Play preview: Philadelphia Flyers @ Pittsburgh Penguins 27.02.2025

Who: Philadelphia Flyers (26-26-7, 59 points, 6th place metropolitan division) @ Pittsburgh Penguins (23-28-9, 55 points, 8th place metropolitan division)

When: 7:30 p.m. ET (Note: This has recently changed. So if you had an outdated calendar, the game begins 30 minutes later).

As you can see: Streaming exclusive game on ESPN+, Hulu and Disney+

Pens’ path ahead: The pens stop chugging when the Boston Bruins come to town on Saturday, followed by the Toronto Maple Leafs, which will appear on Sunday in the PPG Paints Arena. Next week the pens will go west and play games in Colorado and Vegas. This list of opponents is growing in the game …

Enemy track: The flyers have been running 2-0: 0 recently, since the return from the 4 nations have scored six goals in each game (victories against Edmonton and the pens). After today, go to Winnipeg for a game and then return to a home stand with seven games that will secure a large part of March. You sit five points and several teams under the last playoff spot and really have to stay at work to run about it.

Season series: Pittsburgh has to win this evening to earn a separation from the Flyers. The pens won 7: 3 in December, but lost two games in February than the other team from the Commonwealth. This will be the last Pit/Phi game of the season.

Hidden statistics: Pittsburgh Pro pens PR has points in nine consecutive home games against Philadelphia (7-0-2).

Get to know the flyers

Projected lines

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Tyson Foerster – Noah Cates – Bobby Brink

Owen Tipett – Sean Couturier – Matvei Michkov

Andrei Kuzmo – Scott Laighton – Travis Konecny

Jakob Pelletier – Ryan Poehling – Garnet Hathaway

defender

Cam York / Travis Sanheim

Nick Seeler / Jamie Drysdale

EGOR Zamula / Rasmus Ristolainen

Goalkeeper: Samuel Ersson, Ivan Fedotov and Alexei Kolosov

scratch: Nicolas Deslaurier, Erik Johnson

Ir: Ryan Ellis

-The 23 -year -old Foerster quickly became a annoying Penguin killer and achieved average against Pittsburgh well above his early career. Foerster had three points (1G+2A) on Tuesday to increase its total points to nine points (4G+5a) in eight career games against Pittsburgh. The next highest team against which he was achieved is Boston (five points in six games).

-ISSSSON, 25, The long -term answer online? He already has almost 100 NHL games (96) with a non -encouraging percentage of 0.896. However, there were also good signs with its recording (47-32-10) and seven Shutouts. Ersson had the opportunity to play a game in the 4 nations because Jakob Markstrom was injured and the other two goalkeepers were sick, and made the best of it by stopping 32/33 shots against the USA in a profit effort.

– If the overall picture and more relevant today, Ersson is now in good shape. As ESPN.com emphasized, he is saved in his last five games 3-1-1 with a 2.20 GAA and a percentage of 0.926. In the larger area, Ersson has a 12-5-1 record from December 21st in its last 18 starts.

Player statistics

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– The drop in Cutter Gauthier will really stab in the coming years. Gauthier has already been two -digit goals and templates for Anaheim this season last month in the last month. Having a top-five choice is a big blow for a team that needs just like assets. The Flyers did well to win back some of it in Jamie Drysdale, but the jury is no longer there when it has an influence than just being a guy.

-The knowledge of Joel Farabee means that Philadelphia is available this summer and then a whopping $ 67 million for $ 67 million (after the exception of Ellis LTIR), up to $ 32 million on the cheap capsule (according to the exception of Ellis LTIR). They have recently laid uncharacteristically low and have built Draft picks (with three first rounders in the upcoming draft) since Danny Briere jumped up as a GM and has been resumed in the near future when they choose this route.

And now for the pens

Projected lines

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Rickard Rakell – Sidney Crosby – Bryan Rust

Anthony Beauvillier – Evgeni Malkin – Cody Glass

Danton Heinen – Kevin Hayes – Philip Tomasino

Boko Imama – Blake Lizotte – Noel Acciari

defender

Po Joseph / Kris Lang

Matt Grzelcyk / Erik Karlsson

Ryan Shea / Vincent Desharnais

Goalkeeper: Alex Nedeljkovic and Joel Blomqvist

Potential scratches: Michael Bunting (illness), Ryan Graves, Vladislav Kolyachonok

Disposal: Matt Nieto (possibly leave the squad from 2 p.m. or shortly afterwards)

Ir: Boko Imama (possibly leave today after 2 p.m.)

– The availability of Bunting is questioned in the run -up to the game after missing yesterday’s training due to illness. The team will experience the status of Matt Nieto’s waiver at 2 p.m. today. It could be claimed, stay on the NHL squad or send them from the probable probabilities to most. Imama was considered a participant in the practice and was supposed to be on the 23-man squad again and even play this evening this evening, depending on the result with Nieto.

– It was a quick exercise without many lines, so don’t be shocked to see whether defenders are turned around at the bottom of the line.

Time to dig

The message of the coach Mike Sullivan to the team was optimistic yesterday and almost conciliatory. The pens have given up 19 goals in the last three games and are in a difficult place. All illusions that players can hang on, which means that something has disappeared. All you can do now is to make a brave face, take one day after the other and try to play as hard as possible. During clichés it is also about the only prospects that are available at this point.

Milestones and successes

While the penguins play the string, they have some individual markings that keep an eye on them and add a little more. Here are some of them on the horizon:

• Rickard Rakell, 500 career points (currently 498)
• Rakell, a 50-point season (would be the fourth of his career, 49 this season so far)
• Sidney Crosby, 18th place all-time-noine gates (610, currently connected to Bobby Hull)
• Crosby, 10th place of all time NHL Assists (1,046 currently, three back from Gordie Howe)
• Noel Acciari, 500 career games (should meet tonight, 499 enter the day)
• Mike Sullivan, 400 victories with penguins (398)