Elliott, who made it through practice on Tuesday seemingly OK, spoke briefly with Vigneault on the ice near the end of the session. Taxi Squad goaltender Alex Lyon, who had been off the ice for two weeks and whose Taxi Squad spot was temporarily re-assigned to Felix Sandström last week, practiced with Elliott and Carter Hart as a third goalie on the ice in Tuesday's session. Sandström was loaned to the Lehigh Valley Phantoms on Monday, along with David Kase, Derrick Pouliot and Matthew Strome.
LINDBLOM DOING WELL
Once Braun, barring any setbacks, exits the COVID-19 protocol, the Flyers will have four remaining players in the protocol: Jakub Voracek (who could exit the protocol as soon as Thursday), Oskar Lindblom (potentially eligible to come off the protocol list as soon as Saturday), Scott Laughton (Saturday) and Travis Konecny (Sunday).
Vigneault reported on Tuesday that all of the Flyers players remaining on the COVID protocol list were either asymptomic all along since testing positive (as has been the case with Voracek) or experienced mild symptoms but are now feeling better. That includes Lindblom; whose case was potentially more complicated due to being less than a year removed from chemotherapy.
MOVING PARTS ON 4TH LINE
Taxi Squad forwards Maksim Sushko (who has been in the Flyers' starting lineup the last two games) and Andy Andreoff (who appeared in Sunday's NHL Outdoors game in Lake Tahoe) practiced on Tuesday on what could be the Flyers' fourth line against New York. Carsen Twarynski, who did not practice last week but returned for this season, skated on their line. Samuel Morin also took some reps with the line.
PRACTICE LINE PLAY
The Flyers used the following intermingled forward lines and defense pairs of NHL roster players and Taxi Squad members at Tuesday's practice:
van Riemsdyk - Couturier - Farabee
Giroux - Hayes - Patrick
Raffl - Bunnaman -Aube-Kubel
Twarynski/Morin - Andreoff - Sushko
Gostisbehere - Provorov
Sanheim - Myers
Hägg-Gustafsson
Friedman-Prosser
Elliott
Hart
Lyon
PP1: Hayes-Farabee-JvR-Couturier-Provorov PP2: Giroux-Patrick-NAK-Gustafsson-Gostisbehere