Flyers Notes: Flyers' Scott Hartnell says movie role gave him a workout
Flyers winger Scott Hartnell has a cameo - and some lines - in the recent movie This Is 40 and says working in the film industry is more difficult than he had imagined.
Flyers winger Scott Hartnell has a cameo - and some lines - in the recent movie This Is 40 and says working in the film industry is more difficult than he had imagined.
"I'll tell you one thing - I have a lot more respect for movie stars and directors and people like that," Hartnell said Wednesday after an informal practice in Voorhees. "We were on the set for 16 hours. It was a really, really long day for the minute or minute and a half we were in the movie."
Hartnell is in a scene with Ian Laperriere, the Flyers' director of player development, and former Flyers James van Riemsdyk and Matt Carle. The scene was filmed in August 2011.
"To see my face on a big screen was weird the first time," he said.
How would he grade his performance?
"If you go by my Twitter mentions by all the fans out there, I think I have a second career after hockey," he joked.
Laperriere said that of the four with a Flyers connection in the movie, Hartnell is the only one who wants to go into show business.
"He's full of beep," Hartnell said with a laugh.
Players arriving
Jake Voracek, Ruslan Fedotenko, Bruno Gervais, and Luke Schenn joined the Flyers at their training facility. The first three played in Europe during the lockout.
Voracek could be on the top line with Hartnell and Claude Giroux.
"I played there a couple times last year when [Jaromir Jagr] was hurt," Voracek said. "I think we worked pretty well."
Gervais has known the Flyers' Max Talbot since he was 10. Talbot was in Gervais' wedding party this summer.
"Our parents know each other real well," Gervais said. "They're trouble when they get together and we babysit them a little bit."
Fedotenko, back for a second tour with the Flyers, was a linemate with Talbot and Evgeni Malkin when Pittsburgh won the 2009 Stanley Cup. Fedotenko was also on Tampa Bay's 2004 Cup champion.
The season opener
An NHL source said it's virtually certain the Flyers will open the season by hosting the Penguins at 3 p.m. on Jan. 19.
Penn State faces Vermont at the Wells Fargo Center at 7:30 that night. But the time of that game can be moved back, the source said.
Breakaways
Voracek said he is 100 percent healthy after spraining his left knee early in the season in Russia. . . . Tom Sestito, expected to battle for a fourth-line winger spot, has the mumps, the Flyers said.