Wells Fargo Center 11/4/14

Here's the view from the Wells Fargo Center press box before the Flyers-Edmonton Oilers' game on Tuesday night. (Randy Miller)

PHILADELPHIA — Hearing a reporter bring up Carlo Colaiacovo's name at his locker Tuesday, Edmonton Oilers right wing David Perron shot back a question of his own.

"Is he playing tonight?"

Yes.

"He is? Nice!"

Perron is a big fan of the Flyers new defenseman, an unrestricted free agent from July 1 until signing a two-way contract last Thursday.

For four seasons in St. Louis, they were teammates. On Tuesday night, they'll be opponents for the Flyers' 7 p.m. game with the Oilers at Wells Fargo Center.

"He's one of the better guys you can sign now," Perron said of Colaiacovo, who will debut with the Flyers after two practices. "It's actually unreal that he was unsigned until now. For me, he's a really good player."

Perron, whose 28 goals last season tied for the Oilers' lead, says that he always felt bad about Colaiacovo missing so many games due to a bunch of injuries.

"Obviously, he's had some tough luck injury wise," Perron said. "A lot of stuff happened. But he found his way back into the league this year with the Flyers. He's a guy that played with (Blues star Alex) Pietrangelo a lot on the top pair in St. Louis. I think he can take a lot of minutes and I guess for his situation right now, he's a really good pickup."

Here are the projected lineups:

FLYERS

Forward lines

12 Michael Raffl, 28 Claude Giroux, 93 Jakub Voracek

18 R.J. Umberger, 40 Vincent Lecavalier, 17 Wayne Simmonds

10 Brayden Schenn, 14 Sean Couturier, 24 Matt Read

36 Zac Rinaldo, 78 Pierre-Edouard Bellemare, 76 Chris VandeVelde

Defense pairs

8 Nicklas Grossmann, 32 Mark Streit

15 Michael Del Zotto, 55 Nick Schultz

26 Carlo Colaiacovo, 22 Luke Schenn

Goaltender

35 Steve Mason

OILERS

Forward lines

67 Benoit Pouliot, 93 Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, 14 Jordan Eberle

16 Teddy Purcell, 26 Mark Arcobello, 57 David Perron

23 Matt Hendricks, 29 Leon Draisalti, 10 Nail Yakupov

6 Jesse Joensuu, 27 Boyd Gordon, 41 Will Acton

Defense pairs

85 Martin Marincin, 2 Jeff Petry

84 Oscar Klefbom, 5 Mark Fayne

86 Nikita Nikitin, 19 Justin Schultz

Goaltender

35 Viktor Fasth

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