Tonight at 7:00 p.m. ET, the Ottawa Senators (8-8-4, 20 points) and Philadelphia Flyers (7-10-2, 16 points) go head-to-head live from the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia in the second of three meetings between these teams this season. The game can be live streamed here. Ottawa fans can hear all of the hard-hitting action by adjusting their radios to TSN 1200 while Philadelphia fans can do the same on 97.5 The Fanatic.
Ottawa enters a week that features two back-to-back sets of games while Philadelphia has won three out of its last four games and scored 13 goals in that span while posting a 3-0-1 record. The first time these two teams met, the Flyers blanked the Senators 5-0 on Nov. 12 in Ottawa.
The Flyers are hoping to rattle off three straight victories starting tonight against the Senators to finally get back to the .500 mark, but they haven't fared too well on home ice thus far this season.
"It would be huge, obviously," Jakub Voracek told CSNPhilly.com. "We're right there. We're like four or five points out of the [Stanley Cup] Playoffs. We've just got to play the same way we played on the road. It would mean a lot if we wound up at .500 at the end of the week. We've got to go game by game and be focused."
Senators head coach Paul MacLean said he wasn't sure who he'd be going with in net as Craig Anderson has allowed 11 goals since returning from a neck injury. Robin Lehner won all three games he played in during Anderson's absence and is 3-2-2 with a 2.13 goals-against average and a .945 save percentage.
For Philadelphia, Steve Mason has started 14 of 20 games and is 5-7-2 with a 2.13 GAA and a .931 save percentage thus far this season.
If Mason gets the nod, he'll go up against an Ottawa team that is led by Bobby Ryan, who has four goals and 11 points in his last nine games for 20 points on 10 goals and 10 assists while Erik Karlsson also has 20 points on seven goals and 13 assists and Jason Spezza (nine goals, nine assists) and Kyle Turris (four goals, 14 assists) each have 18 points.
Philadelphia has been paced by Brayden Schenn (6-6-12), Claude Giroux (1-10-11) and Vincent Lecavalier (7-3-10) so far this season.
The Senators hope to start their busy week out on the right foot while the Flyers will try to transfer their road success over to home ice when the lights come on tonight at Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia.
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