{"id":409338,"date":"2026-01-15T18:51:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T18:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/409338\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T18:51:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T18:51:13","slug":"nhl-game-preview-philadelphia-flyers-at-pittsburgh-penguins-with-line-combinations-1-15-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/409338\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL Game Preview: Philadelphia Flyers at Pittsburgh Penguins with Line Combinations 1\/15\/2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

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(Photo by: Matt Slocum-AP)<\/p>\n

Philadelphia Flyers (22-15-8, 52 pts) at Pittsburgh Penguins (21-14-10, 52 pts)<\/p>\n

Venue: PPG Paints Arena
Date: Thursday, January 15
Time: 7:00 pm EST
How To Watch:\u00a0ESPN
Radio:\u00a0Sportsnet 97.5 The Fanatic, 93.3 WMMR, 105.9 FM The X<\/p>\n

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Philadelphia Flyers News & Notes:<\/p>\n

The Flyers lost last night, 5-2, against the Buffalo Sabres and now have a 1-3-1 record over their last five games. Philadelphia has scored an average of 2.2 goals per game and has given up an average of 4.2 goals per game over its last five. They will be on the second game of a back-to-back with travel between Buffalo and Pittsburgh entering tonight\u2019s game. The Flyers are 1-1-0 against the Penguins this season. Winning the first meeting 3-2 in a shootout back on October 28th.<\/p>\n

Pittsburgh Penguins News & Notes:<\/p>\n

The Penguins lost their last game 2-1 to the Lightning in a shootout back on January 13th. Pittsburgh has a 2-2-1 record over its last five games. The Penguins have scored an average of 2.2 goals per game and have conceded an average of two goals per game in their last five. The Penguins won the last meeting between these two teams 5-1 back on December 1st<\/p>\n

Philadelphia Flyers Projected Lines:<\/p>\n

Zegras-Dvorak-Konecny
Michkov-Couturier-Grundstrom
Grebenkin-Cates-Tippett
Deslauriers-Abols-Hathaway<\/p>\n

Sanheim-York
Drysdale-Andrae
Seeler-Juulsen<\/p>\n

Ersson
Vladar<\/p>\n

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Pittsburgh Penguins Projected Lines<\/p>\n

Rakell-Crosby-Rust
Chinakhov-Novak-Malkin
Mantha-Kindel-Brazeau
Dewar-Lizotte-Acciari<\/p>\n

Kulak-Letang
Shea-Clifton
Wotherspoon-St. Ivany<\/p>\n

SKinner
Silovs<\/p>\n

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Philadelphia Flyers<\/p>\n

Matvei Michkov<\/a> had four shots in the Flyers 5-1 loss to the Penguins back on December 1st. He has one assist for the Flyers in his last five games played.<\/p>\n

Pittsburgh Penguins<\/p>\n

Sidney Crosby<\/a> had two goals on five shots during the Penguins\u2019 5-1 win over the Flyers in their last game back on December 1st. Crosby has one goal and three assists over his last five games for the Penguins.<\/p>\n

Injury Report:<\/p>\n

Philadelphia Flyers<\/p>\n

RW\u00a0Tyson Foerster<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 IR
RW Bobby Brink<\/a> \u2013 Out
D Rasmus Ristolainen<\/a> -DTD<\/p>\n

Pittsburgh Penguins<\/p>\n

C\u00a0Filip Hallander<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 IR
G Joel Blomqvist<\/a> \u2013 IR
D Caleb Jones<\/a> \u2013 IR
D Erik Karlsson<\/a> \u2013 DTD<\/p>\n

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Father of 3, Bruins, Red Sox, Cubs, Liverpool, Syracuse football and Basketball Fan. Love Fantasy Football, Baseball and Hockey. If I am not at work, I either at an ice rink, Ball field or spending quality time with my family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Photo by: Matt Slocum-AP) Philadelphia Flyers (22-15-8, 52 pts) at Pittsburgh Penguins (21-14-10, 52 pts) Venue: PPG Paints…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":409339,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5113],"tags":[4838,3282,642,2522,5,98,509,4,5573,118,56,1469,100,5216,4526,768,3674],"class_list":{"0":"post-409338","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh-penguins","8":"tag-bobby-brink","9":"tag-caleb-jones","10":"tag-erik-karlsson","11":"tag-filip-hallander","12":"tag-hockey","13":"tag-joel-blomqvist","14":"tag-matvei-michkov","15":"tag-nhl","16":"tag-nhl-game-preview","17":"tag-penguins","18":"tag-philadelphia-flyers","19":"tag-pittsburgh","20":"tag-pittsburgh-penguins","21":"tag-pittsburghpenguins","22":"tag-rasmus-ristolainen","23":"tag-sidney-crosby","24":"tag-tyson-foerster"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115900625809079046","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409338","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=409338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}