Tonight at 8 p.m. ET, the Philadelphia Flyers (1-3-2, four points) and Pittsburgh Penguins (3-1-0, six points) face-off for the first of four meetings against each other live from Consol Energy Center in Pittsburgh. The game can be live streamed for free here. Philadelphia fans can hear all of the action on 97.1 The Ticket while Pittsburgh fans can do the same on 105.9 WXDX.
Philadelphia has dropped five of its first six games and is coming off of a 4-0 loss to the Chicago Blackhawks on Tuesday that came on the heels of its victory win of the season while Pittsburgh has won three of four to start the campaign and defeated the New York Islanders 3-1 Saturday in its last time out.
The Flyers were doomed by a slow start against the Blackhawks on Tuesday and will look to bounce back against a team that ranks first in the league in goals per game (4.0) and power play percentage (47.1 percent).
"Our first period, offensively, was brutal," Jakub Voracek said after Tuesday's game via CSN Philly. "20 shots on our net is too many. Chicago can score and that's exactly what they did."
Voracek (two goals, five assists) is one of three Philadelphia players that has a team-best seven points. Wayne Simmonds (five markers, two helpers) and Claude Giroux (two goals, five assists) each have seven points this season.
The Penguins are coming off of a game against the Islanders where Patric Hornqvist scored two goals and added an assist while Evgeni Malkin had a tally and a helper and captain Sidney Crosby notched two assists.
Crosby expects a tough game out of the Flyers after their rocky start to the season.
"[The Flyers will be] pretty motivated, I think," he told NHL.com. "Regardless of whether they've won five in a row or lost [Tuesday], I think these games bring out the best in both teams and I would expect their best [Wednesday]."
Crosby leads the Penguins with nine points off of four goals and five assists while Hornqvist has four markers and four helpers for eight points and Malkin has found the back of the net twice and added five assists for seven points.
The Penguins will likely face Steve Emery in net tonight on the second game of a back-to-back. Emery is 1-0-1 through two starts this season and has allowed four goals on 43 shots.
Mark-Andre Fleury will likely man the crease for Pittsburgh after going 3-1-0 thus far with a 2.50 goals-against average and .915 save percentage.
It's rivalry night when the puck drops on the Flyers and Penguins tonight at the Consol Energy Center in Pittsburgh.
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