Flyers vs. Wild: Lineups, preview, stats, TV info and discussion thread

2013-14 NHL Season :: Game 36 of 82
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20-13-5, 45 points 4th in Central		16-16-4, 36 points 4th in Metropolitan
Monday, December 23rd, 2013 :: 7:30 p.m. ET
Wells Fargo Center :: South Philadelphia
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Starting Goaltenders

	GP	MIN	W	L	GA	GAA	SA	SV	SV%	SO
Philadelphia – Steve Mason	21	1220	10	9	46	2.26	648	602	.929	1
Minnesota – Niklas Backstrom	14	714	2	7	38	3.19	363	325	.895	0

Projected Lineups
Parise – Koivu – Coyle	1st Line	Raffl – Giroux – Voracek
Niederreiter – Granlund – Pominville	2nd Line	Hartnell – Schenn – 40/17
Cooke- Brodziak – Heatley	3rd Line	Read – Couturier – 17/40
Veilleux – Konopka – Rupp	4th Line	Rinaldo – Hall – VandeVelde

Suter – Brodin	1st D Pair	Timonen – Coburn
Scandella – Spurgeon	2nd D Pair	Grossmann – Streit
Ballard – Prosser	3rd D Pair	Schenn – Meszaros
Team Stats
2.16 (29th)	GF/G	2.44 (22nd)
2.32 (8th)	GA/G	2.78 (17th)
19.1% (11th)	PP%	16.7% (18th)
78.0% (26th)	PK%	82.9% (14th)
52.1% (7th)	Faceoff %	48.8% (22nd)
50.7% (14th)	Fenwick %*	48.5% (23rd)
6.3% (26th)	Shot %*	8.0% (10th)
93.3% (9th)	Save %*	93.8% (7th)
99.6 (19th)	PDO*	101.9 (7th)
*stats counted at 5v5 while score is close (why?)
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