Tonight at 7:00 p.m. ET, the Anaheim Ducks (9-3-0) and Philadelphia Flyers (3-7-0) hit the ice against each other for the first time this season live from the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia. The game can be live streamed here. Anaheim fans can access all the action by adjusting their radios to AM 830 KLAA while Flyers fans can do the same on 97.5 FM the Fanatic
Anaheim enters this game in third place in the Pacific Division with 18 points and is just three points away from the division-leading San Jose Sharks while Philadelphia comes into the contest in seventh place in the Metropolitan Division with six points, 10 points behind the first place Pittsburgh Penguins.
The Ducks hit the halfway point of their eight-game road trip with a 4-3 victory over the Blue Jackets in Columbus on Sunday for their second straight win, but they lost Saku Koivu to a concussion during the game and he is out indefinitely. The team still may receive some good news on the injury front as Dustin Penner (concussion) and Mathieu Perreault (wrist) may return tonight.
"They're possibilities," Boudreau told NHL.com. "I don't know if their feasibilities, but they're possibilities."
The Flyers are coming off their best effort of the season in a 5-2 win over the New York Islanders on Saturday and will look to keep building on it after a troublesome start to the year. The Flyers are 27th in the league on the power play and coach Craig Berube placed an important emphasis on the man-advantage at practice this week.
"If you think about it," Berube told NHL.com, "there are a lot of penalties in the games. Hopefully for the other team. So a lot of times half the game is special teams. You should practice it. It's just as important as anything else. If you don't practice it it's hard to be good at it or focus on it. That's why we practice it all the time."
The Ducks have been led by Corey Perry and Ryan Getzlaf this season as Perry has six goals and seven assists for 13 points and Getzlaf has five tallies and seven helpers for 12 points. Vincent Lecavalier (4-2-6) and Brayden Schenn (2-4-6) have each led the offensively inept Flyers with six points so far on the campaign.
In net, Jonas Hiller has led the way for Anaheim and has posted a 4-2-0 record with a 2.64 goals-against average along with a .911 save percentage while the Flyers main backstop has been Steve Mason, who is 3-5-0 with a 2.15 GAA and a .930 save percentage.
The Ducks hope to continue a solid start to the year as their lengthy road trip marches on while the Flyers will hope that the effort they put up on Saturday will carry over when these two teams hit the ice at Wells Fargo Center tonight.
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