Match-up - Philadelphia Flyers (12-14-1) New Jersey Devils (12-9-5)
Road/Home records - 4-10-0 -------------- 8-3-2
TV - NBCSN, TSN2
Puck drop - 7:30 PM ET
Season series - Devils lead 2-0
Last 10: Flyers 5-5-0 / Devils 3-6-1
Projected starting goalies - Ilya Bryzgalov (PHI) vs Johan Hedberg (NJ)
Battle of the stats
Goals for/against per game
Philadelphia - 2.78 / 3.00
New Jersey - 2.42 / 2.77
Power play/Penalty Kill percentage
Philadelphia - 23.2% / 83.3%
New Jersey - 16.5% / 78.6%
Here are the projected lines (subject to change) for the Flyers:
Lines courtesy of DailyFaceoff.com.
Scott Hartnell - Claude Giroux - Jakub Voracek
Matt Read - Brayden Schenn - Wayne Simmonds
Danny Briere - Sean Couturier - Simon Gagne
Ruslan Fedotenko - Max Talbot - Zac Rinaldo
Kimmo Timonen - Luke Schenn
Nicklas Grossman - Braydon Coburn
Bruno Gervais - Andrej Meszaros
Here are the projected lines (subject to change) for the Devils:
Alexei Ponikarovsky - Andrei Loktionv - Ilya Kovalchuk
Patrik Elias - Adam Henrique - Steve Bernier
Ryan Carter - Travis Zajac - David Clarkson
Krys Barch - Stephen Gionta - Tom Kostopoulos
Bryce Salvador - Marek Zidlicky
Andy Greene - Adam Larsson
Peter Harrold - Anton Volchenkov
Notes: Johan Hedberg will start...Mark Fayne, Harri Pesonen and Stefan Matteau will sit as healthy scratches...Henrik Tallinder was placed on IR yesterday and will not play...The Devils are 7-1-2 this season when playing divisional opponents.
Flyers to watch out for:
Simon Gagne - This is Gagne's first game against the Devils since becoming a Flyer again. He always seems to bring his A game against New Jersey and you can bet today will be no different.
Claude Giroux - After a slow start to the season Giroux has picked it up of late recording 15 points in his last 11 contests.
Daniel Briere - He has had a down season by his standards as he has just 13 points in 23 games this season. Briere is going through a bit of a slump right now as he hasn't recorded a point in four games.
Devils to watch out for:
Ilya Kovalchuk - Kovy is on a four game point streak and has five points (2G, 3A) in that span.
Ryan Carter - Carter has five points in six games since returning from what was believed to be a minor concussion.
David Clarkson - He hasn't scored a goal in 12 games - in other words since he played the Flyers last. Perhaps a game against the Flyers will get him going again.
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