This is important to note because the Flyers have been out-chanced in all four of their games this season and out-attempted in all but one.

There is no better time than the present to get the 5-on-5 offense clicking.

One player who needs to get going the most? Captain Sean Couturier, who sits one point away from 500 on his career and will play in his 800th NHL regular season game against the Canucks on Saturday.

He has one assist and five shots on goal in four games while averaging a career-low 12:46 of ice time.

The Flyers will trot out Sam Ersson between the pipes on Saturday, although he will not be as fresh as head coach John Tortorella would have hoped.

After Kevin Lankinen got the ‘W’ against the defending Stanley Cup champion Florida Panthers on Thursday night, it is assumed that Arturs Silovs will start against the Flyers on Saturday night.

Flyers Game Lineup

Travis Konecny – Morgan Frost – Matvei Michkov

Owen Tippett – Jett Luchanko – Tyson Foerster

Joel Farabee – Sean Couturier – Bobby Brink

Scott Laughton – Ryan Poehling – Garnet Hathaway

Cam York – Travis Sanheim

Egor Zamula – Rasmus Ristolainen

Erik Johnson – Jamie Drysdale

Sam Ersson (S), Ivan Fedotov

Canucks Game Lineup

Arshdeep Bains – J.T. Miller – Brock Boeser

Jake DeBrusk – Elias Pettersson – Conor Garland

Nils Hoglander – Teddy Blueger – Kiefer Sherwood

Danton Heinen – Pius Suter – Daniel Sprong

Quinn Hughes – Filip Hronek

Carson Soucy – Tyler Myers

Erik Brannstrom – Vincent Desharnais

Arturs Silovs (S), Kevin Lankinen

And now for some Flyers game notes, or otherwise observations:

Matvei Michkov (2-2-4) has four points in four career games, but all of them (yes, all of them) have come via the power play. Surprisingly, the power play has carried the Flyers to the little success they have had this season, because their 5-on-5 play has been dreadful.

Per Moneypuck, winger Owen Tippett and defenseman Rasmus Ristolainen are the only Flyers players with on-ice expected goals percentages greater than 50%. In layman’s terms, they are the only two guys who have not consistently gotten shelled with scoring chances against.

At the other end of the totem pole, Travis Sanheim (32.9%) and Joel Farabee (26.1%) are the two worst on the team so far. As established players, veterans, and key performers, they need to up their games in this early part of the season.

How to watch the Flyers game

Saturday night’s Flyers game against the Canucks can be watched on TV on Sportsnet (Hockey Night in Canada) and NBC Sports Philadelphia.

As for radio, broadcasts can be heard at 97.5 The Fanatic or Sportsnet 650.