Tonight at 7:30 p.m. ET, the Philadelphia Flyers (5-10-1, 11 points) and the Ottawa Senators (7-6-4, 18 points) go head-to-head live from the Canadian Tire Center in Ottawa in the first of three meetings against each other this season. The game can be live streamed here. Philadelphia fans can hear all of the bone-crunching action by adjusting their radios to 97.5 The Fanatic while Ottawa fans can do the same on TEAM 1200.
Philadelphia enters play in hopes that its recent win is the starting point of turning around a terrible start to the season while Ottawa will hope that their returning goaltender can help boost them to a victory.
The Senators will be getting Craig Anderson back between the pipes after he missed the last three games due to a neck injury.
"Craig Anderson is the No. 1 goalie and he's ready to play," Senators coach Paul MacLean said via NHL.com. "He's playing. Robin [Lehner] has done a good job, but Craig is the No. 1 goalie."
Anderson is 4-4-2 this season with a 3.14 goals-against average and a .912 save percentage while Lehner went 3-0-0 with a 1.33 GAA and a .958 save percentage last week in Anderson's absence.
Between the pipes the Flyers have gone with Steve Mason in 12 of their 17 games, and he has posted a 4-7-1 record with a 2.34 GAA and a .925 save percentage.
The Flyers are coming off of a 4-2 victory over the Edmonton Oilers that saw captain Claude Giroux finally net his first goal of the season. Philadelphia is hopeful that recently acquired forward Steve Downie will return to the lineup after missing four games with a concussion.
"You definitely don't have legs the first couple days," Downie told NHL.com about his recovery. "But I've been skating for three days so they're coming. It's a slow process but it's definitely coming."
The Flyers have been led by Vincent Lecavalier (six goals, two assists), Brayden Schenn (three goals, five assists) and Giroux (one goal, seven assists), who each have eight points.
The Senators, meanwhile, have been paced by Bobby Ryan, who has 19 points after lighting the lamp nine times and adding 10 assists while Erik Karlsson(six goals, 12 assists) and Kyle Turris (four goals, 14 assists) each have 18 points.
Philadelphia will hope that Giroux's first tally will get him going enough to lift the offense while Ottawa looks for Anderson to provide them a boost in the crease when these teams faceoff tonight at Canadian Tire Center.
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