The Edmonton Oilers take on the Philadelphia Flyers at Wells Fargo Center today. Here are the projected/expected lineups sourced from NHL.com staff writers, independent correspondents, and others.
OILERS (34-17-4) at FLYERS (24-26-7)
1 p.m. ET; NBCSP, SNW, SN1
Oilers projected lineup
Ryan Nugent-Hopkins — Connor McDavid — Zach Hyman
Matt Savoie — Leon Draisaitl — Vasily Podkolzin
Jeff Skinner — Mattias Janmark — Corey Perry
Viktor Arvidsson — Adam Henrique — Connor Brown
Mattias Ekholm — Evan Bouchard
Darnell Nurse — John Klingberg
Brett Kulak — Ty Emberson
Stuart Skinner
Calvin Pickard
Scratched: Troy Stecher, Kasperi Kapanen
Injured: Evander Kane (hip/knee), Alec Regula (knee)
Status report
Savoie will make his NHL debut, Oilers coach Kris Knoblauch said Friday; a roster move will need to be made to officially call him up from Bakersfield of the American Hockey League. … McDavid did not practice Friday due to traveling from the 4 Nations Face-Off in Boston but will play.
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Flyers projected lineup
Tyson Foerster — Noah Cates — Bobby Brink
Andrei Kuzmenko — Scott Laughton — Travis Konecny
Owen Tippett — Ryan Poehling — Matvei Michkov
Jakob Pelletier — Sean Couturier — Garnet Hathaway
Cam York — Travis Sanheim
Nick Seeler — Jamie Drysdale
Egor Zamula — Rasmus Ristolainen
Samuel Ersson
Ivan Fedotov
Scratched: Aleksei Kolosov, Erik Johnson, Nicolas Deslauriers
Injured: None
Status report:
Poehling, Tippett, Ristolainen and Zamula are healthy and options to play Saturday after each missed time because of an upper-body injury. Poehling missed 11 games, Tippett was out five, Ristolainen missed three and Zamula missed eight. … Pelletier is expected to make his Flyers debut; he had been acquired in a trade with the Calgary Flames on Jan. 30 but had been unable to play because of delays to his immigration paperwork. … Sanheim and Konecny each is expected to play after missing practice Friday to travel from the 4 Nations Face-Off.
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