Flyers vs. Panthers preview: I guess we’re doing this again

Here we go again.

First it was Michael Raffl. Then Shayne Gostisbhere. Now, it’s Michael Del Zotto who will sit as a healthy scratch when the Philadelphia Flyers visit the Florida Panthers this evening in South Florida.

Coach Dave Hakstol is likely hoping to light a spark under Del Zotto here, as MDZ has been pretty brutal of late. This doesn’t rise to the level of outrage we experienced with the Ghost scratch last week. That said, the same threads are here: even with the way he’s playing of late, MDZ is a significantly better player than Andrew MacDonald, so it’s frustrating that the Flyers are willfully putting a less-than-ideal lineup on the ice against the Panthers.

The Panthers come into…