* Defenseman Shayne Gostisbehere will miss his third straight game tonight, and likely fourth straight on Saturday with his lower-body injury, announced interim head coach Scott Gordon.

* Despite Anthony Stolarz being first off the ice, Carter Hart will get the start in net tonight. He is coming off one of his best performances of the year two games ago when he stopped 31 of 32 shots en route to a 3-1 win over Winnipeg... He has also won his last four starts.

After a full day away from the rink on Wednesday due to playing the back-to-back, the Flyers held a morning skate at TD Garden. Below are some newsworthy items to come out of the session:

On the defensive side of things, one player who has picked up his game, and a lot more minutes, is Ivan Provorov. He has been a +4 in his last five games, posted three assists and logged an average of over 25 minutes of ice time in that span, including a high of 28:03 against the Jets on Monday.

* Provorov was also the sole defenseman on the Flyers first power-play unit at this morning's practice, which is a change from the previous games in which the club used a five forward PP1 unit.

PROVOROV: "We made some changes to our system defensively and in the neutral zone so it took us some time to adjust, but now it's paying off and we're giving up less goals."

* The changes he was referring to was a forecheck that is a 1-3-1 through the neutral zone. The Flyers have given up just three goals in total in the last three games. Gordon deployed that format with the Phantoms so there is some familiarity there.

GORDON: "There's a lot of things you can do with a 1-2-2 and there are teams that are successful at it. I just felt like we were giving up a lot off the rush and we weren't confronting a lot of pucks on entries. There's giveaways and takeaways with every forecheck."

On making the switch:

GORDON: "It's tough, I came in and we play well the first four games and I couldn't justify changing it, and then as we went along, I started to see some of the holes in what we were doing. The way we were playing the 1-2-2 wouldn't have been the way I would have played it - I would have modified that if I thought that was the right forecheck but I also thought there were some benefits to play it the way we've been playing it."

* One other item of note, goaltender Brian Elliott took to the ice for the first time in full equipment with the team. He has been sidelined since leaving with injury on Nov. 15 vs. NJ, missing the last 31 games.

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The Bruins held their skate at their practice facility, the Warrior Ice Arena a few miles away.

* Bruins head coach Bruce Cassidy confirmed that Tuukka Rask will get the start tonight. It's his first game action since suffering a concussion on Jan. 19. Due to the bye week and NHL All-Star Break, he only missed one game.

CASSIDY: "We trust him. If he's not ready, it's fine. He's coming off a pretty serious hit there. When he's ready we said he'll go back in and that's about it."

Rask is 14-8-3 this season with a 2.43 GAA and .919 save percentage, but owns an even more impressive record against the Flyers - going 14-2-3 with a 1.99 GAA and .930 save percentage. He has yet to face the Flyers this season as Jaroslav Halak took both starts.

* Rask isn't the only one back in - forward Joakim Nordstrom re-enters the lineup after missing 10 games with a fractured fibula he suffered in the Winter Classic on Jan. 1. He will most likely slot in on the fourth line on the left side.

Puck drop is 7 p.m. on the NBC Sports Philadelphia Plus network tonight, or listen live on 97.5 The Fanatic.