)
Projected Sabres lineup (via):
Forwards
Skinner – Eichel – Reinhart
Sheary – Mittelstadt – Pominville
Sobotka – Rodrigues – Okposo
Thompson – Larsson – Berglund
Defensemen
Dahlin – Bogosian
Pilut – Ristolainen
Beaulieu – Tennyson
Goalies
Ullmark
(Hutton)
