No Wayne Simmonds on the bench for the #Flyers. He took a puck to the face in warmups.
Doesn't sound like Simmonds will play tonight due to the unexpected injury. The big right wing has 18 goals and 34 points in his first 56 games with the Flyers.
Simmonds moves back up to the second line. In his first season with the Flyers, the power forward has scored four goals and eight points with 40 PIM through 23 games.
The Philadelphia Flyers came to terms with restricted free agent forward Wayne Simmonds today on a 2-year contract extension worth $1.75 million per year (per CSNPhilly’s Tim Panaccio on Twitter).
Kings have traded Brayden Schenn, Wayne Simmonds and a 2012 second-round draft pick to Philadelphia for Mike Richards and a young forward named Rob Bordson.