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Flyers Notes: Flyers look to build momentum vs. Hurricanes

With lowly Carolina visiting the Wells Fargo Center on Saturday afternoon, the Flyers have a juicy opportunity to increase their points streak to five games and pick up ground in the Metropolitan Division.

Flyers forwards Sean Couturier and Wayne Simmonds. (Yong Kim/Staff Photographer)
Flyers forwards Sean Couturier and Wayne Simmonds. (Yong Kim/Staff Photographer)Read more

With lowly Carolina visiting the Wells Fargo Center on Saturday afternoon, the Flyers have a juicy opportunity to increase their points streak to five games and pick up ground in the Metropolitan Division.

No NHL team has fewer points than the Hurricanes (19), who have lost four straight and slipped to 8-17-3.

The Flyers (10-13-5) are coming off one of their better all-around performances of the season, a 4-1 win over New Jersey on Thursday that started a four-game homestand.

In Thursday's methodical win, the Flyers outshot the Devils, 36-18.

Sean Couturier, who had a shorthanded goal and an assist Thursday, said the homestand is "huge, especially if we want to stay in the playoff race."

It was the Flyers' first game since returning from a 1-2-2 road trip.

"We can take all the confidence we can get right now," said backup goalie Ray Emery, who improved his record to 5-4-1 on Thursday. "At the end of the road trip, I thought we were playing better. We got some points, but more importantly, we started playing the right way. In spurts."

Breakaways. Vinny Lecavalier, a "healthy" scratch the last five games, missed practice Friday because of what GM Ron Hextall called a "tweaked" lower-body injury. . . . Kimmo Timonen was named the Good Guy winner and will be among the honorees at the Philadelphia Sports Writers' 111th annual banquet Jan. 16 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Cherry Hill.