{"id":560466,"date":"2026-04-27T02:09:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T02:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/560466\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T02:09:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T02:09:21","slug":"flyers-make-lineup-changes-after-penguins-win-tocchet-benching-winger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/560466\/","title":{"rendered":"Flyers Make Lineup Changes after Penguins Win; Tocchet Benching Winger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Philadelphia Flyers had their first bad game of the series and the <a href=\"https:\/\/pittsburghhockeynow.com\/tag\/pittsburgh-penguins\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"147\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pittsburgh Penguins<\/a> had their best game of the series in Game 4. The Penguins avoided a sweep and gave themselves a dollop of hope they can get back in the series with a striking 4-2 win Sunday at Xfinity Mobile Arena. <\/p>\n<p>Sunday was a travel day for the Penguins. Parker Wotherspoon, <a href=\"https:\/\/pittsburghhockeynow.com\/tag\/noel-acciari\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"3662\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Noel Acciari<\/a>, and coach Dan Muse spoke to the media from the team hotel before heading home Sunday morning. <\/p>\n<p>Before making the trek to Pittsburgh, the Flyers had a full practice at which coach Rick Tocchet made one significant change to his lineup. According to Will James of <a href=\"https:\/\/phillyhockeynow.com\/flyers-lineup-changes-could-matvei-michkov-healthy-scratch-soon\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener external nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"(opens in a new tab)\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">Philly Hockey Now<\/a>, Tocchet appears ready to bench talented but inconsistent Russian winger Matvei Michkov in favor of high-energy rookie Alex Bump. <\/p>\n<p>Bump, 22, had nine points (5-4-9) in 17 NHL games this season. He spent most of the season with the Lehigh-Valley Phantoms before his March recall but has been the odd-man out in the playoffs. The 6-foot, 194-pound winger is in his first professional season and was the Flyers\u2019 2022 fifth-round pick.<\/p>\n<p>Bump will take a spot on the third line with Noah Cates and Tyson Foerster. <\/p>\n<p>Tocchet is also reinserting physical defenseman Emil Andrae, who was solid in Game 1 but suffered an injury, missing the next few games in favor of Noah Juulsen. <\/p>\n<p>Michkov took a step backward in his second NHL season, dropping from 26 goals in his rookie year to 20 this season. Michkov had no points in four playoff games. <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTags: <a href=\"https:\/\/pittsburghhockeynow.com\/tag\/matvei-michkov\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" target=\"_blank\">matvei michkov<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/pittsburghhockeynow.com\/tag\/philadelphia-flyers\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" target=\"_blank\">Philadelphia flyers<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/pittsburghhockeynow.com\/tag\/pittsburgh-penguins\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" target=\"_blank\">Pittsburgh Penguins<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"categories single-categories\">Categorized:<a href=\"https:\/\/pittsburghhockeynow.com\/category\/2026-stanley-cup-playoffs\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" target=\"_blank\">2026 Stanley Cup Playoffs<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/pittsburghhockeynow.com\/category\/pittsburgh-penguins\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" target=\"_blank\">Pittsburgh Penguins<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Philadelphia Flyers had their first bad game of the series and the Pittsburgh Penguins had their best&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":560467,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5112],"tags":[1468,5,509,4,1467,56,5205,100],"class_list":{"0":"post-560466","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia-flyers","8":"tag-flyers","9":"tag-hockey","10":"tag-matvei-michkov","11":"tag-nhl","12":"tag-philadelphia","13":"tag-philadelphia-flyers","14":"tag-philadelphiaflyers","15":"tag-pittsburgh-penguins"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116474240287681362","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560466","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=560466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/560467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}