PREVIEW 8:30 AM EDT
Looking for their fifth straight win, the Philadelphia Flyers (17-17-3) will be in action today for the third time in four days when they visit the Winnipeg Jets (18-19-2) in an afternoon showdown. The game starts at 3 p.m. and will be televised locally on CSN Philadelphia and across Canada on the CBC,
This is the third and final meeting between the teams this season and the second in Winnipeg. On Feb. 12, a tired-legged Flyers team gritted out a 3-2 road win in Winnipeg behind stellar goaltending by Ilya Bryzgalov and goals by Brayden Schenn, Kimmo Timonen and Tye McGinn. Eleven days later, the Flyers scored three times on the power play to battle back from deficits of 1-0 and 3-1 to grab a 5-3 win on home ice. Brayden Schenn tallied a pair of goals, and Claude Giroux, Wayne Simmonds, and Zac Rinaldo (empty net goal) scored once apiece.
The Flyers have managed their four-game winning streak despite a wave of injuries that have depleted the lineup. The team has lost defensemen Braydon Coburn (separated left shoulder) and Andrej Meszaros (torn left rotator cuff) for the season, and has been without Nicklas Grossmann (upper body injury) for the last two weeks. Up front, they are missing Danny Briere (concussion, out indefinitely), Max Talbot (broken left leg, out for the season) and Zac Rinaldo (high ankle sprain, will miss about two weeks).
On Thursday, the Flyers grabbed a 5-3 win in Toronto. Simon Gagne, Jakub Voracek, Brayden Schenn, Jay Rosehill and Luke Schenn (ENG) scored for the Flyers. In the third period, the team lost Timonen to a lower-body injury.
Timonen will be a game-time decision today, but is likely to play even if he's at much less than 100 percent. Grossmann did not accompany the team to Toronto and Winnipeg.
The Jets have struggled of late, losing five game in a row and seven of their last 10. As a result, the team has fallen out of first place in the Southeast Division and is now 10th in the Eastern Conference. Goal scoring has been a problem of late, as the club has lit the lamp just six times over the course of the current five-game losing skid.
On the Winnipeg injury front, the Jets' lineup is missing forwards Jim Slater (upper body), James Wright (upper body), Anthony Peluso (hand) and Nikolai Antropov (lower body), plus defenseman Zach Redmond (leg).
PROJECTED LINEUPS
FLYERS
24 Matt Read - 28 Claude Giroux - 93 Jakub Voracek
19 Scott Hartnell - 10 Brayden Schenn - 17 Wayne Simmonds
37 Jay Rosehill - 14 Sean Couturier - 18 Adam Hall
12 Simon Gagne - 26 Ruslan Fedotenko - 9 Mike Knuble
44 Kimmo Timonen - 27 Bruno Gervais
38 Oliver Lauridsen - 22 Luke Schenn
23 Kent Huskins - 29 Erik Gustafsson
30 Ilya Bryzgalov / 35 Steve Mason
JETS
16 Andrew Ladd - 18 Bryan Little - 26 Blake Wheeler
9 Evander Kane - 15 Mike Santorelli - 8 Alex Burmistrov
27 Eric Tangradi - 12 Olli Jokinen - 13 Kyle Wellwood
20 Antti Miettinen - 21 Aaron Gagnon - 22 Chris Thorburn
39 Tobias Enström - 33 Dustin Byfuglien
6 Ron Hainsey - 44 Zach Bogosian
4 Paul Postma - 24 Grant Clitsome
31 Ondrej Pavelec
[35 Al Montoya]
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