Game Preview: Philadelphia Flyers @ Pittsburgh Penguins, Round 1 Game 2, 4/20/2026

• Owen Tippett and Emil Andrae were not on the ice for practice yesterday. Tippet didn’t have a point but is one of the team’s more important players who led them in scoring (28 goals) last season and was involved in several big hits on Saturday.

And now for the Pens

• The Pens had the same lines yesterday at practice so it doesn’t look like Brazeau or anyone else who didn’t play in Game 1 is going to be back in for today’s Game 2.
• Dan Muse said he knows who will be the goalie for today’s game, but he declined to specify who that would be. Stuart Skinner certainly wasn’t the team’s biggest problem in Game 1 but he didn’t get the win and the door is certainly open to continue the goalie rotation the team has used so often this season. **Time to work**

“If you go back a little ways now, during the stretch where they were really kind of making a push to clinch, I thought we had good offensive depth throughout the lineup,” Muse said. “I thought we had good balance. I thought all lines were chipping in and creating, and creating in different ways.”

During that same stretch, the players did a terrific job of moving from one day to the next, whether they were coming off a big win or tough loss. And while the emotions and intensity are higher right now, Muse feels confident that the group will still find a way to turn the page quickly.

“The guys came in. They came ready to work. They had good energy. I thought we got something out of our day today. And so, now we move on to tomorrow,” Muse said.