The game between the Philadelphia Flyers and Detroit Red Wings will take place at Wells Fargo Center on Saturday, March 25 at 1:00 PM ET.
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The Philadelphia Flyers will welcome the Detroit Red Wings to Wells Fargo Center for an NHL game on Saturday. The Philadelphia Flyers won 5-4 in their last game over the Wild. John Tortorella needed one word to sum up if 700 career wins meant anything to the Flyers coach. “No.” OK, then. Good thing the brusque Stanley Cup winner isn’t paid by the word. James van Riemsdyk scored the only goal in a shootout, and Philadelphia beat the Minnesota Wild 5-4 on Thursday night for Tortorella’s 700th victory.
Tortorella is 700-573-181 in 1,454 games as an NHL head coach. His 700 wins rank 12th in NHL history and his career games rank ninth in NHL history. He led Tampa Bay to the Stanley Cup in 2004. In his first season coaching the Flyers, Tortorella joined Peter Laviolette as the second American-born coach to win 700 games. “I think the culture’s kind of changed around here,” Flyers forward Joel Farabee said. “I think he’s done a really good job of keeping the group together.” Farabee, Scott Laughton, Rasmus Ristolainen and Tyson Foerster scored for Philadelphia.
The Flyers have two straight games for the first time since Jan. 9-14 when they won three straight. Yeah, it’s been that kind of season. “Farabee’s starting to pop, he’s looking real good. Tyson is looking real good,” Flyers defenseman Tony DeAngelo said. “This is all about laying the foundation for next year but we get a lot of money to do this job. It’s something we love, so we’re gonna go out and give it our best every night.”
The Detroit Red Wings on the other hand lost 3-4 against the Blues in their last game. Lucas Raymond scored on the only goal during the shootout in Detroit’s 3-2 victory at St. Louis on Tuesday. The Red Wings got off to a quick start in the rematch. Edvinsson’s goal came 38 seconds in when he skated in from the left point and took a shot that bounced off a defender’s leg and trickled through Hofer’s pads. Walman lifted a shot from the left side over Hofer’s right shoulder to make it 2-0.
Toropchenko scored midway through the period on a shot from the point. Nathan Walker, playing in his 100th career game, had an assist to make it 2-1. Nedeljkovic then replaced Hellberg, but Neighbours scored less than two minutes later on a breakaway. “It’s really tough to judge a game overall when four of their first five chances go in,” Detroit coach Derek Lalonde said. “I hated the way we handled it and I hated the way we lost our momentum and energy every time a goal went in.”
The Red Wings recalled Nedeljkovic from Grand Rapids of the AHL under emergency conditions. No. 1 goaltender Ville Husso was inactive due to a lower body injury. … St. Louis D Torey Krug did not make the trip so he could be with his wife, who just gave birth to their third child. … The Blues were 7-2-1 in their last 10 games at Detroit. … Blues GM Doug Armstrong was named GM for Hockey Canada at the International Ice Hockey Federation World Championship, which will be held in Finland and Latvia in May.
Tony DeAngelo – Joel Farabee – Noah Cates
Tyson Foerster – Morgan Frost – Scott Laughton
Rasmus Ristolainen – Travis Sanheim – Cameron York
James van Riemsdyk – Wade Allison
Kieffer Bellows – Carter Hart
Kevin Hayes – Brendan Lemieux
Ivan Provorov – Nick Seeler
Owen Tippett
Egor Zamula
Alex Chiasson – Simon Edvinsson – Dominik Kubalik
Dylan Larkin – Jordan Oesterle – David Perron
Lucas Raymond – Jake Walman – Filip Zadina
Jonatan Berggren – Andrew Copp
Austin Czarnik – Robert Hägg
Magnus Hellberg – Matt Luff
Olli Määttä – Alex Nedeljkovic
Moritz Seider
Pius Suter
Joseph Veleno
Philadelphia Flyers: Travis Konecny, Sean Couturier, Nicolas Deslauriers, Cam Atkinson, Ryan Ellis
Detroit Red Wings: Filip Zadina, Ville Husso, Robby Fabbri, Ben Chiarot, Michael Rasmussen, Mark Pysyk
The game between the Philadelphia Flyers and Detroit Red Wings will take place at Wells Fargo Center on Saturday, March 25 at 1:00 PM ET.
The match between the Philadelphia Flyers and Detroit Red Wings will be telecast live on Bally Sports Detroit, Fox Sports Detroit, NBC Sports Philadelphia.
| Country | Channel | Date and Time |
| United States | Bally Sports Detroit, Fox Sports Detroit, NBC Sports Philadelphia. | March 25 (1:00 PM ET) |
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