UPDATE 11:15 AM EDT
Veteran Adam Hall will get the nod over rookie Scott Laughton as the Flyers fourth-line center tonight, according to team website writer Anthony SanFilippo. Lines updates below.
UPDATE 10:30 AM EDT
In a mild surprise, Steve Mason will get the opening-night start in goal for the Flyers.
GAME PREVIEW 9:00 AM EDT
Coming off a poor preseason and a highly disappointing campaign last season, the Philadelphia Flyers (0-0-0) are under pressure to get the 2013-14 season off to a good start. The team will have the opportunity to start things on a positive note tonight when the Flyers play host to the Toronto Maple Leafs (1-0-0) at the Wells Fargo Center.
Game time tonight is 7:30 p.m. eastern. The game will be televised locally on CSN Philadelphia and nationally across Canada on TSN.
This is the first of three meetings between the teams this season. Following tonight's game, the clubs will not see each other again until after the Olympic break. The next meeting will take place on March 8 in Toronto.
The Maple Leafs, a playoff team last season, won their regular season opener last night in Montreal. In a seesaw 4-3 affair, James van Riemsdyk (power play), Dion Phaneuf, Tyler Bozak (shorthanded) and Mason Raymond tallied goals for Toronto. James Reimer got the start and victory in net. New goaltending addition Jonathan Bernier will make his regular season debut tonight in Philadelphia.
The Flyers struggled through a 1-5-1 preseason that saw the club plagued by many of the same team defense issues that doomed the club to missing the playoffs last season despite having the NHL's combined top-ranked special teams. Tonight's game marks the regular season Flyers debuts of Vincent Lecavalier and Mark Street.
PROJECTED LINEUPS (Subject to change)
FLYERS
19 Scott Hartnell - 28 Claude Giroux - 93 Jakub Voracek
10 Brayden Schenn - 40 Vincent Lecavalier - 17 Wayne Simmonds
25 Max Talbot - 14 Sean Couturier - 24 Matt Read
37 Jay Rosehill - 18 Adam Hall - 36 Zac Rinaldo
44 Kimmo Timonen - 5 Braydon Coburn
32 Mark Streit - 22 Luke Schenn
8 Nicklas Grossmann - 41 Andrej Meszaros
35 Steve Mason
[29 Ray Emery]
Scratches: Scott Laughton (healthy), Erik Gustafsson (healthy), Hal Gill (healthy).
MAPLE LEAFS
21 James van Riemsdyk - 42 Tyler Bozak - 81 Phil Kessel
19 Joffrey Lupul - 43 Nazem Kadri - 41 Nikolai Kulemin
12 Mason Raymond - 36 Dave Bolland - 40 Troy Bodie
37 Carter Ashton - 11 Jay McClement - 38 Colton Orr
36 Carl Gunnarsson - 3 Dion Phaneuf
51 Jake Gardiner - 4 Cody Franson
2 Mark Fraser - 15 Paul Ranger
45 Jonathan Bernier
[34 James Reimer]
Scratches: Frazer McLaren (finger), David Clarkson (NHL suspension), Morgan Rielly (healthy).
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