Projected lineups for the Flyers vs Sabres – 4/17/25

The Philadelphia Flyers take on the Buffalo Sabres at the KeyBank Center tonight. Here are the projected/expected lineups sourced from NHL.com staff writers, independent correspondents, and others.

FLYERS (33-38-10) at SABRES (35-39-7)

7 p.m. ET; NBCSP, MSG-B

Flyers projected lineup

Tyson Foerster — Noah Cates — Bobby Brink
Travis Konecny — Sean Couturier — Matvei Michkov
Jakob Pelletier — Ryan Poehling — Owen Tippett
Nicolas Deslauriers — Devin Kaplan — Garnett Hathaway

Nick Seeler — Travis Sanheim
Cam York — Jamie Drysdale
Egor Zamula — Emil Andrae

Ivan Fedotov
Samuel Ersson

Scratched: Aleksei Kolosov, Karsen Dorwart

Injured: Rasmus Ristolainen (upper body)

Status report:

Kaplan will make his NHL debut.

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Sabres projected lineup

Zach Benson — Jiri Kulich — Tage Thompson
JJ Peterka — Ryan McLeod — Alex Tuch
Jason Zucker — Peyton Krebs — Jack Quinn
Beck Malenstyn – Noah Ostlund — Sam Lafferty

Mattias Samuelsson — Rasmus Dahlin
Bowen Byram — Connor Clifton
Jacob Bryson — Jacob Bernard-Docker

James Reimer
Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen

Scratched: None

Injured: Beck Malenstyn (undisclosed), Owen Power (lower body), Tyson Kozak (hip strain), Jordan Greenway (lower body), Josh Norris (middle body)

Status Report:

The Sabres are expected to dress the same 18 skaters they used in a 4-0 loss to the Toronto Maple Leafs on Tuesday. … Malenstyn, a forward, will miss his second straight game.

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