Tonight at 7:30 p.m. ET, the Philadelphia Flyers (21-17-4, 46 points) and New Jersey Devils (17-18-8, 42 points) hit the ice at the Prudential Center in New Jersey for the third of four meetings against each other this season. The game can be live streamed here. Philadelphia fans can hear all of the action on 97.5 The Fanatic while New Jersey fans can do the same on 101.9 WFAN.
Philadelphia is coming off of a five-game West Coast trip that saw the team earn eight of a possible 10 points while New Jersey enters play coming off of losing the second game of a back-to-back. The teams have swapped shutouts with the Flyers defeating the Devils 1-0 on Nov. 2 in New Jersey and the Devils gaining revenge with a 3-0 win on Nov. 7 in Philadelphia.
The Flyers have turned around their early-season woes and capped off their great swing out west with a 5-3 victory over the Phoenix Coyotes on Saturday.
"We have a very good chemistry," Jakub Voracek told The Philadelphia Inquirer. "It's a very hardworking team over here, and in the beginning of the season we would just fold, but right now we believe in ourselves that we can come back."
Voracek is second on the team with 29 points off of 10 goals and 19 assists while captain Claude Giroux leads the team with 38 points by finding the twine 12 times and adding 26 assists and Wayne Simmonds has 14 tallies and 14 helpers for 28 points. Simmonds has eight goals and 12 points over his last eight games.
The Devils are coming off of a 2-1 loss Saturday at the hands of the Buffalo Sabres that saw goalie Cory Schneider lose for the 14th time in his last 19 starts.
"It's one thing to lose to a team like Chicago [on Friday]," Schneider told The Newark Star-Ledger. "You tip your cap to them and say they're a good team. No disrespect to Buffalo. They're playing really hard. They've got some guys missing. They're standing their ground on home ice. But I think for us, after having lost [to Chicago], this is a game that we had to find a way to win."
Martin Brodeur will get the start tonight and is 12-9-3 with a 2.36 goals-against average and a .903 save percentage. He'll likely be opposed by Steve Mason, who has lost in regulation just three times since Nov. 5 and is 17-10-4 with a 2.39 GAA and a .922 save percentage.
If Mason gets the nod, he'll have to try and stop a New Jersey unit that is led by Jaromir Jagr, who has 34 points off of 13 goals and 21 assists while Marek Zidlicky has lit the lamp seven times and added 15 helpers for 22 points. Patrik Elias is second on the team with 25 points off of seven goals and 18 assists, but he was placed on the injured reserve with an upper-body injury.
The Flyers look to keep on rolling while the Devils hope to bounce back from a tough loss when the lights come up at the Prudential Center in New Jersey tonight.
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