Tonight at 8:00 p.m. ET, the New York Rangers and Philadelphia Flyers skate against each other for Game 3 of their best-of-seven Round 1 Stanley Cup Playoffs series live from Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia. The game can be live streamed for free here. New York fans can hear all of the action on 98.7 WEPN while Philadelphia fans can do the same on 97.5 The Fanatic.
New York picked up a Game 1 victory but squandered Game 2 as Philadelphia earned its first win at Madison Square Garden since 2011 and come home with the series tied. The Rangers won Game 1 by a 4-1 margin on Thursday then flushed away a 2-0 Game 2 lead and ultimately fell 4-1 on Easter Sunday.
The Rangers notched an NHL-best 25 road wins during the regular-season and will hope that their success away from Madison Square Garden transfers over to Philadelphia.
"If you look at our road record, we have that because we continue to play the same high-tempo, north/south type of game and rolling the lines quickly," coach Alain Vigneault said via NHL.com. "There are certain matchups that we are looking for. There are certain we don't want. Once we're in the flow and the guys are playing well and executing well, sometimes you're not as concerned about matchups as you are pace and tempo."
The Flyers feel good after evening the series in Game 2 and will hope to bring a 3-1 series lead back to New York with them by the time Game 5 rolls around. The team will look to be more disciplined as New York has already had 12 power plays in the first 12 games, though Philadelphia has killed nine.
"Let's just say we don't want to give them six power plays every game," coach Craig Berube told NHL.com. "We have to be better. We can't take penalties the way we are. You're going to get penalties in a game just because. But you can't take emotional, dumb ones and careless penalties. It's going to hurt you."
With Steve Mason still dealing with an upper-body injury, Ray Emery will suit up in net for the Flyers after allowing six goals on 69 shots through the first two games. He'll be opposed by Henrik Lundqvist, who has turned aside 35 shots while letting up four goals in the series' first two games.
Brad Richards and Martin St. Louis won the Stanley Cup together in 2004 with the Tampa Bay Lightning and are tied for the team-lead in points off of a goal and two assists each while four different players have two points.
Scott Hartnell has paced Philadelphia with two points off of two assists while five different players have at least one goal, including Wayne Simmonds and Jakub Voracek, who were two of the top scorers for the team in the regular season.
Each team looks for any edge it can get in the series when the lights come up at Wells Fargo Center on Game 3 of the best-of-seven Round 1 series between the Rangers and Flyers tonight in Philadelphia.
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