Projected Lineups for the Flyers vs Sharks – 12/31/24

The Philadelphia Flyers take on the San Jose Sharks at the SAP Center today. Here are the projected/expected lineups sourced from NHL.com staff writers, independent correspondents, and others.

FLYERS (16-17-4) at SHARKS (11-22-6)

8 p.m. ET; NBCSP, NBCSCA

Flyers projected lineup

Owen Tippett — Sean Couturier — Travis Konecny
Tyson Foerster — Noah Cates — Bobby Brink
Scott Laughton — Morgan Frost — Matvei Michkov
Joel Farabee — Ryan Poehling — Garnet Hathaway

Cam York — Travis Sanheim
Egor Zamula — Rasmus Ristolainen
Nick Seeler — Jamie Drysdale

Samuel Ersson
Aleksei Kolosov

Scratched: Olle Lycksell, Erik Johnson, Ivan Fedotov

Injured: Nicolas Deslauriers (upper body)

Status report

Neither team held a morning skate

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Sharks projected lineup

Fabian Zetterlund — Macklin Celebrini — Will Smith
Klim Kostin — Mikael Granlund — Luke Kunin
Nikolai Kovalenko — Alexander Wennberg — Tyler Toffoli
Barclay Goodrow — Nico Sturm — Ty Dellandrea

Henry Thrun — Cody Ceci
Mario Ferraro — Timothy Liljegren
Shakir Mukhamadullin — Jan Rutta

Alexandar Georgiev
Yaroslav Askarov

Scratched: Collin Graf

Injured: Vitek Vanecek (broken cheekbone), Jake Walman (lower body), William Eklund (upper body), Carl Grundstrom (upper body)

Status report

Walman, a defenseman, will miss his fourth straight game. … Eklund, a forward, was placed on injured reserve Tuesday will miss his third straight. … Grundstrom will not play after the forward was injured during the first period of a 3-1 loss to the Calgary Flames on Saturday. … The Sharks recalled Graf, a forward, from San Jose of the American Hockey League on Tuesday.

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