Tonight at 7:00 p.m. ET, the New York Rangers and Philadelphia Flyers faceoff for Game 4 of their Round 1 best-of-seven Stanley Cup Playoffs series live from the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia. The game can be live streamed for free here. New York fans can hear all of the action on 98.7 WEPN while Philadelphia fans can do the same on 97.5 The Fanatic.
New York looks to take a commanding 3-1 series lead back home for Game 5 on Sunday while Philadelphia tries to win its second game of the series and first at home to draw even. The Rangers won Game 1 at Madison Square Garden and Game 3 at Wells Fargo Center each by a score of 4-1 while the Flyers took Game 2 by a 4-2 score and notched their first win at MSG since 2011.
The Rangers know that they need their role players to get involved if they're going to win the series, and agitator and former Flyer Daniel Carcillo was a huge part of their Game 3 win after being a healthy scratch the first two games of the series.
Carcillo got into some penalty trouble but was physical and scored a put-away goal in Game 3 Tuesday.
"I know my role," Carcillo told NHL.com. "I said it when I got here. No matter where I am in the lineup, to be an energy guy, a role guy, be physical, wear the other team down. I just have to be smarter going forward with the stuff after the whistle. We addressed that [Thursday]."
The Flyers will get Steve Mason back in the lineup after he missed the first two games of the series due to a likely head injury but dressed as a backup to Ray Emery in Game 3, eventually playing the final seven minutes of the game. Mason said he feels healthy enough for Game 4.
"For a goaltender I think it's a matter of if you're tracking the puck well off the stick and into your body," Mason said Thursday via NHL.com. "Toward the end of practice I felt really sharp, especially on the power-play stuff there. I was moving well, seeing the puck through screens. If that's the gauge for myself, I feel pretty good."
Mason had just three shots on him in the final seven minutes of Game 3 and went 33-18-7 in the regular-season with a 2.50 GAA and a .917 save percentage. He'll be opposed by Henrik Lundqvist, who is 2-1 in the series while allowing five goals on 71 shots through three games.
New York was hoping that its veterans would lead the way and thus far they have as Martin St. Louis leads the team with five points off of two goals and three assists in the series while Brad Richards has a tally and three helpers to rank tied for second on the team four points and Rick Nash also has four points all off of assists while he searches for his first goal.
Philadelphia will hope to solve Lundqvist as only five members of the Orange and Black have beaten him this series. Jakub Voracek (one goal and one assist) leads the team with two points along with Scott Hartnell and Claude Giroux, who each have two assists.
The Stanley Cup Playoffs continue when the Rangers and Flyers take the ice for Game 4 of their best-of-seven Round 1 series live from the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia.
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