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Healthy scratch mystery solved as Evgeny Medvedev heads home with upper-body injury

Evgeny Medvedev will not be a healthy scratch for tonight's game against the Edmonton Oilers. Instead, he'll fly back to Philadelphia to be evaluated for an upper-body injury.

Earlier this afternoon, the beat writers following the Philadelphia Flyers on their west coast road trip broke the news that Evgeny Medvedev would miss his second straight game, presumably as a healthy scratch.

Hours later, the team corrected that assumption.

Evgeny Medvedev is flying back to Philadelphia with an upper-body injury, according to GM Ron Hextall. Read more→ https://t.co/I6HmlS0jvi

— Philadelphia Flyers (@NHLFlyers) November 3, 2015

Medvedev was sent home due to an upper-body injury of unknown severity, and will miss tonight's game against the Edmonton Oilers as a result.