Flyers Recall Scott Laughton From Lehigh Valley After Giroux Injury

Not too long after confirming that Claude Giroux sustained a lower-body injury and will be out for a few days, the Flyers recalled Scott Laughton from the Lehigh Valley Phantoms and will be making his season debut tonight against the Rangers (Rivalry Night, bitches). I guess the move kind of makes you wonder about how serious Giroux’s injury really is but I’m just gonna assume that Hexy had the same thought process behind this call up as he with Ghostisbehere. I wouldn’t be surprised if we only saw Laughton for 2-3 games, but the kid’s also been killing it in LV this season. Through 13 games so far he’s got 11 points on 6 goals, 5 assists. Not too shabby at all.

A lot of people were hoping Laughton would step right in and work with the first line as the center between Schenn and Voracek. Apparently Berube hates everyone and has decided to keep Umberger with the top line for now and has Laughton between Bellemare and Vinny. At least that’s what the morning skate says. Lecavalier has been pretty much worse than invisible out there lately but this might be a line that works well. I don’t know, I’m kind of just trying to talk myself off a ledge right now after hearing that Umberger is still on the top line.

Couple of quick notes on the game tonight:

1) Tonight will be the first time Michael Del Zotto will play in MSG since he was a Ranger. I’m guessing they already have a few different tribute videos to play on the big screen for him planned out.

2) The Flyers will be wearing their Winter Classic thirds tonight. They didn’t exactly bring any luck to the team on New Year’s Day 2012, but expect a different outcome tonight.