Tonight at 7:30 p.m. ET the Philadelphia Flyers and Toronto Maple Leafs continue their preseason schedules with action live from the Air Canada Centre in Toronto. The game can be live streamed here. Philadelphia fans can hear all of th action on 97.5 The Fanatic while Toronto fans can do the same on TSN 1050.
The Maple Leafs are coming off of a season where they went 38-36-8 for 84 points and missed the playoffs for the eighth time in nine years while the Flyers went 42-30-10 (94 points) and made the playoffs for the sixth time in seven seasons before being bounced from the first round by the New York Rangers in seven games.
Toronto picked up a 3-2 shootout victory over Philadelphia Monday night.
According to MapleLeafs.com, here is the projected lineup for Toronto tonight.
Forward Lines: William Nylander-Mike Santorelli-Phil Kessel
James Van Riemsdyk-Trevor Smith-Joffrey Lupul
Leo Komarov-Greg McKegg-Brandon Kozun
David Broll-John McMillan-Colton Orr
Defensive Pairs: Dion Phaneuf-Cody Franson
Jake Gardiner-Roman Polak
Viktor Loov-Henrik Tallinder
Goalies: Jonathan Bernier
Antoine Bibeau
Maple Leafs assistant coach Peter Horachek believes Polak will be solid on the blue line.
"When you get into these defensive situations, you've got so many skilled players on the other team with so much speed, you've got to get the play to stop," Horachek told The National Post. "You've got to get them to stop their cycle and stop their play, so a guy like Roman Polak can use that size and strength. I think everyone has seen him out there a few times, where when he gets his hands on you, the play stops pretty quick."
According to Flyers.NHL.com, here is the Flyers roster for tonight:
FORWARDS
12 Michael Raffl
14 Sean Couturier
17 Wayne Simmonds
24 Matt Read
36 Zac Rinaldo
37 Jay Rosehill
42 Jason Akeson
45 Zack Stortini
46 Darroll Powe
49 Scott Laughton
52 Nick Cousins
64 Brandon Alderson
78 Pierre-Edouard Bellemare
DEFENSEMEN
15 Michael Del Zotto
22 Luke Schenn
38 Oliver Lauridsen
39 Mark Alt
43 Brandon Manning
50 Sam Morin
55 Nick Schultz
GOALTENDERS
35 Steve Mason
65 Anthony Stolarz
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