Bruins vs. Flyers: The Lines are Out!

With an optional skate for both squads this morning, we're going off of yesterday's practice lines. It looks like there could be a little shuffling for the Bruins before the next game. With the offense in a little bit of a lull, Claude has seemingly bumped big man Jimmy Hayes to the top line with Brad Marchand and Patrice Bergeron. David Pastrnak has taken Hayes' spot next to Vatrano and Kemppainen on the 3rd line, which gives the that line some major speed and firepower on the wing. Not sure what it means for Brett Connolly, though...

The fourth line is sticking with the grinding combo from Monday's game that actually produced some good chances. Which ultimately means that Zac Rinaldo will have a homecoming game at the Wells Fargo Center.

With Adam McQuaid still out, and Joe Morrow still being the 7th man being the unscratchable Kimmy Schmidt Kevan Miller, the D pairs are largely the same as they were at the end of the game on Monday night. Tuukka Rask is also likely to start in net once again.

LW	C	RW
Brad Marchand	Patrice Bergeron	Jimmy Hayes
Matt Beleskey	Ryan Spooner	Loui Eriksson
Frank Vatrano	Joonas Kemppainen	David Pastrnak
Zac Rinaldo	Max Talbot	Landon Ferraro

Defensive Pairings
Zdeno Chara	Zach Trotman
Dennis Seidenberg	Colin Miller
Torey Krug	Kevan Miller

Goalies
Tuukka Rask

The Flyers have announced an update within their lineup yesterday, with a lower-body injury to defenseman Shayne Gostisbehere, who ain't Goingtobehere tonight. It's day-to-day, so I feel less bad about poking fun at his name, okay? In his place, Philly will be giving Brandon Manning another shot on the 3rd pair, who played his first game in three weeks on Saturday. So now we can all root for another Manning to make costly mistakes.

The foundation of the Flyers' lineup is unchanged though, with recent birthday boy Claude Giroux on the top line, and defensive ironman Nick Schultz playing in his 1,000th career NHL game. Schultz has never missed more than 13 games in any given season since his rookie year in 2002-03.

No official word has been given on who's in net for the Flyers, but Steve Mason talked about it being a big game, so I'm guessing him? The world may never know.

LW	C	RW
Jakub Voracek	Claude Giroux	Wayne Simmonds
Michael Raffl	Sean Couturier	Brayden Schenn
Chris VandeVelde	Pierre-Édouard Bellemare	Ryan White
Matt Read	Scott Laughton	R.J. Umberger

Defensive Pairings
Michael Del Zotto	Radko Gudas
Nick Schultz	Mark Streit
Yevgeni Medvedev	Brandon Manning

Goalies
Steve Mason	Michal Neuvirth