The Philadelphia Flyers continue their road trip and so far, it’s been pretty successful. We would assume that three straight games against the Vegas Golden Knights, the Utah Mammoth, and Colorado Avalanche would be three straight losses, but the Flyers have started on the right foot with a 2-1 win in Nevada on Monday.
Now, how will they respond as they face the Mammoth tonight?
Puck drop: 9:00 p.m.
How to watch/listen:
📺: NBCSP
📻: 97.5 The Fanatic
Pregame reading
- Sam Ersson really stood on his head on Monday and delivered his best performance of the season. [BSH]
- The World Juniors ended over two weeks ago, so how are those six Flyers prospects that were at the tournament, doing back with their teams? Let’s do a check-in. [BSH]
Pregame watching
By the numbers
Philadelphia Flyers – 23-17-8 (4th in Metro)
Goals: Trevor Zegras (19)
Assists: Travis Konecny (26)
Points: Trevor Zegras (44)
Utah Mammoth – 25-20-4 (4th in Central)
Goals: Dylan Guenther (23)
Assists: Clayton Keller (33)
Points: Clayton Keller (46)
Projected lineups
Trevor Zegras — Christian Dvorak — Owen Tippett
Matvei Michkov — Noah Cates — Bobby Brink
Denver Barkey — Sean Couturier — Owen Tippett
Nikita Grebenkin — Lane Pederson — Garnet Hathaway
Cam York — Travis Sanheim
Emil Andrae — Jamie Drysdale
Nick Seeler — Noah Juulsen
Sam Ersson
(Aleksei Kolosov)
Clayton Keller — Nick Schmaltz — Lawson Crouse
JJ Peterka — Barrett Hayton — Daniil But
Michael Carcone — Jack McBain — Dylan Guenther
Brandon Tanev — Kevin Stenlund — Liam O’Brien
Mikhail Sergachev — Sean Durzi
Nate Schmidt — John Marino
Ian Cole — Nick DeSimone
Karel Vejmelka
(Vitek Vanecek)
Storylines to watch
Building off the tough win in Vegas
The Flyers did manage to pull out a 2-1 win in Vegas but it was not because they simply dominated them and won them over with a full team effort. Sam Ersson stood on his head to save 24 of the 25 shots he faced, and Travis Konecny was somehow given two breakaway opportunities and scored on both of them unassisted. It was a weird game with a weird result, but now it is up to this team to build off of it and see what comes next.
Ersson and Konecny won’t be able to be the only ones who cash in once more, but it is a massive opportunity for the former to wash away some of his reputation for putting up some horrible numbers so far this season.
Or, it can be up to the team to come together to pull off a win against an opponent that should prove to be a very tough out at the very least.
Fighting through the Mammoth’s depth
Just taking a gander at the Mammoth’s lineup and it might cause your eyes to bug out a little bit seeing leading goalscorer Dylan Guenther nestled in on their third line and it not really looking out of place. Even with Logan Cooley still out with an injury, Utah possesses a top nine that should be able to score in any game situation, and then you have a fourth line that isn’t all that quick but could grind you to the bone.
It is going to be a massive test for the Flyers’ depth and without someone like Tyson Foerster to also pull out on the third line or some other youngster that is recently popping, it will be a difficult test.
