Rick Tocchet’s Philadelphia Flyers will seek their second pre-season victory when they go to Beantown on Monday to face Boston Bruins from Marco Sturm.
The playing time at TD Garden is at 7:00 am Pmedt. The game will be broadcast on Philadelphiaflyers.com.
Here are five scenarios to follow while the team enters their second week of practices and exhibition games.
1. Force Foers.
The third-year NHL winger Tyson Foers will play his first pre-season match on Monday. It is fully recovered from an injury to the maximum out of season. Last season, Foerster found a groove playing on a line with Noah Cates and Bobby Brink. The trio is back together in recent practices and has won the Tocchet praise for their diligence and their tones on the ice. The three players are aligned on Monday.
2. Competition from the Bluelines list.
The flyers have four defenders from the opening list of the opening evening: Travis Sanheim, Cam York, Jamie Drysdale and Nick Seeler. With the Rasmus Ristolainen (upper body injury) away until October, there is open competition for at least three places. EGOR ZAMULA is a NHRH-ROSTER holder.
Meanwhile, the list of Monday matches presents Zamula and many other defenders in competition for the opening night places. These include veterans Noah Juulsen and Dennis Gilbert, young offensive defender Emil Andrae and Lehigh Valley Phantoms Hunt McDonald.
Tocchet clearly indicated that he wanted to see some of the players who do not have locked list intensify a little more in pre-season.
3. Vladar returns to Boston.
New Flyers Dan Vladar’s goalkeeper began his pro North American career in the organization of Bruins. The 28 -year -old Czech is expected to start Net for Philly on Monday. After Samuel Ersson took the distance in Saturday’s match, Vladar could follow suit in this match. Aleksei Kolosov (three pre-season appearances to date) will also dress for this match.
4. Display of the Jett.
The Flyers already know that the 19 -year -old center, Jett Luchanko, is exceptionally fast on his skates. They know that he plays a responsible defensive game. Meanwhile, Luchanko has shown the creation of upward games in junior hockey and AHL qualifiers. However, the player always tries to demonstrate his offensive capacities in the NHL camp.
Tocchet said the next step for Luchanko was to keep the washer longer and play more games. He tended to get rid of the washer a little too quickly. Luchanko is back in alignment on Monday: his fourth consecutive opportunity to show what he can do at both ends of the ice.
5. Grebenkin obtains another match.
Tocchet and his staff have long examined the Russian winger Nikita Grebenkin in the training camp to date. The attacker thoroughly is again in alignment Monday after a strong offensive projection against Boston in Philadelphia there are two nights.
