Tonight at 7:30 p.m. ET, the Minnesota Wild (20-13-5, 45 points) and Philadelphia Flyers (16-16-4, 36 points) hit the ice at the Wells Fargo Center for the second and final meeting against each other this season. The game can be live streamed here. Minnesota fans can hear all of the action on KFAN 100.3 while Philadelphia fans can do the same on 97.5 The Fanatic.
Minnesota enters play hoping to salvage the last game of a three-game road trip after dropping the first two contests while Philadelphia comes in off of suffering a loss to split a home-and-home with the St. Louis Blues. The first time these two teams met, the Wild blanked the Flyers 2-0 on Dec. 2 in MInnesota.
The Wild are coming off of a 4-1 loss to the New York Rangers on Sunday night.
"I think once they scored that first one, and then especially when they got that second one, I think we became a little demoralized and kind of changed the way we were playing the game," Zach Parise told NHL.com. "That was for the most part I thought the big difference. Once they got that second goal, we became a little flustered and just were never able to regain any momentum."
The Wild have been led by Parise (15-12-27), Mikko Koivu (7-20-27) and Jason Pominville (17-8-25) thus far this season. Pominville has goals in back-to-back games.
After beating the Blues in the first half of a home-and-home, the Flyers allowed four goals in the third period and lost 6-3 Saturday night.
"We were sitting back too much, maybe asleep in the third period," Flyers defenseman Luke Schenn told CSNPhilly.com. "We had a pretty good end to the second period. I don't know if we thought they would just give up. I don't know what it was, but it was unacceptable to come out in the third period like that."
The Flyers have been led by Claude Giroux (9-22-31), Jakub Voracek (9-14-23) and Wayne Simmonds (8-11-19). Simmonds has three goals and one assist in his last three games.
Steve Mason is likely to start for Philadelphia and is 13-9-4 with a 2.40 goals-against average and a .922 save percentage while with Josh Harding (multiple sclerosis treatment) sidelined, Niklas Backstrom will likely start for Minnesota and is 2-7-2 with a 3.19 GAA and a .895 save percentage.
The Wild will try to salvage their final road game before the Christmas break while the Flyers will look to bounce back from a loss when these teams faceoff tonight in Philadelphia.
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