Flyers vs. Capitals: Lineups, preview, game time, TV info and discussion thread

2013-14 NHL Season :: Game 34 of 82
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18-12-3, 39 points 2nd in Metropolitan		14-15-4, 32 points 5th in Metropolitan
Tuesday, December 17h, 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
Washington – Braden Holtby	25	1360	13	9	64	2.82	798	734	.920	1

Projected Lineups
Johansson – Ovechkin – Backstrom	1st Line	Raffl – Giroux – Voracek
Fehr – Grabovski – Brouwer	2nd Line	Hartnell – Schenn – Simmonds
Chimera – Ward – Erat	3rd Line	Read – – Couturier – Downie
Volpatti – Beagle – Wilson	4th Line	Rinaldo – Hall – VandeVelde

Alzner – Green	1st D Pair	Timonen – Coburn
Orlov – Carlson	2nd D Pair	Grossmann – Streit
Erskine – Oleksy	3rd D Pair	Schenn – Meszaros
Team Stats
2.94 (7th)	GF/G	2.27 (26th)
2.85 (21st)	GA/G	2.67 (14th)
24.4% (2nd)	PP%	17.1% (17th)
83.5% (12th)	PK%	83.3% (13th)
49.1% (19th)	Faceoff %	48.7% (22nd)
46.5% (27th)	Fenwick %*	48.4% (23rd)
7.5% (14th)	Shot %*	7.8% (11th)
91.6% (23rd)	Save %*	94.2% (4th)
99.1 (19th)	PDO*	102.0 (7th)
*stats counted at 5v5 while score is close (why?)
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