Tonight at 7 p.m. ET, the Philadelphia Flyers and Washington Capitals faceoff in preseason action live from the Verizon Center in Washington, D.C. The game can be live streamed here. Philadelphia fans can hear all of the action on 97.5 The Fanatic while Washington fans can do the same on WFED 1100.
Philadelphia closes out its preseason schedule that it is currently 3-4 on while Washington plays its second-to-last matchup on its exhibition slate, which it is 3-3 on thus far. These teams finished four points apart in the Metropolitan Division standings last year.
The Flyers are coming off of a season where the team finished 42-30-10 with 94 points before being bounced from the Stanley Cup Playoffs by the eventual Eastern Conference champion New York Rangers in seven games in the opening round.
Captain Claude Giroux paced Philadelphia last season with 86 points off of 28 goals and 58 assists and was a finalist for the NHL's Hart Trophy.
Jakub Voracek was second on the team with 62 points off of 23 tallies and 39 helpers while Wayne Simmonds found the twine 29 times and added 31 assists to rank third on the team with 60 points.
Giroux made his preseason debut Tuesday in the Flyers' 4-2 home win against the Rangers. Coach Craig Berube decided to limit Giroux's minutes in the third period to protect him in his first game back from a lower-body injury.
"That's my call," Berube told The Courier-Post. "I didn't want to push it too much."
The Capitals stumbled to a 38-30-14 record and 90 points in 2013-14, missing the playoffs for the first time since the 2006-07 campaign.
Captain Alex Ovechkin (51 goals, 28 assists) and Nicklas Backstrom (18 markers, 61 helpers) tied for the Washington lead with 79 points last season.
The Caps expect big things out of Ovechkin this season.
"If Ovi is willing to listen," new coach Barry Trotz told USA Today, "he's going to have a chance to do some great team things. And he is willing to listen."
Two Metropolitan Division rivals go head-to-head when the Flyers and Capitals take the ice tonight at Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia.
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