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VOORHEES, N.J. — Cam York and Jamie Drysdale are the 2 youngest gamers on the Flyers’ blue line.
They’re each tasked with puck-moving duties and offering offense from the again finish.
For now, the 23-year-old York could have slightly extra on his plate as his good buddy misses time. Drysdale suffered an harm Sunday, presumably to the area of his left shoulder and arm. He missed the vast majority of final season with the Ducks because of a torn labrum in his left shoulder.
Head coach John Tortorella on Tuesday was uncertain concerning the 21-year-old defenseman’s restoration timeline.
What had been York’s phrases of encouragement to Drysdale?
“Simply dangle in there,” he stated Tuesday after morning skate. “I am probably not certain but precisely what is going on on, however I believe he prevented the worst case, in order that’s excellent news. Simply obtained to remain constructive. He is so younger and has an extended methods to go, so it is undoubtedly not the top of the world.”
The Flyers, having misplaced 4 of their final 5 video games (1-3-1), need to stem the tide once they host the Lightning (7 p.m. ET/NBCSP). They maintain a playoff spot in third place of the Metropolitan Division with 23 video games left.
Tortorella had typically utilized the Flyers’ depth on the blue line by enjoying an additional defenseman. Abruptly the Flyers are a lot thinner on the again finish. With out Drysdale and Rasmus Ristolainen (upper body, injured reserve), the Flyers are down to 6 wholesome defensemen.
York, coming off a two-point recreation (one objective, one help), is aware of he’ll have to assist make up for the absence of Drysdale’s offensive strengths.
“With him out, that is a giant piece of that,” York stated. “Undoubtedly slightly bit. However we have had this core six for an excellent chunk of video games with out Jamie and did rather well, so we’ll have to seek out that once more.”
The Flyers additionally need to push ahead Tuesday with out their main scorer Travis Konecny. The 2024 All-Star will miss a 3rd straight recreation with an upper-body harm. The Flyers on Saturday considered him day to day.
Bobby Brink was known as up Tuesday and labored on a line with Morgan Frost and Joel Farabee in morning skate. Brink, a 22-year-old rookie, was sent down to AHL affiliate Lehigh Valley last month.
“I am not the primary man that has had that occur to them,” he stated. “So it is not like I can sit there and whine about it. It has occurred to a number of guys on this league. Simply type of depends upon the way you deal with it.”
The playmaking winger put up 11 factors (six targets, 5 assists) in 11 video games with the Phantoms.
“I did not convey him right here to verify,” Tortorella stated. “Hopefully he’ll convey some offense to us.
“It is not like he has lit it up down there in Lehigh. I believe Bobby may be a man, too, it occurs quite a bit with gamers, when you might have different folks round him, nationwide hockey leaguers might assist him. Bobby’s introduced some offense to us when he was right here. It leveled out slightly bit, I believe he wanted a mindset change slightly bit, as younger gamers do generally.”
Together with Cal Petersen, Cam Atkinson stayed on the ice nicely after Tuesday’s skate ended, a sign the veteran winger might be a wholesome scratch in opposition to Tampa Bay.
Atkinson performed a season-low 10:08 minutes within the Flyers’ 7-6 loss Sunday to the Penguins. After occurring a six-game level streak (5 targets, 5 assists) from Jan. 13-23, Atkinson has gone with no level in his final 11 video games.
“It seems to be like he will flip a nook, I believe he has performed some good video games, however terribly inconsistent,” Tortorella stated. “The ten minutes is the ten minutes. I assumed different guys had been enjoying and that is why Cam ended up with 10.”
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