3. Experience vs. youth<\/p>\n
Pittsburgh is stocked with veterans, including three-time Stanley Cup champions in Crosby (38), Evgeni Malkin<\/a> (39) and Kris Letang<\/a>\u00a0(38). Philadelphia, meanwhile, could have as many as 10 players participating in their first NHL postseason game. However, Tocchet said he wasn’t concerned because those younger players have been in big games, pointing to Denver Barkey<\/a>\u00a0(20) winning the Memorial Cup twice with London of the Ontario Hockey League, Porter Martone<\/a>\u00a0(19) playing for Canada at the IIHF World Junior Championship the past two years, and Alex Bump<\/a>\u00a0(22) winning an NCAA championship at Western Michigan last season. “It’s just the NHL, so what’s the difference?” Tocchet said. “They’re (all) pressure games, so that’s the way you try to talk to these guys.”<\/p>\n Flyers projected lineup<\/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 — Emil Andrae<\/p>\n Dan Vladar<\/p>\n Samuel Ersson<\/p>\n Scratched: Garrett Wilson, Alex Bump, Noah Juulsen, Carl Grundstrom<\/p>\n Injured: Rodrigo Abols (lower body), Nikita Grebenkin (upper body)<\/p>\n Penguins projected lineup<\/p>\n Egor Chinakhov — Sidney Crosby — Bryan Rust<\/p>\n Tommy Novak — Rickard Rakell — 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 Samuel Girard — Kris Letang<\/p>\n Ryan Shea — Connor Clifton<\/p>\n Stuart Skinner<\/p>\n Arturs Silovs<\/p>\n Scratched: Justin Brazeau, Ilya Solovyov, Kevin Hayes, Ryan Graves, Jack St. Ivany<\/p>\n Injured: Filip Hallander (blood clot)<\/p>\n Status report<\/p>\n Tippett, Konecny, Couturier, Zegras, Dvorak, Sanheim, Ristolainen, Drysdale and York each will play after being scratched in the Flyers\u2019 regular-season finale, a 4-2 win against the Montreal Canadiens on Tuesday. … Skinner will start; he did not participate in an optional morning skate. … Lizotte is likely to return after missing the final 16 games of the regular season with an upper-body injury. … Dewar could play after being sidelined four games with a lower-body injury.<\/p>\n NHL.com independent correspondent Wes Crosby contributed to this report<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"3. Experience vs. youth Pittsburgh is stocked with veterans, including three-time Stanley Cup champions in Crosby (38), Evgeni…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":593045,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-593044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=593044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/593045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}