Poehling, who missed 11 games before the break after taking a dirty hit from Maxim Tsyplakov on Jan. 16, said “the toughest part is it’s not linear in terms of progress.”
The Flyers got two straight wins by a combined 12 goals and having outshot their opponents by a margin of 70-42. At the start of February, they had limped into the month banged up, on a run of three straight shutout losses, and losses in seven of their last eight until they salvaged a 3-2 win over the Penguins and finally got a rest.
Pelletier, meanwhile, was with Poehling and Matvei Michkov. That leaves the regular Noah Cates-Tyson Foerster-Bobby Brink line intact, and a fourth line of Sean Couturier, Garnet Hathaway and Nic Deslauriers.
The Flyers will activate center Ryan Poehling and defenseman Yegor Zamula ... by defenseman Rasmus Ristolainen and winger Owen Tippett, who missed time before the 4 Nations Face-Off break ...
Tippett missed five games before the 4 Nations ... Ristolainen could be on the move before the trade deadline on March 7. Poehling and Zamula were also out of the lineup with upper-body injuries.