Viewers’ information: Flyers-Hurricanes on ABC, ESPN +

Viewers' guide: Flyers-Hurricanes on ABC, ESPN +

The ABC hockey schedule continues this Saturday afternoon with the Metropolitan Division recreation, because the Philadelphia Flyers journey to face the Carolina Hurricanes, with protection beginning at 3 p.m. ET and simultaneous broadcasting on ESPN+.

That can assist you put together for the sport, we have put collectively a information on all the important thing gamers to look at for every staff, together with in-depth statistical insights from ESPN stats and information, and extra.

This season, ESPN+ will broadcast 75 unique common season video games, with ABC and ESPN broadcasting 28 common season exclusives for a complete of 103 video games. The total broadcast schedule could be discovered right here.

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Line: Carolina -320 | Above underneath: 5.5

Flyers
ESPN Vitality Rankings: 28
Main scorer: Cam Atkinson 43 factors in 57 video games
2021-22 file: 18-29-10, eighth within the metro part

  • The Flyers are 7-14-5 on the highway this season, and are presently tied for minimal wins within the NHL with the Seattle Kraken and Montreal Canadiens. The Flyers are tied up with the Detroit Purple Wings for the fourth-worst proportion on the highway (.365).

  • The Flyers are presently on a 10-game no-win streak relationship again to December 30, 2023. They’re trying to keep away from 11 non-winn straight highway video games for the primary time for the reason that 1972-73 season.

  • Claude Giroud is one level shy of reaching 900 in his profession, and he may turn out to be the second Flyers participant to take action after Bobby Clarke. Giroux may turn out to be the 14th energetic participant—and third within the 2006 draft class (Nicklas Backstrom, Phil Kessel)—to achieve the benchmark.

  • Giroux can be an unrestricted free agent on the finish of the season (it has a cap of $8.275 million reached this season, based on CapFri Pleasant). He is three video games away from becoming a member of Clark (1144) as the one pilot to achieve 1,000 appearances for the staff. If he performs in Philly’s subsequent three video games, he’ll attain 1,000 on March 17 versus the Nashville Predators — 4 days earlier than the March 21 NHL buying and selling deadline.

  • The Flyers are solely the fourth staff this season to have two guards (20 GP minimal) with a 2.94 GAA or worse (the Canadians, Purple Wings and Arizona Coyotes are the others). Carter Hart produced successful seasons within the first two seasons of his profession, however his battle to emulate that success continues, seeing his second-worst in financial savings ratio (0.912) and GAA (2.94) this season.

  • The facility struggles of the Flyers could also be as a result of their lack of entry to hacking in direction of the community. In line with Statletes, they’re ranked twenty ninth in Energy-play slots accomplished passes per 60 minutes and have taken the fourth most Energy-play slots passes per 60 minutes this season.


Tornadoes
ESPN Vitality Rankings: 3
Main scorer: Sebastian Aho, 59 factors in 54 video games
2021-22 file: 40-12-5, first within the metro part

  • The Hurricanes have been excellent at house this season at 22-4-2, posting the second-best proportion within the NHL, at 0.821, behind the Colorado Avalanche at 0.845. They’ve the third-best house play proportion, at 28.3%, behind the Boston Bruins and the Toronto Maple Leafs, and have had stable objectives in 5 of their final six video games.

  • Their present six-game successful streak at house is the longest this season. Hurricanes are aiming to achieve seventh in a row for the sixth time within the historical past of the Hurricanes/Whalers franchise. They haven’t gained seven consecutive video games in a single house season for the reason that 2016-17 season.

  • The Hurricanes share the league lead with the Dallas Stars and the Minnesota Wild in one-goal wins this season, and 5 of their final 9 video games have sealed victories by this margin.

  • Sebastian Aho leads the staff in scoring objectives (25) and factors (59) this season. The Hurricanes didn’t lose in regulation within the video games Aho scored, going 18-0-1. Aho has factors in 10 of his final 11 video games.

  • The cyclones are led by their Finnish battalion of Aho, Teofu Teravainen and Gisbury Kottkanyemi. The trio scored 128 factors this season, giving the Hurricanes essentially the most factors amongst gamers from Finland; The second highest ranked are the Florida Panthers (115) and the Stars (107).

  • Fredrik Andersen is third within the Nationwide Hockey League in variety of wins with 29 wins, just one behind Sergei Bobrovsky and Andrei Vasilevsky who share the highest spot within the league. Andersen’s 29 wins in his staff’s first 57 video games in a season tied for essentially the most in his profession, having beforehand finished so for the Anaheim Geese through the 2014-15 season. And Anderson is looking for 30 wins in his staff’s first 58 video games, which would be the quickest for him.