NHL Game Preview: Philadelphia Flyers at Pittsburgh Penguins with Line Combinations 12/23/2024

Rickard Rakell skating for the Pittsburgh Penguins
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Philadelphia Flyers at Pittsburgh Penguins
Venue:
Date: Tonight – Monday, December 23
Time: 7:00 pm EST

TV: Radio:
Philadelphia Flyers
Pittsburgh Penguins – 105.9 FM The X

DraftKings Sportsbook Betting Lines:
Philadelphia
+1.5 ML -245
Pittsburgh -1.5 ML +200
O/U 6.5

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Philadelphia Flyers News & Notes

A point behind the Pens in the Wild Card Race, this game has some value for the Flyers—the top three positions in the Metropolitan Division out moderately out of distance.

Pittsburgh Penguins News & Notes

Undoubtedly, Pittsburgh is trying to get younger on the fly. But with a core of Crosby, Malkin, and Letang, it’s also hard to leave the ‘win now’ mode.

Philadelphia Flyers Projected Lines

Farabee-Couturier-Konecny

Tippett-Frost-Michkov

Foerster-Cates-Brink

Laughton-Poehling-Hathaway

Seeler-Ristolainen

Sanheim-Drysdale

Andrae-Zamula

Ersson

Kosolov

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Pittsburgh Penguins Projected Lines

Rakell-Crosby-Rust

Bunting-Malkin-Glass

O’Connor-Tomasino-Beauvillier

Nieto-Lizotte-Acciari

Pickering-Letang

Grzelcyk-Karlsson

Graves-Shea

Jarry

Nedeljkovic

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Players To Watch

Philadelphia Flyers

Travis Konecny has been in the trade rumors for multiple years and finds himself there again. Despite those rumors, he’s having a stellar season with 40 points in 34 games, making it difficult for Flyers brass to move on from him.

Pittsburgh Penguins

Rickard Rakell has 15 goals and 11 points in 35 games this season, heating up with 6 goals in his last 10 games.

Injury Report:

Philadelphia Flyers

D Ryan Ellis – LTIR – Out indefinitely

Pittsburgh Penguins

D Marcus Pettersson – IR – Week to week

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