Additionally, there have been two late scratches from the playing lineup. Rick Tocchet will serve as co-coach of Team Tocchet along with Mike Keenan. Meanwhile, Murray Craven will also be behind the Team Tocchet bench.
Here's a look at how the two sides will line up for the game:
TEAM HOLMGREN (black uniforms)
Paul Holmgren will be joined behind the Team Holmgren bench by Orest Kindrachuk and Bob "the Hound" Kelly. The three players were teammates under legendary head coach Fred Shero during the early years of Holmgren's career.
Also part of the Team Holmgren "staff": Dave "the Hammer" Schultz, Jim Watson,Rich Sutter and Bill Clement.
The team's planned line combinations include two-third of the original Legion of Doom, two thirds of the 2007-08 Eastern Conference finalist Flyers' second line, the greatest defenseman in franchise history, three players who had stints as the Flyers' team captain and, overall, four Flyers Hall of Fame inductees.
With original Legion of Doom right winger Mikael Renberg unable to attend, Team Holmgren has lined up another strapping number 19 who made an early career impact in the NHL as a member of the Flyers. The roster also features four of the physically toughest forwards in team history.
Robert Esche and Neil Little will split the goaltending duties.
10 John LeClair - 88 Eric Lindros - 19 Scott Mellanby
19 Scott Hartnell - 18 Adam Hall - 15 Joffrey Lupul
9 Scottie Upshall - 14 Ron Sutter - 21 Dave Brown
29 Todd Fedoruk
2 Mark Howe - 3 Dan McGillis
14 Joe Watson - 2 Derian Hatcher
42 Robert Esche
35 Neil Little
TEAM TOCCHET (orange uniforms)
Tocchet, of course, made his first mark on the NHL as one of the mid-1980s core of young Flyers players dubbed "Keenan's Kids". Likewise, the versatile Craven quickly became a mainstay in Keenan's lineup after the Flyers acquired him from Detroit.
The Team Tocchet "staff" also includes three Flyers Hall of Famers who were vital parts of the two-time Stanley Cup winning Broad Street Bullies era teams: the iconic Bob Clarke, franchise all-time leading goal scoring leader Bill Barber and original Flyers right winger Gary Dornhoefer. Longtime Flyers broadcaster Steve Coates, a farmhand player in the Flyers system during his playing days, rounds out the group.
The third member of the Flyers' famous LCB line, Flyers Hall of Fame right wing Reggie Leach, will suit up and play in the Hall of Fame game for Team Tocchet. At age 71. the "Riverton Rifle" is the senior forward and the second eldest player in the game. Team Holmgren defenseman Joe Watson, a Flyers Hall of Famer and a player on the inaugural 1967-68 team as well as both Cup-winning teams, is seven years Leach's senior.
At the other end of the spectrum (pun intended), Team Tocchet goaltender Mike McKenna is the youngest player on either roster. He will play the entire game in goal for the Tocchet side.
Two-thirds of the Deuces Wild of the mid-2000s lhas been reunited for this game. They'll be centered by a teammate from the 2007-08 squad who was also teammates with Gagne on the Stanley Cup finalist 2009-10 team.
They will be joined up front by three mainstays from the Keenan era who were teammates with Tocchet and Craven.One was a five-time NHL All-Star and another is a former Bobby Clarke Trophy winner as Flyers MVP. The third line member was a sturdy-two way role player who got the ball rolling in Game 6 of the 1987 Stanley Cup Final by scoring Philadelphia's first goal of the game. A fellow teammate from this era, a shot-blocking and penalty killing defenseman, is part of the Team Tocchet blueline.
On defense, a regular pairing throughout the 1995-96 season has been put back together for this game. The lineup also includes on the NHL's most feared tough guys of the mid-1990s to the late 2000s, a member of the Calder Cup winning 2004-05 Philadelphia Phantoms and an AHL Hall of Fame center who was an iconic Hershey Bears player in the years that Hershey was the Flyers' affiliate in the American Hockey League.
12 Simon Gagne - 48 Danny Briere - 22 Mike Knuble
26 Brian Propp - 9 Pelle Eklund - 18 Lindsay Carson
87 Donald Brashear - 37 Mitch Lamoureux - 27 Reggie Leach
32 Riley Cote
6 Chris Therien - 28 Kjell Samuelsson
8 Brad Marsh - 55 Nick Schultz
56 Mike McKenna
