The Flyers haven’t played since last Sunday, with four-straight games postponed due to COVID-19. Multiple players are currently on the list.

Tuesday, Alain Vigneault was asked if he expects to have any of those players available for Thursday night’s game against the Rangers.

“No,” was the one-word answer.

The COVID list currently features Travis Konecny, Claude Giroux, Oskar Lindblom, Jake Voracek, Scott Laughton, Morgan Frost (already out with shoulder injury), and Justin Braun. Travis Sanheim was removed from the list.

That’s a lot of production missing from the lineup, and the Flyers are gonna have to go down the depth chart on Thursday night.

“Guys are going to have to jump on the opportunity and make the best of it,” Vigneault said. ” We should have a full practice tomorrow with the group that is available to us, and that will be the group that is going to play against the Rangers on Thursday. We might have different possibilities, dress 6 and 12, 7 and 11. We’ll see how practice goes tomorrow. We basically haven’t seen anybody for the past week, we’ve been in lockdown. Other than coming in in the morning and some days it’s one test, other days it was two, we’ve just been in and out. Originally I thought we would have more than one full day of practice to get ready, but that was changed yesterday. It is what it is, and what it is is a full team practice tomorrow, morning skate on Thursday, play Thursday night. So we’ve got to be ready for that.”

Vigneault noted that he and Chuck Fletcher have been in contact with the COVID-listed players, explaining that some have had “very minimal” symptoms or no symptoms at all.

Last week, the team basically came in and went home.

“We came in every morning between 9:30 and 10:30, some days we had one test we had to do, other days we had two,” Vigneault said. “We came in through the front door, there was an area blocked out, we did our testing, got back in our vehicles and went home. That’s what the mandate was from the league. We’ve been following all the protocols, and we’ve been following everything to the letter. I‘m not exactly sure how this came about, how unfortunately we got a case that led to two that led to obviously more, but somehow it happened. In our group one of the guys that I thought put the most emphasis on the mask and washing his hands and doing all the right things, social distancing, we have no idea how he got COVID but he still got COVID. Let’s hope that the ones that do get it stay healthy, which is what has happened so far, and let’s hope that this is it and we get back to playing some hockey. We’ve got four games that we’ve got to make up in a very condensed schedule already. We’ve got basically very limited practice time to get ourselves ready for Thursday and then we’ve got to fly five hours to Lake Tahoe to go play a noon game. So not a lot of time but it is what it is like I mentioned a few minutes ago. We’ve got to deal with it and we’ve got to deal with it head-on.”