Blackhawks at Flyers preview

BLACKHAWKS (6-7-3) at FLYERS (8-7-1)
1 p.m. ET; NHLN, NBCSP, NBCSCH, NHL.TV

Colliton replaced Joel Quenneville as coach Tuesday and lost his debut, 4-3 to the Carolina Hurricanes on Thursday.
The Flyers are 4-0-1 in their past five games and will try to win consecutive home games for the first time since Oct. 16 and 20. They defeated the Arizona Coyotes 5-4 in overtime on Thursday.

Players to watch

Blackhawks forward Patrick Kane has 13 points (seven goals, six assists) in his past nine games.
Flyers forward Claude Giroux has eight points (three goals, five assists) in his past five games. He is one point behind Rick MacLeish (697) for fourth in Philadelphia history.

They said it

"I liked the energy we finished (the game Thursday) with. We had some good feelings going there and we just kind of ran out of time. I'd like to pick up where we left off." -- Blackhawks coach Jeremy Colliton
"Certain things with prescouting [the Blackhawks] are not going to change. Look at their personnel. We can start there. They've got world-class players. It starts there. In terms of the tweaks and differences in systems, I'm sure there's going to be some. But it still comes back to, from my perspective, where we're at right now, being more complete than we were yesterday, having a real solid, consistent, 60-minute game regardless of what's going on with the team we're playing against." -- Flyers coach Dave Hakstol

Blackhawks projected lineup

Alex DeBrincat -- Jonathan Toews -- Dominik Kahun
Nick Schmaltz -- Artem Anisimov -- Patrick Kane
Brandon Saad -- David Kampf -- Alexandre Fortin
John Hayden -- Luke Johnson -- Andreas Martinsen
Duncan Keith -- Henri Jokiharju
Erik Gustafsson -- Brent Seabrook
Brandon Manning -- Jan Rutta
Corey Crawford
Cam Ward
Scratched: Brandon Davidson, Chris Kunitz
Injured: Marcus Kruger (left leg), Connor Murphy (back)

Flyers projected lineup

Claude Giroux -- Sean Couturier -- Travis Konecny
Oskar Lindblom -- Nolan Patrick -- Jakub Voracek
Dale Weise -- Jordan Weal -- Wayne Simmonds
Scott Laughton -- Jori Lehtera -- Nicolas Aube-Kubel
Ivan Provorov -- Robert Hagg
Shayne Gostisbehere -- Christian Folin
Travis Sanheim -- Radko Gudas
Brian Elliott
Calvin Pickard
Scratched: Andrew MacDonald
Injured:James van Riemsdyk (lower body), Michael Raffl (lower body), Corban Knight (collarbone), Michal Neuvirth (lower body)

Status report

Kane, Toews, Keith and Seabrook each took a maintenance day Friday but will play. ... Van Riemsdyk practiced but remains at least another week from playing. He was expected to miss 5-6 weeks when he was injured Oct. 6; Saturday will be five weeks.

Stat pack

DeBrincat has one assist in his past six games after he had 14 points (eight goals, six assists) in his first 10 games. ... Toews has three goals in his past 13 games after he had five in his first three games. ... Lindblom has seven points (two goals, five assists) during a five-game point streak. ... Gostisbehere has four points (two goals, two assists) in his past two games.