Philadelphia Flyers (33-12-5, 71 pts) at Tampa Bay Lightning (31-15-5, 67 pts)
7:30 p.m. tonight at St. Pete Times Forum in St. Petersburg, Florida
Catch the action on CSN Philly in HD, Sun Sports in HD, and 610 WIP
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Tonight’s goaltenders:
After the jump, lineups, questions to answer and in-game chat.
Flyers Projected Lineup
van Riemsdyk – Richards – Nodl
Hartnell – Briere – Leino
Zherdev – Giroux – Carter
Carcillo – Betts – Powe
Pronger – Carle
Coburn – Timonen
Meszaros – O’Donnell
Scratches: Oskars Bartulis (flu), Jody Shelley (flu)
Lightning Projected Lineup
Gagne – Stamkos – Downie
Malone – LeCavalier – St. Louis
Bergenheim – Moore – Purcell
Hall – Thompson – Tyrell
Clark – Hedman
Ohlund – Lundin
Jones – Kubina
Scratches: Mattias Ritola (healthy), Matt Smaby (healthy), Mike Smith (healthy), Ryan Malone (injured)
Questions to Answer
- Steven Stamkos scores about 99.9 percent of his goals by sneaking down around the bottom of the circle and blasting a one-timer into the net. He ate Braydon Coburn alive with this last time these teams met. Can the Flyers stop that?
- Gagne has been much better lately for the Lightning. How’s he do tonight?
- The Lightning are terrible in transition and in the neutral zone. Can the Flyers exploit that weakness?
- The power play actually scored some goals in the last game before the break. That ends the several-month-long funk, right? (Probably not.)
7:30 start. Go Flyers.
