Canucks at Flyers

4 p.m. PDT, Wells Fargo Center

TV: Sportsnet; Radio: Team 1040

PHILADELPHIA -- There was no tap on the shoulder or pep talk from the coach. Jordan Schroeder simply walked into the visitors dressing room at the Wells Fargo Center this morning and saw his number on the board.

Just like that, and after only one practice, Schroeder is back in the Vancouver Canucks' lineup after missing about four weeks with a fractured foot.

"I just walked in, saw my number on the board and in the lineup," Schroeder said. "I prepared last night like I was going to play so it's a good thing I did that."

Head coach John Tortorella would not say where Schroeder will play when the Canucks begin a seven-game road trip tonight against the Philadelphia Flyers. But it's a safe bet that Schroeder will replace Zac Dalpe. He''ll either skate with Tom Sestito and Dale Weise on the fourth line or could also move up to the third line and centre David Booth and Zack Kassian.

Schroeder has been out since fracturing a foot while blocking a shot in a Sept. 21 pre-season game in Edmonton. He participated in his first full practice Monday in Philadelphia.

"One practice and I am right back in it," Schroeder said. "It's fun. That's what you want. You want to play games, you don't want to practise all year. I am excited and really looking forward to it."

The Canucks begin their trip against a Flyers team that has had more coaches than wins this season. To the Canucks, that spells trouble.

"They're a desperate team, I think, a team that is going to come out and throw everything at us and be physical," defenceman Kevin Bieksa said of the Flyers.

"They have a new head coach and will be attempting to make their mark and impress him. It's going to be a tough game, not an easy game, that's for sure."

The Flyers have just just one win in their first six starts this season and have scored only eight goals. They are 1-2 under new head coach Craig Berube, who replaced Peter Laviolette after the Flyers opened the season with three straight losses.

Berube, a tough-as-nails player who accumulated 3,149 penalty minutes in 1,054 NHL games, now finds himself preaching discipline to his players.

Asked how he can get his players to stop taking bad penalties, Berube smiled and said: "Don't watch me play."

The Flyers were burned for three power-play goals in a 5-2 loss to Detroit on Saturday night and Berube said the culture simply has to change in Philadelphia.

"The Flyers have a reputation, we all know that, and it's got to change," Berube said. "It's 2013 and you can't keep going to the penalty box and doing stupid things out there.

"A lot of it is the hooking and holding for me. It's unacceptable. Your feet have got to move. You can't be hooking and holding and any stick that goes into the midsection or around there they are going to give you a penalty."