Flyers at Rangers preview

FLYERS (29-19-10) at RANGERS (27-27-5)
12 p.m. ET; NBC, TVAS, NHL.TV

The Flyers, who defeated the Columbus Blue Jackets 2-1 in overtime on Friday, have won four straight on the road and are tied with the New Jersey Devils for third place in the Metropolitan Division. The Rangers, who have lost three straight, are five points behind the New York Islanders for the second wild card into the Stanley Cup Playoffs from the Eastern Conference.
Henrik Lundqvist will start for the Rangers after he was pulled in the third period of a 6-3 loss to the Ottawa Senators on Saturday.
New York, which is 3-10-0 in its past 13 games, has defeated Philadelphia in seven of the past eight games.

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Players to watch

Center Sean Couturier scored the game-winner against the Blue Jackets on Friday and leads the Flyers with 29 goals.
Rangers forward Michael Grabner has four goals in his past five games.

They said it

"We're more and more comfortable in these games. We've won a lot of these games, and it's a lot of credit to our guys just staying with it." -- Flyers coach Dave Hakstol
"Obviously things are not going the way we want, but we have a lot of hockey left here and we have to continue to do what we can." -- Rangers goalie Henrik Lundqvist

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Flyers projected lineup

Claude Giroux -- Sean Couturier -- Travis Konecny
Jakub Voracek -- Nolan Patrick -- Wayne Simmonds
Jordan Weal -- Scott Laughton -- Michael Raffl
Jori Lehtera -- Valtteri Filppula -- Dale Weise
Ivan Provorov -- Shayne Gostisbehere
Robert Hagg -- Andrew MacDonald
Brandon Manning -- Radko Gudas
Alex Lyon
Michal Neuvirth
Scratched: Taylor Leier, Mark Alt
Injured: Brian Elliott (lower body)

Rangers projected lineup

Rick Nash -- Mika Zibanejad -- Pavel Buchnevich
Jimmy Vesey -- Kevin Hayes -- Mats Zuccarello
Michael Grabner -- J.T. Miller -- Jesper Fast
Paul Carey -- Peter Holland -- David Desharnais
Brady Skjei -- Neal Pionk
Nick Holden -- Tony DeAngelo
John Gilmour -- Ryan Sproul
Henrik Lundqvist
Alexandar Georgiev
Scratched: Cody McLeod,
Injured: Chris Kreider (blood clot), Kevin Shattenkirk (knee), Marc Staal (cervical strain), Ondrej Pavelec (knee), Ryan McDonagh (upper body), Steven Kampfer (hand)

Status report

McLeod, who was scratched on Saturday for Hayes, could miss his second straight game. Hayes started on the fourth line, but moved up to play with Vesey and Zuccarello later in the game. ... Lundqvist allowed five goals on 27 shots and was replaced by Brandon Halverson against the Senators. Rangers coach Alain Vigneault said the decision was because he planned to start Lundqvist against the Flyers. Halverson was sent to Hartford of the American Hockey League on Sunday.

Stat pack

Nash is two points away from 800 for his NHL career (433 goals, 365 assists). ... The Rangers are 14-9-0 in the second game of a back-to-back since the start of last season. ... Konecny has 15 points (eight goals, seven assists) in his past 14 games.