Flyers Face Critical Three-Game Stretch After Three-Straight Losses<\/a><\/p>\nThings to watch<\/p>\n
This kicks off a very important stretch of games for the Flyers. With the Eastern Conference so close in the standings, it seems like almost every team is going to be in a dogfight come the end of the season. With three straight games vs. potential competition for a wild-card spot, it\u2019s critical that the Flyers turn things around, and that starts on Wednesday. Can they do it?<\/p>\n
With that, the Flyers\u2019 biggest stars have been quiet. Matvei Michkov has not scored a goal since December 22nd and has not beaten a goalie since November 29th. Trevor Zegras is pointless in five of the last six, and Owen Tippett is pointless in four of the last six. Travis Konecny has been battling through injury. The Flyers need someone to step up and help dig them out of their slump. <\/p>\n
The goaltender decision will be interesting. Wednesday is the first of a back-to-back, so it feels like a safe bet that we will see both goalies on the road. So, will we see how Dan Vladar responds immediately after a tough night, or will Sam Ersson get another chance to prove himself and turn things around? I\u2019d lean toward Vladar vs. Buffalo, but you could go either way. <\/p>\n
I expect both Bobby Brink and Jamie Drysdale to be questionable for Wednesday\u2019s game. On Tuesday, Rick Tocchet said it was possible one or both would return for the game. If I had to take a guess, I\u2019d lean towards a Brink return before Drysdale, but don\u2019t rule out both. <\/p>\n
How to watch Flyers @ Sabres<\/p>\n
TV: TNT, TruTV, HBO Max
Radio: 93.3 WMMR<\/p>\n
Puck drop is at 7:30 p.m. EST at the KeyBank Center in Buffalo, New York. <\/p>\n
Read More: Flyers Injury Update: Defenseman Loaned Back to AHL, Good Sign for Drysdale<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Philadelphia Flyers (22-14-8) take on one of the hottest teams in the league, the Buffalo Sabres (24-16-4),…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":407475,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5112],"tags":[229,1468,36308,5,4,1467,56,5205],"class_list":{"0":"post-407474","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia-flyers","8":"tag-buffalo-sabres","9":"tag-flyers","10":"tag-flyers-game","11":"tag-hockey","12":"tag-nhl","13":"tag-philadelphia","14":"tag-philadelphia-flyers","15":"tag-philadelphiaflyers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115894461707104289","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}