PHILADELPHIA — Everyone connected to the Flyers was reminded Thursday how important it is to have a legitimate NHL-level goaltender at the ready.

The Flyers placed one of their starting netminders, Sam Ersson, on injured reserve after he got banged up in Wednesday’s practice at the Flyers Training Center in Voorhees, N.J.

According to general manager Daniel Briere, Ersson will be out a minimum of a week and possibly more.

With the Flyers playing three games in four nights, that’s probably too much to ask of their other goaltender, Dan Vladar, especially with back-to-back games coming up this weekend against Toronto and Calgary.

So the team called up Aleksei Kolosov, 23, from the Lehigh Valley Phantoms to back up Vladar for Thursday night’s game against the Nashville Predators.

Kolosov

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