Scouting the Flyers

Philadelphia is off to a flying 3-0 start. The Flyers were nearly impenetrable in 2-1 and 3-0 season-opening victories over Boston and New Jersey, respectively, then held off Vancouver 5-4 on Wednesday. Claude Giroux has three goals and two assists in three games, heading into the only meeting of the season between the Kings and Flyers. Here’s how the Kings and Flyers are scheduled to line up tonight…

KINGS LINEUP
Gagne-Kopitar-Williams
Penner-Richards-Brown
Richardson-Stoll-Moreau
Clifford-Lewis-Westgarth

Mitchell-Doughty
Scuderi-Johnson
Drewiske-Greene

Quick
Bernier

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FLYERS LINEUP
James van Riemsdyk-Claude Giroux-Jaromir Jagr
Wayne Simmonds-Danny Briere-Jakub Voracek
Scott Hartnell-Sean Couturier-Matt Read
Zac Rinaldo-Max Talbot-Andreas Nodl

Matt Carle-Chris Pronger
Kimmo Timonen-Andrej Meszaros
Braydon Coburn-Andreas Lilja

Ilya Bryzgalov
Sergei Bobrovsky

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