Flyers projected lineup
Tyson Foerster -- Sean Couturier -- Travis Konecny
Owen Tippett -- Morgan Frost -- Bobby Brink
Joel Farabee -- Scott Laughton -- Garnet Hathaway
Nicolas Deslauriers -- Noah Cates -- Anthony Richard
Travis Sanheim -- Rasmus Ristolainen
Nick Seeler -- Jamie Drysdale
Emil Andrae -- Egor Zamula
Samuel Ersson
Ivan Fedotov
Scratched: Erik Johnson, Matvei Michkov
Injured: Aleksei Kolosov (lower body), Cam York (upper body), Ryan Poehling (undisclosed)
Panthers projected lineup
Evan Rodrigues -- Aleksander Barkov -- Sam Reinhart
Carter Verhaeghe -- Sam Bennett -- Matthew Tkachuk
Eetu Luostarinen -- Anton Lundell -- Jesper Boqvist
A.J. Greer -- Tomas Nosek -- Jonah Gadjovich
Gustav Forsling -- Aaron Ekblad
Niko Mikkola -- Dmitry Kulikov
Nate Schmidt -- Uvis Balinskis
Sergei Bobrovsky
Spencer Knight
Scratched: Adam Boqvist, Mackie Samoskevich
Injured: None
Status report
Ersson will start and return after missing two games with a lower-body injury, and Fedotov will dress as the backup. ... Kolosov will miss his second straight game; the goalie did not dress for a 2-1 shootout win at the Tampa Bay Lightning on Thursday after sustaining a lower-body injury during the Flyers' morning skate, which forced Philadelphia to dress emergency backup goalie Kyle Konin. ... Gadjovich, who has missed eight games with back spasms, returns in place of Samoskevich, a forward.
Kolosov did not dress for a 2-1 shootout win at the Tampa Bay Lightning on Thursday after sustaining a lower-body injury during the Flyers morning skate, which forced Philadelphia to dress emergency backup goalie Kyle Konin. ... Kolosov did not practice Friday and Philadelphia coach John Tortorella had no immediate update, but Ersson, a goalie who has been out since leaving a 3-0 loss to the Boston Bruins on Nov. 2, practiced Friday. … Gadjovich, who has missed eight games with back spasms, returns in place of Samoskevich, a forward.
