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PHILADELPHIA -- A banner will be raised and a video tribute played Thursday night at Wells Fargo Center, where the Philadelphia Flyers will play their first-ever season opener -- a scheduled 7 p.m. start against the Anaheim Ducks -- without their late founder, Ed Snider, who died in April after a long battle with bladder cancer.The Flyers dedicated their playoff series last year to Snider and fought valiantly in a six-game series defeat. They paid tribute to Snider in their home playoff opener and will do so again Thursday.He was the heart and soul of this organization, said suspended defenseman Radko Gudas on Wednesday, according to Calkins Media. We appreciate everything he did for this team. The whole city wants to get another chance to thank him.I think this is a great opportunity to pay our respects to him.Sniders name will live on in the memories of many, and hell have a special place alongside other Flyers banners hanging from the Wells Fargo Center ceiling.Its going to be a big night and Im excited about it, said general manager Ron Hextall, per Calkins Media. He certainly deserves it. Hopefully things go off well. I would like to win a game for him.The Flyers (1-1-1), coming off a 7-4 loss in Chicago, welcome back Brayden Schenn, who was suspended the first three games of the season for a hit he made in the playoffs last season. Schenns return was supposed to help balance out Philadelphias top three lines. But the Flyers learned Wednesday that first-line winger Michael Raffl would 10-14 days with what the team is calling an upper-body injury. It was likely Schenn would take over for Raffl on the top line with Claude Giroux and Wayne Simmonds anyway, but now coach Dave Hakstol doesnt have to shake up much else with Raffl out.Philadelphia hosts a Ducks (0-3-1) team playing their fifth consecutive road game to start the year. Theyre still trying to find their first win after Tuesdays 2-1 loss in New Jersey.And Tuesdays loss was aided by a familiar theme in Anaheim: self-infliction.The Ducks, who have been outscored 12-7 to start the year, committed seven penalties, including five in the second period to drop their fourth straight game.We talked about it from the start of the season, that discipline was going to have to be a focal point for our group, Ducks coach Randy Carlyle said, according to the Orange County Register. And if we werent going to be more disciplined -- and our history has been that weve been one of the most penalized or a majority of this group has been one of the most penalized teams minor-wise in the league -- youre not going to be a quality team, a playoff team if youre going to continue to do that.Per the Register, Carlyle put his team through a rough practice Wednesday.I really dont think you can be silent, Carlyle said. You have to be matter of the fact and you have to be about why. What youre presenting. Why? ... The video doesnt lie in what were doing.As we stated this morning, theres some areas that we designated that we want to improve on. Because obviously our offense hasnt been there. To carry our offense, we have to get stingier on the defensive side of it. Wholesale NHL Jerseys . The injury bothered Bledsoe in the Suns victory over the Clippers on Monday and he sat out the teams home loss to Memphis on Thursday night. 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LOUDON, N.H. -- Four-time Sprint Cup champion?Jeff Gordon will return to the racetrack at Indianapolis Motor Speedway if Dale Earnhardt Jr.?doesnt recover from his concussion-like symptoms in time for the race July 24.Earnhardt, who is being treated, has been replaced by Alex Bowman?this weekend at New Hampshire Motor?Speedway. Hendrick Motorsports general manager Doug Duchardt said Friday morning that a decision likely would be made by Wednesday.Gordon, an equity owner in Hendrick Motorsports, retired after last season following a career that spanned 23 years with 93 wins in 797 starts. He worked the first half of the season for Fox Sports as a race broadcast analyst. He tweeted Thursday he was in France.The winner of the first Brickyard 400 in 1994, Gordon has won a record five Sprint Cup races at Indianapolis -- 1994, 1998, 2001, 2004 and 2014.Hes a four-time [Sprint Cup] champion with 93 wins -- hes not a bad person to think about to get in the car, Duchardt said Friday morning at New Hampshire. This week, hes in France. ... If Dale is not able to go at Indianapolis, well put Jeff Gordon in the car.When Dale is ready, its his car to get back into.Duchardt said the team did not know until Tuesday that Earnhardt -- who thought he was suffering from allergies or a sinus infection -- might need a relief driver for this weekend and then didnt know until noon Thursday, after Earnhardt underwent two days of neurological tests, that the driver would not be able to race at all.Earnhardt missed two races in 2012 because of two concussions over a six-week period. In a statement Thursday, Earnhardt said he believed wrecks June 12 at Michigan and July 2 at Daytona could have resulted in concussions.Duchardt would not speculate over whether this could be a career-ending injury to Earnhardt, nor would he estimate how long Earnhardt would be out.The most important thing is for this process to play out for him to feel better, Duchardt said. At the end of all that, whats thee right thing to do, that will become clear when more knowledge is gained as how he is feeling.ddddddddddddWith eight races left in NASCARs regular season, Earnhardt is 14th in the Chase-qualifying standings, and missing more than one race would heavily affect his chances of getting into the 16-driver Chase.Duchardt wouldnt say whether Earnhardts playoff chances would influence a decision for the rest of the season.We just want to take it one race at a time, Duchardt said. Any speculation past [Indy] is assuming that Dale is not going to be ready for that amount of time. Well obviously be thinking about contingency plans, but we dont have anything formalized for sure. ... As we gain information through this, well look at the scenario, whether its short term or long term.Until we get to that point, Im not going to speculate what were going to do.Gordon has run in every Brickyard race since the inaugural event in 1994. He has five wins, 17 top-10s and an average finish of 9.9. Formula Ones Michael Schumacher is the only other driver to reach Victory Lane at Indy five times in any major series.Defending Brickyard 400 winner Kyle Busch said he didnt expect Gordon to have any problem getting back in the race car, if need be, for the first time since November.Jeff always said when he was stepping to the side that he was not retiring, so I think that is pretty neat that theres an opportunity there for him to come back and race probably in one of his favorite races -- given that hes somewhat of a hometown boy when he goes to Indiana, Busch said.If that all comes to fruition, I do feel Jeff can jump right back in. ... He would be able to handle it just fine. Hes been around the sport all this year.The Combat Wounded Coalition 400 at The Brickyard presented by Crown Royal is set for July 24.ESPN Stats & Information contributed to this report. ' ' '