{"id":172767,"date":"2026-04-22T12:27:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T12:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/172767\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T12:27:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T12:27:23","slug":"game-preview-pittsburgh-penguins-philadelphia-flyers-round-1-game-3-4-22-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/172767\/","title":{"rendered":"Game Preview: Pittsburgh Penguins @ Philadelphia Flyers, Round 1 Game 3, 4\/22\/2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

Who: Pittsburgh Penguins (0-2) @ Philadelphia Flyers (2-0) in Game 3 of the best of seven series<\/p>\n

How to Watch: Locally broadcast on Sportsnet Pittsburgh and NBC Sports Philadelphia, nationally on TNT and TruTV, streaming on HBO Max<\/p>\n

Pens\u2019 Path Ahead: Game 4 won\u2019t be until Saturday (8:00pm start). If necessary, Game 5 would be back in Pittsburgh on Monday 4\/27.<\/p>\n

Opponent Track: The Flyers are up 2-0 in the series and now back at home for the next two games.<\/p>\n

Hidden Stat: The Penguins went 21-12-8 on the road in 2025-26. Their 50 road points were tied for eighth in the NHL, per Pens PR. The Flyers and Penguins both tied for the fewest home wins in the regular season among Eastern Conference playoff teams (20).<\/p>\n

Getting to know the Flyers<\/p>\n

Tyson Foerster – Trevor Zegras – Owen Tippett<\/p>\n

Travis Konecny – Christian Dvorak – Porter Martone<\/p>\n

Denver Barkey – Noah Cates – Matvei Michkov<\/p>\n

Luke Glendening – Sean Couturier – Garnet Hathaway<\/p>\n

Travis Sanheim \/ Rasmus Ristolainen<\/p>\n

Cam York \/ Jamie Drysdale<\/p>\n

Nick Seeler \/ Noah Juulsen<\/p>\n

Goalies: Dan Vladar and Samuel Ersson<\/p>\n

Potential scratches: Garrett Wilson, Carl Grundstrom, Alex Bump, Emil Andrae<\/p>\n

Injured Reserve: Rodrigo Abols (fractured ankle), Nikita Grebenkin (upper body)<\/p>\n

Game 2 was the first shutout of the season for the Flyers, but going back to the Olympic break Philadelphia only allowed 2.38 goals against per game in the regular season (third best in NHL) and now have only given up two goals in the first two games of this series.Now at home with the benefit of the last change, expect the Flyers to get lots of matchups<\/a> for Sidney Crosby against the Couturier and Dvorak lines.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Rickard Rakell – Sidney Crosby – Bryan Rust<\/p>\n

Egor Chinakhov – Tommy Novak – Evgeni Malkin<\/p>\n

Elmer Soderblom – Ben Kindel – Anthony Mantha<\/p>\n

Connor Dewar – Blake Lizotte – Noel Acciari<\/p>\n

Parker Wotherspoon \/ Erik Karlsson<\/p>\n

Ryan Shea \/ Connor Clifton<\/p>\n

Goalies: Stuart Skinner and Arturs Silovs<\/p>\n

Potential Scratches: Ilya Solovyov, Justin Brazeau, Kevin Hayes, Ryan Graves, Jack St. Ivany<\/p>\n

IR: Filip Hallander, Caleb Jones (season-ending shoulder surgery)<\/p>\n

The Penguins did not have practice yesterday while traveling to the other side of the state, we\u2019ll have to wait for the morning skate today to see any clues about changes in lines or personnel as they look to get off the mat in Game 3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Who: Pittsburgh Penguins (0-2) @ Philadelphia Flyers (2-0) in Game 3 of the best of seven series How…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":172768,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[3264,73,75,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-172767","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh","8":"tag-game-preview","9":"tag-pittsburgh","10":"tag-pittsburgh-headlines","11":"tag-pittsburgh-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}