Friday, November 24 at 7:05 p.m.
PPL Center, Allentown, PA
Lehigh Valley (8-6-2) vs. Providence (6-8-3)
TONIGHT
The Lehigh Valley Phantoms are back at PPL Center for a Thanksgiving Weekend homestand beginning tonight against the slumping Providence Bruins. The Phantoms are returning from a perfect three-game trip through Canada and have also won four in a row, all on the road. The Providence Bruins have dropped four straight. Tonight is the first of six meetings between the Atlantic Division foes.
LAST TIME
The Phantoms finished their perfect Canadian road swing with a hard-fought 2-1 win at the Toronto Marlies on Tuesday. Olle Lycksell (11th) and Garrett Wilson (4th) provided the offense while Cal Petersen racked up 25 saves in a strong effort which also included backstopping a perfect 6-for-6 penalty kill. Former Phantom and Flyer Kieffer Bellows scores the lone goal for the Marlies. Lehigh Valley’s win came against the top goaltender in the AHL in rookie Dennis Hildeby who entered the night with a 1.41 goals-against average.
TANN THE MAN!
Tanner Laczynski was named the Howie’s Hockey Tape/AHL Player of the Week for his massive performance last weekend which included three goals and two assists in two games. He added another assist on Tuesday in Toronto after he had won the award.
Laczynski was a factor in all three goals in Lehigh Valley’s 3-2 win at the Laval Rocket on Friday with one goal and two assists. Then he racked up two more goals in the 8-1 rout of the Belleville Senators on Saturday.
Laczynski is the second Phantom to win the honor this season as he joins Olle Lycksell who received the honor on October 23 following a five-goal weekend in three games that included a hat trick at Springfield on October 20.
FELIX RETURNS
The Philadelphia Flyers have loaned goaltender Felix Sandström to the Lehigh Valley Phantoms.
The Flyers have also reassigned defenseman Mason Millman from the Phantoms to the Reasding Royals of the ECHL.
Sandström, 26, recently played in two games with Lehigh Valley on a conditioning loan from Philadelphia. But his stint with the Phantoms was cut short due to an upper-body injury in the first period of a home game on Friday, November 3 against Hartford. He was recalled to Philadelphia after that game and placed on injured reserve. Sandström went 0-0-1, 3.68, .857 in his two games with Lehigh Valley. Last season, he played in seven games with the Phantoms in January on a conditioning loan going 4-1-2, 2.39, .911 which…
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