Tonight at 7:30 p.m. ET, the Calgary Flames (17-9-2, 36 points) and Toronto Maple Leafs (14-9-3, 31 points) take the ice live from the Air Canada Centre in Toronto for the first of two meetings this season. The game can be live streamed here. Calgary fans can hear all of the action on Sportsnet 960 while Toronto fans can do the same on TSN 1050.
Calgary enters play in third place in the Pacific Division and had a four-game winning streak snapped last time out while Toronto owns the top wild-card spot in the Eastern Conference and searches for its second straight win.
The Flames are coming off of a 3-2 loss to the San Jose Sharks on Saturday and tonight will mark the return to the Air Canada Centre for former Maple Leaf and Toronto native Matt Stajan.
"Through your whole life, whenever you have a setback or a team gives up on you, when you play against them you want to show them they made a mistake," Stajan said via NHL.com. "It's the competitiveness in all of us. To be playing at this level you have to have that competitiveness, so you want to give it back to your former team."
Flames defenseman Mark Giordano is tied for third in the NHL in assists (21) and leads the team in points (28) while Jiri Hudler has 11 goals and 15 assists for 26 points.
The Maple Leafs are coming off of a 5-2 victory over the Vancouver Canucks on Saturday and tonight captain Dion Phaneuf faces the team that drafted him.
"I think for me it's always special to remember the times there," Phaneuf told NHL.com of Calgary. "It's where I started my career and it means something to me any time you play a former team."
Phil Kessel has paced the Maple Leafs with 27 points off of 13 goals and 14 assists while Tyler Bozak has 11 markers and 13 helpers for 24 points and James van Riemsdyk has 21 points by way of finding the twine 10 times and adding 11 assists.
In net, Toronto is likely to turn to Jonathan Bernier and he is 10-6-3 with a 2.72 goals-against average and a .916 save percentage.
Calgary is likely to counter with Jonas Hiller in the crease and he is 9-6-1 with a 2.49 GAA and a .913 save percentage.
The Flames and Maple Leafs meet for the first time this season when the lights come up tonight at the Air Canada Centre in Toronto.
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