"Peter Laviolette said Tuesday that the struggling Ilya Bryzgalov will be back in the Flyers net either Friday night in Anaheim or Saturday night in Phoenix.

"We'll get Bryz going this weekend," said the coach. "Bryz is the No. 1 goalie, but we gave [Sergei Bobrovsky] an opportunity because he did what we asked. He came in off the bench (down 3-1 at Long Island) and got us a (4-3 overtime) win. He came back the next night and let in one goal (3-1 won over Montreal) and played really well.

"I think there's times when you can earn things as well. If Bryz would have come back in that Rangers game, he would have been off the ice a couple of days and we didn't have an opportunity to practice because of the (back-to-back) afternoon games, so we had a guy who was on the ice and playing games and active and decided to hold off.""