Tonight at 8:00 p.m. ET, the Philadelphia Flyers (7-10-1, 15 points) and the Winnipeg Jets (9-9-2, 20 points) hit the ice live from the MTS Centre in Winnipeg in the first of two meetings against each other this season. The game can be live streamed here. Philadelphia fans can hear all of the bone-crunching action by tuning their radios to 97.5 The Fanatic while Winnipeg fans can do the same on TSN 1290.
Both teams enter play off of three game winning steaks and will look to extend it to four at their opponents' expense.
Philadelphia defenseman Luke Schenn has turned his season around after being a healthy scratch earlier this month.
"The old saying is, 'The more you think out there, the more you're going to get yourself in trouble,'" Schenn told the Philadelphia Inquirer. "Instead of going out there and thinking, you should just play."
Winnipeg has reached the .500 plateau with their nine wins, but the team still wants more.
"That's not very significant for me," coach Claude Noel told the Winnipeg Free Press. "We've been on the wrong side of the [Stanley Cup Playoff] line for two years in a row. And if you look at the Western [Conference] it's going to take a little bit more than .500.
The Jets have been led offensively by Bryan Little, who has 11 goals and seven assists for 18 points and Andrew Ladd who has five tallies and 12 helpers for 17 points.
The Flyers counter with an offense that is led by Brayden Schenn, who has six goals and six assists for 12 points while Vincent Lecavalier (seven goals, three assists) and captain Claude Giroux (one tally, nine helpers) each have 10 points.
In net, Philadelphia has turned to Steve Mason in 13 of their 19 games while posting a 5-7-1 record along with a 2.15 GAA and a .930 save percentage while Ondrej Pavelec is 7-7-2 with a 2.85 GAA and a .913 save percentage.
Both teams enter play looking for their fourth straight victory when the Flyers and Jets hit the ice in Winnipeg tonight.
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