Tonight at 8:00 p.m. ET, the Philadelphia Flyers (12-13-2, 26 points) and Detroit Red Wings (14-7-7, 35 points) go head-to-head live from the Joe Louis Arena in Detroit for the second of three meetings this season. The game can be live streamed here. Philadelphia fans can hear all of the bone-crunching action on 97.5 The Fanatic while Detroit fans can do the same on 97.1 The Ticket.
Philadelphia enters play trying to get back into form but it won't be easy as the team has won just one of its last 19 games at Joe Louis Arena while Detroit enters play having lost its entire top line due to injury.
For the Red Wings, top two scorers Henrik Zetterberg (11-19-30, back) and Pavel Datsyuk (12-11-23, concussion) are both sidelined along with linemate Todd Bertuzzi (5-4-9, shoulder), meaning their entire top line will watch the game from the press box. With Zetterberg and Datsyuk sidelined, Daniel Alfredsson (7-14-21) and Niklas Kronwall (3-18-21) are the team's top scorers.
Zetterberg is sidelined for at least two weeks after learning he had a herniated disc in his back.
"We just have to see how I respond to the treatment," Zetterberg said per NHL.com. "We've got to give it a couple weeks just to let it settle down and we'll go from there. I've been through this before so maybe I'm a little bit calmer now than when it happened last time."
After a troublesome start to the season, the Flyers went 8-2-1 before falling to the Minnesota Wild 2-0 Monday night.
"Same story as the start of the year," Claude Giroux said after Monday's game via NHL.com. "We just need to get more pucks to the net and maybe more traffic and the puck will start going in."
Giroux leads the team with 18 points off of four goals and 14 assists while Brayden Schenn has seven tallies and eight helpers for 15 points and Steve Downie has lit the lamp once and added 13 assists for 14 points on the season. Vincent Lecavalier (9-5-14) is sidelined with back spasms for the second straight game tonight.
In net, Jimmy Howard is 6-7-6 with a 2.57 goals-against average and a .913 save percentage for the Red Wings while Steve Mason is 9-8-2 for the Flyers with a 2.09 GAA while ranking sixth in the NHL with a .934 save percentage.
The Flyers will look to find their offense again while the Red Wings hope to overcome injuries to their top players when these two teams hit the ice tonight at Joe Louis Arena in Detroit.
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