Tonight at 7:30 p.m. ET, the Philadelphia Flyers (13-14-2, 28 points) and Ottawa Senators (11-14-5. 27 points) faceoff for the third and final time this season live from the Canadian Tire Center in Ottawa. The game can be live streamed here. Philadelphia fans can hear all of the action by adjusting their radios to 97.5 The Fanatic while Ottawa fans can do the same on TEAM 1200.
Philadelphia and Ottawa both enter play coming off of losses and will look to write the ship tonight. The Flyers have beaten the Senators in the prior two meetings and scored five times in both games, notching a 5-0 win Nov. 12 in Ottawa and following it up with a 5-2 victory in Philadelphia a week later on Nov. 19.
The Flyers will be without forward Vincent Lecavalier (9-5-14) for 3-4 weeks after he suffered a non-displaced fracture in his lower back. He hasn't played since Nov. 30.
"He had an X-ray in Dallas and they found something on the X-ray that didn't look right, so we flew him back to Philadelphia [on Sunday] to get him into our own doctors' hands," general manager Paul Holmgren said, according to NHL.com.
Philadelphia will look to bounce back after losing to the Dallas Stars 5-1 on Saturday.
The Senators fell to 0-4 in the shootout this season with a 4-3 loss to the Toronto Maple Leafs on Saturday. The loss in the tiebreaker may lead to coach Paul MacLean changing up his shootout lineup in future games.
"I could do that, yeah. I'm open to suggestions," MacLean said, according to the Ottawa Sun. "In my experience, the guys that have been there the most are the guys that end up having the most success. That's the reason we go with the people we go with, but, as you say, maybe it might be time."
Ottawa has been led by Erik Karlsson, who has 28 points off of eight goals and 20 assists while Bobby Ryan has 14 tallies and 12 helpers for 26 points and Jason Spezza has found the twine 10 times and added 15 assists for 25 points.
Captain Claude Giroux has paved the way for Philadelphia with 20 points off of five goals and 15 assists while Brayden Schenn (seven goals, nine assists) and Steve Downie (two goals, 14 assists) each have 16 points.
Steve Mason is 10-9-2 for Philadelphia this season with a 2.26 goals-against average and a .929 save percentage while Ottawa netminder Craig Anderson is 7-8-3 with a 3.38 GAA and a .897 save percentage this season.
Both teams look to bounce back from losses when the puck drops on the Flyers and Senators tonight in Ottawa.
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