Penguins at Flyers projected lineups

PENGUINS (0-0-0) at FLYERS (0-0-0)

7:30 p.m. ET; HBO MAX, truTV, TNT

Penguins projected lineup

Nick Robertson -- Sidney Crosby -- Rickard Rakell

Egor Chinakhov -- Tommy Novak -- Evgeni Malkin

Ville Koivunen -- Hendrix Lapierre -- Filip Hallander

Conor Dewar -- Blake Lizotte -- Elmer Soderblom

Declan Carlile -- Erik Karlsson

Trevor van Riemsdyk -- Kris Letang

Samuel Girard -- Kaedan Korczak

Arturs Silovs

Sergei Murashov

*Scratched: David Gustafsson, Rutger McGroarty, Ilya Solovyov*

*Injured: Justin Brazeau (lower body), Ryan Graves (knee), Ben Kindel (lower body), Bryan Rust (upper body)*

Flyers projected lineup

Owen Tippett -- Trevor Zegras -- Porter Martone

Tyson Foerster -- Christian Dvorak -- Travis Konecny

Alex Bump -- Noah Cates -- Matvei Michkov

Carl Grundstrom -- Sean Couturier -- Noel Acciari

Travis Sanheim -- Rasmus Ristolainen

Cam York -- Jamie Drysdale

Nick Seeler -- Simon Benoit

Dan Vladar

Joseph Woll

*Scratched: Garrett Wilson, David Jiricek*

*Injured: Denver Barkey (lower body), Nikita Grebenkin (upper body)*

Status report

Lizotte took part in an optional morning skate and is expected to play; he had missed time during training camp because of an upper-body injury. ... Rust and Kindel skated in noncontact jerseys but coach Dan Muse said nothing has changed for either forward; each is on injured reserve and considered week to week. ... Forward Andrei Kuzmenko remains away from the Penguins following the death of his father, Alexander; the funeral was in Russia on Monday. ... The Flyers held an optional morning skate. ... Couturier and Acciari were the only healthy players not taking part but coach Rick Tocchet said each is available to play. ... Vladar took part in the morning skate and will start after missing the final two preseason games because of an upper-body injury sustained against the Boston Bruins on Sept. 22.