Canucks at Flyers preview

CANUCKS (12-8-4) at FLYERS (11-7-5)
7 p.m. ET; NBCSP+, SNP, NHL.TV

The defenseman left in the first period of a 2-1 shootout win against the Washington Capitals on Saturday with an upper-body injury but took part in the morning skate Monday.
Goalie Thatcher Demko starts for the first time in four games for the Canucks, who have won two in a row after going 1-5-2 in their previous eight games.
Carter Hart makes his second straight start for the Flyers, who are 1-2-3 in their past six games after going 5-0-1 in the previous six. They lost 3-2 to the Calgary Flames in a shootout Saturday.

Players to watch

Canucks forward Elias Pettersson has eight points (four goals, four assists) in his past six games.
Flyers forward
Morgan Frost
has three points (two goals, one assist) and nine shots on goal in his first three NHL games since being recalled from Lehigh Valley of the American Hockey League on Nov. 18.

They said it

"I've had a lot of injuries, so I feel like I know my body pretty well. [Sunday] felt really good, so that was a good sign. Today, the [morning] skate went well." --Canucks defenseman Alexander Edler
"We had one of our better games so far this year against Calgary as far as low number of scoring chances against and a very high number of scoring chances for, so I am just going back to the same lineup." --Flyers coach Alain Vigneault

Canucks projected lineup

Tanner Pearson -- Elias Pettersson -- Brock Boeser
J.T. Miller -- Bo Horvat -- Zack MacEwen
Tim Schaller -- Adam Gaudette -- Josh Leivo
Loui Eriksson -- Tyler Graovac -- Jake Virtanen
Alexander Edler -- Tyler Myers
Quinn Hughes -- Chris Tanev
Jordie Benn -- Troy Stecher
Thatcher Demko
Jacob Markstrom
Scratched: Oscar Fantenberg, Sven Baertschi
Injured: Jay Beagle (lower body), Brandon Sutter (groin strain), Tyler Motte (foot), Antoine Roussel (knee), Micheal Ferland (concussion protocol)

Flyers projected lineup

Claude Giroux -- Morgan Frost -- Travis Konecny
Oskar Lindblom -- Sean Couturier -- Jakub Voracek
Scott Laughton -- Kevin Hayes -- Joel Farabee
James van Riemsdyk -- Michael Raffl -- Tyler Pitlick
Ivan Provorov -- Matt Niskanen
Travis Sanheim -- Justin Braun
Robert Hagg -- Philippe Myers
Carter Hart
Brian Elliott
Scratched: Chris Stewart, Shayne Gostisbehere
Injured: Nolan Patrick (migraine disorder)

Status report

Sutter, who will miss his sixth straight game, joined the Canucks in Philadelphia and practiced Monday. Ferland, who has not played since Oct. 30, is expected to join them in Pittsburgh on Tuesday. Roussel, who hasn't played since tearing the ACL in his right knee in March, was sent to Utica of the American Hockey League on a conditioning loan.

Stat pack

Giroux had four points (two goals, two assists) against the Carolina Hurricanes on Nov. 21 but has been held without a point in six of his past eight games. Konecny has four assists in his past three games. … Hughes has six assists in his past four games. Boeser has a goal in all five career games against the Flyers, and seven points (six goals, one assist) in those games.