Tonight at 7:00 p.m. ET, the Detroit Red Wings (23-18-11, 57 points) and Philadelphia Flyers (25-22-6, 56 points) hit the ice at the Wells Fargo Center for the third and final meeting against each other this season. The game can be live streamed here. Detroit fans can hear all of the action by adjusting their radios to 97.1 The Ticket while Philadelphia fans can do the same on 97.5 The Fanatic.
Detroit enters play banged up but has managed to win two of its last three games while Philadelphia has lost four straight games and will look to bounce back. These two teams have alternated wins in their first two meetings, with the Red Wings beating the Flyers 5-2 on Oct. 12 in Detroit and the Flyers gaining revenge with a 6-3 win in Detroit on Dec. 4.
The Red Wings will once again be without their top two scorers as Henrik Zetterberg (16-18-44) is sidelined with a back injury and Pavel Datsyuk (15-17-32) is out with a lower-body injury. Daniel Alfredsson is tied with Datsyuk for second on the team with 32 points off of 12 goals and 20 assists.
The Flyers will look to have a good start to the game after allowing the first goal in eight of their last nine games.
"The key to getting out of this is to have a good start the next game," forward Wayne Simmonds said via CSNPhilly.com. "We haven't been playing well as of late in all aspects of the game, offensively and especially defensively."
Simmonds is second on the team with 38 points off of 17 goals and 21 assists while Claude Giroux paces the team with 47 points off of 15 tallies and 32 helpers and Jakub Voracek has lit the lamp 14 times and added 23 helpers for 37 points. Giroux has four goals and six assists for 10 points in his last 12 games.
Philadelphia is likely to turn to Steve Mason between the pipes, who is 19-13-5 with a 2.64 goals-against average and a .913 save percentage while Jimmy Howard may return for Detroit and could start for the team. Howard is 9-12-8 with a 2.64 GAA and a .916 save percentage.
The Red Wings look to succeed in spite of their injuries while the Flyers will hope to snap a four-game losing streak when the lights come up at the Wells Fargo Center tonight in Philadelphia.
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