Tonight at 7:00 p.m. ET, the Anaheim Ducks (10-3-0, 20 points) and Boston Bruins (7-4-0, 14 points) hit the ice for the first of two meetings live from the TD Garden in Boston. The game can be live streamed here. Anaheim fans can hear all the action on KLAA-AM 830 while Boson fans can do the same by tuning into WBZM-FM 98.5.
Anaheim enters play in second place in the Pacific Division, just two points shy of the division-leading San Jose Sharks while the Bruins are in fifth place in the Atlantic Division, six points behind the first place Toronto Maple Leafs.
The Ducks continue their eight-game road trip tonight and have won eight out of their last ten games, but they'll be without Teemu Selanne, who will undergo oral surgery after an injury sustained in a 3-2 victory against the Philadelphia Flyers Tuesday night. Selanne became the fourth Ducks forward to be sidelined during the trip, and due to the rash of injuries, forwards such as Nick Bonino are seeing more opportunities as he's notched eight points on the year.
The Bruins, meanwhile, dropped the first game of their back-to-back in a 2-1 loss on the road against the Pittsburgh Penguins yesterday and it's uncertain if Tuuka Rask will play back-to-back games as the team looks to shake off its second loss in a row and avoid its third straight loss.
"We didn't play to our identity," Bruins coach Claude Julien told The Associated Press after the loss to the Penguins. "We didn't play a heavy game for two periods tonight. We had to play three periods like we did in the third and that wasn't the case."
Rask suffered the loss, dropping his record to 6-4-0 while his 1.71 goals-against average ranks third in the NHL and his .943 save percentage ranks fifth. Jonas Hiller has played most nights in the crease for the Ducks, compiling a 5-2-0 record with a 2.56 GAA and a .913 save percentage.
Hiller will look to stymie a Bruins offense led by Milan Lucic (six goals, six assists) and David Krejci (two goals, 10 assists) who each have 12 points. Anaheim's top scorers that are healthy include Corey Perry (6-7-13) and Ryan Getzlaf (5-8-13).
The Bruins look to avoid losing three games in a row while the Ducks look to continue their recent successful string despite being banged up when the lights come on at TD Bank Garden in Boston tonight.
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