Wanna get away?
Dave Hakstol's group probably did — and needed to — after losing, 6-1, to the Islanders last Saturday at the Wells Fargo Center, a third straight defeat that left the team befuddled.
The Flyers (4-7-0) now open a key four-game road trip early in the season when they play the Ducks (5-5-2) Tuesday night.
Let's look at the essentials:
• When: 10 p.m. ET with Flyers Pregame Live at 9:30 p.m.
• Where: Honda Center
• Broadcast: NBC Sports Philadelphia
• Live stream: NBCSportsPhiladelphia.com and the NBC Sports MyTeams app
• The Flyers are trying anything at this point. When the power play is 1 for its last 20, changes are needed in hopes of a spark.
The personnel will switch as Nolan Patrick and Travis Konecny are expected to join the first unit in place of Wayne Simmonds and Jakub Voracek, who will slide down to the second group.
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Patrick and Konecny certainly have the ability to kick-start the Flyers.
The 20-year-old Patrick is so smart and skilled with his hands around the goal crease that it wasn't a surprise to see him thrive in Simmonds' net-front role down the stretch of last season.
Remember this?
He scored three power-play goals during Simmonds' seven-game absence and led the Flyers with five markers on the man advantage over their final 23 contests.
Last season, the Flyers also saw the benefit of giving Konecny a promotion. From Dec. 28 to April 3, a 43-game stretch in which he played on the first line alongside Claude Giroux and Sean Couturier, the 21-year-old Konecny put up 20 goals, 37 points and a plus-18 rating as the Flyers went 24-13-6.
Let's see what the kids can do because the Flyers need more out of both.
• A few aspects hard to fathom: Couturier, the Flyers' first-line center, is without an assist through 11 games, while Ivan Provorov is a minus-8 and without a goal. Nobody foresaw those two playing at this level to start the season.
And you can't blame that on coaching.
• The Ducks may be having it just as bad as the Flyers right now. They've lost five straight games and seven of their last nine after starting the season 3-0-0. Anaheim is 28th in the NHL with 2.42 goals per game, while the Flyers have allowed a league-high 46. Which one will give Tuesday night?
• Before last season's win in Anaheim, the Flyers hadn't beaten the Ducks on the road since Dec. 2, 2011.
• Brian Elliott is 2-8-3 with a 3.31 goals-against average and .878 save percentage in 14 career games against the Ducks.
Projected lineup
Forwards
Claude Giroux-Sean Couturier-Travis Konecny
Oskar Lindblom-Nolan Patrick-Jakub Voracek
Dale Weise-Jordan Weal-Wayne Simmonds
Scott Laughton-Jori Lehtera-Nicolas Aube-Kubel
Defensemen
Ivan Provorov-Robert Hagg
Shayne Gostisbehere-Christian Folin
Travis Sanheim-Radko Gudas
Goalies
Brian Elliott
Michal Neuvirth
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