{"id":412780,"date":"2026-01-17T15:43:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T15:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/412780\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T15:43:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T15:43:22","slug":"nhl-game-preview-new-york-rangers-at-philadelphia-flyers-with-line-combinations-1-17-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/412780\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL Game Preview: New York Rangers at Philadelphia Flyers with Line Combinations 1\/17\/26"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"NHL<\/p>\n

(Photo by: Frank Franklin II-AP)<\/p>\n

New York Rangers (20-22-6, 46 pts) at Philadelphia Flyers (22-16-8, 52 pts)<\/p>\n

Venue: Xfinity Mobile Arena
Date: Saturday, January 17
Time: 1:00 pm EST
How To Watch:\u00a0ESPN+, MSG Network, NBC Sports Philadelphia
Radio:\u00a0WFAN 660 AM\/101.9 FM, 97.5 The Fanatic, 93.3 WMMR<\/p>\n

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New York Rangers News & Notes:<\/p>\n

The New York Rangers are winless in their previous five games after their 8-4 loss to the Senators on Tuesday night, with an official record of 0-4-1 in those games. Since December 24th, the Rangers have one victory. The Rangers are averaging 2.4 goals per game, while allowing six goals per game, over their last five games.<\/p>\n

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

The Flyers have their own struggles lately, after a 6-3 loss to the Penguins Thursday night, which made five straight games without a win. They have a 0-4-1 record over the last five, scoring an average of just 1.8 goals per game and allowing an average of five goals per game. The Flyers lost 5-4 in a shootout in the first game they played against each other this season, back on December 20th.<\/p>\n

New York Rangers Projected Lines:<\/p>\n

Panarin \u2013 Trocheck \u2013 Lafreniere
Perreault \u2013 Zibanejad \u2013 Miller
Othmann \u2013 Laba \u2013 Cuylle
Raddysh \u2013 Carrick \u2013 Brodzinski<\/p>\n

Gavrikov \u2013 Schneider
Robertson \u2013 Borgen
Vaakanainen \u2013 Morrow<\/p>\n

Martin
Quick<\/p>\n

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

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

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

Kolosov
Ersson<\/p>\n

Players To Watch:<\/p>\n

New York Rangers<\/p>\n

Vincent Trocheck had a goal on four shots during the Shootout victory over the Flyers in their last game back in December. Trocheck also had a goal in the shootout, helping push the Rangers over the top. He has two goals and one assist in his last five games.<\/p>\n

Philadelphia Flyers<\/p>\n

Defenseman Travis Sanheim had a goal and an assist in the shootout loss to the Rangers in December. He has been held pointless in his last five games and is a minus-three during that time.<\/p>\n

Injury Report:<\/p>\n

New York Rangers<\/p>\n

C\u00a0Adam Edstrom<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 IR
D\u00a0Adam Fox<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 IR
G\u00a0Igor Shesterkin<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 IR
LW\u00a0Conor Sheary<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 IR<\/p>\n

Philadelphia Flyers<\/p>\n

RW Tyson Foerster<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 IR
RW Bobby Brink<\/a> \u2013 DTD
D Rasmus Ristolainen<\/a> \u2013 DTD
G Dan Vladar<\/a>\u2013 DTD<\/p>\n

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JC Giff<\/a><\/p>\n

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: Frank Franklin II-AP) New York Rangers (20-22-6, 46 pts) at Philadelphia Flyers (22-16-8, 52 pts) Venue:…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":412781,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5112],"tags":[7288,1503,4838,6856,6878,1468,5,2273,35,4,5573,1467,56,5205,4526,3673,3674,3042],"class_list":{"0":"post-412780","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia-flyers","8":"tag-adam-edstrom","9":"tag-adam-fox","10":"tag-bobby-brink","11":"tag-conor-sheary","12":"tag-dan-vladar","13":"tag-flyers","14":"tag-hockey","15":"tag-igor-shesterkin","16":"tag-new-york-rangers","17":"tag-nhl","18":"tag-nhl-game-preview","19":"tag-philadelphia","20":"tag-philadelphia-flyers","21":"tag-philadelphiaflyers","22":"tag-rasmus-ristolainen","23":"tag-travis-sanheim","24":"tag-tyson-foerster","25":"tag-vincent-trocheck"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115911211080103179","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412780","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=412780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}