{"id":179182,"date":"2026-04-29T11:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T11:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/179182\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T11:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T11:32:09","slug":"game-preview-pittsburgh-penguins-philadelphia-flyers-round-1-game-6-4-28-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/179182\/","title":{"rendered":"Game Preview: Pittsburgh Penguins @ Philadelphia Flyers, Round 1 Game 6, 4\/28\/2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

Who: Philadelphia Flyers (3-2) @ Pittsburgh Penguins (2-3) in Game 6 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: The Penguins need to win tonight in order to extend the series to a winner-takes-all Game 7, which would take place Saturday in Pittsburgh at a time to be determined.<\/p>\n

Opponent Track: The Flyers are looking to snap their losing streak after dropping two straight. The home team is still one win away from earning the chance to take on the Carolina Hurricanes in the second round.<\/p>\n

Hidden Stat: Just 12 percent of NHL teams that have gone down 0-3 in a best-of-seven Stanley Cup playoff series have gone on to force a Game 6.<\/p>\n

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

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

Denver Barkey – Trevor Zegras – Owen Tippett<\/p>\n

Alex Bump – Noah Cates – Tyson Foerster<\/p>\n

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

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

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

Nick Seeler \/ Emil Andrae<\/p>\n

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

Potential scratches: Matvei Michkov (?), Oliver Bonk (?), Helge Grans, David Jiricek, Garrett Wilson, Nikita Grebenkin, Oscar Eklind, Noah Juulsen, Hunter McDonald, Jacob Gaucher, Carl Grundstrom, Aleksei Kolosov, Carson Bjarnason<\/p>\n

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

Defenseman Emil Andrae, who missed time after suffering an injury in Game 1, returned to the third pairing in Game 5 in place of Noah Juulsen.The Flyers scratched Matvei Michkov ahead of Game 5 in favor of Alex Bump, who celebrated his return to the lineup by scoring one of Philadelphia\u2019s two goals.If Michkov draws back into the lineup tonight, it sounds like it won\u2019t be in place of Tyson Foerster, who has been held without a point this series. Flyers head coach Rick Tocchet said Tuesday the Flyers would \u201ctry to stick with\u201d Foerster.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s just not him; we\u2019ve got some other guys there that we need a little bit more from,\u201d Tocchet said Tuesday. \u201cBut it is tough, hitting the wall, to be able to play at that pace and all that sort of stuff, maybe he has hit the wall a little bit. But 24 hours or 36 hours off, reset your brain, all that stuff can do wonders for the guy.\u201d<\/p>\n

There could still be some changes coming to the lineup. Tocchet said the Flyers have been discussing potentially slotting 21-year-old Oliver Bonk, who has one game of regular-season experience at the NHL level, in for Game 6.When asked if Pens\u2019 ability to adjust to the Flyers\u2019 defense in Games 4 and 5 had impacted his game plan going forward, Tocchet said his emphasis ahead of Game 6 would be not on changing his team\u2019s structure but on encouraging players\u2019 \u201cdetermination\u201d to get the puck.<\/p>\n

\u201dThey\u2019ve adjusted. I\u2019ve got to give their staff and their players credit. But there\u2019s some stuff there that we\u2019re not doing, that we can expose them,\u201d Tocchet said Tuesday about the Pens. \u201cAnd I\u2019m not going to get into that part, but there\u2019s a lot of skating and wanting the puck. There\u2019s got to be a little bit more want and determination, and you\u2019ll get pucks.<\/p>\n

\u201dI don\u2019t think, me personally, it\u2019s X and O\u2019s. I think it\u2019s determination, on some of these players, to wanting that puck.\u201d<\/p>\n

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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 \/ Ilya Solovyov<\/p>\n

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

Potential Scratches: Connor Clifton, Justin Brazeau, Kevin Hayes, Ryan Graves, Jack St. Ivany, Sergei Murashov<\/p>\n

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

The Penguins canceled practice Tuesday, so the first look at any changes to the lineup will come before tonight\u2019s game.Elmer Soderblom\u2019s goal on Monday seems like a good indication he\u2019ll be back in the lineup for Game 6, which could mean Justin Brazeau will remain out.Another positive in Game 5 was the Penguins\u2019 fourth line. Goalscorer Connor Dewar, when asked Monday whether he felt the momentum in the series had shifted, answered: \u201cWe\u2019re just fighting to stay together. Every win is a few more days together, so that\u2019s the way I\u2019m thinking about it.\u201dFrom Pens PR: Arturs Silovs is the first Penguins goaltender since Frank Pietrangelo in 1991 to win his first two playoff starts while facing elimination both times.Kris Letang also joined Silovs in history as the first defenseman since 1971 to score back-to-back Stanley Cup playoff game winners when his team was facing elimination, per Pens PR.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Who: Philadelphia Flyers (3-2) @ Pittsburgh Penguins (2-3) in Game 6 of the best of seven series How…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18288,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[3264,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-179182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-game-preview","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179182","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=179182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}