Tonight: Flyers at Jets

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MTS Centre, 6 p.m.

 TV: TSN

Jets Radio: TSN 1290

 

About the Jets

Have reeled off three straight wins, including two at home, in arguably their most critical stretch of the season… This is the third of an eight-game homestand that includes games against Tampa, St. Louis, Edmonton, Florida and Buffalo… The Jets play nine of their next 11 at MTS Centre… Blake Wheeler has eight points (1G, 7A) in his last four games… Bryan Little has four goals in his last two games… Winnipeg has won its three previous meetings with the Flyers: 9-8 on Oct. 27; 6-4 on Nov. 19 and 2-1 on Jan. 31… Goaltender Ondrej Pavelec reached a career high in wins with his 22nd against the Avalanche on Sunday.

 

About the Flyers

Have traded for two defencemen, Nicklas Grossman and Pavel Kubina, in an attempt to offset the loss of Chris Pronger, gone for the season with a concussion… Are just 3-5-2 in their last 10 after falling 6-4 to Pittsburgh on the weekend… Philly’s 18-9-2 road record is third best in the NHL, behind only Vancouver and the Rangers… Claude Giroux trails Evgeni Malkin by only three points for the NHL scoring lead and is attempting to become the first Flyer to win the Art Ross Trophy as the top point man… The Flyers are 12-12-4 since mid-December and 1-7-1 against NHL powers Boston, Detroit, Pittsburgh and the Rangers.

 

WINNIPEG JETS

31 Ondrej Pavelec

50 Chris Mason

4 Zach Bogosian

5 Mark Stuart

6 Ron Hainsey

8 Alex Burmistrov

9 Evander Kane

12 Randy Jones

13 Kyle Wellwood

14 Tim Stapleton

15 Tanner Glass

16 Andrew Ladd

17 Eric Fehr

18 Bryan Little

19 Jim Slater

20 Antti Miettinen

22 Chris Thorburn

26 Blake Wheeler

29 Johnny Oduya

33 Dustin Byfuglien

36 Mark Flood

39 Tobias Enstrom

80 Nik Antropov

 

PHILADELPHIA FLYERS

30 Ilya Bryzgalov

35 Sergei Bobrovsky

2 Nicklas Grossman

5 Braydon Coburn

6 Andreas Lilja

10 Brayden Schenn

13 Pavel Kubina

14 Sean Couturier

17 Wayne Simmonds

19 Scott Hartnell

21 James van Riemsdyk

24 Matt Read

25 Matt Carle

27 Maxime Talbot

28 Claude Giroux

36 Zac Rinaldo

41 Andrej Meszaros

44 Kimmo Timonen

45 Jody Shelley

47 Eric Wellwood

48 Danny Briere

68 Jaromir Jagr

93 Jakub Voracek

(Lineups subject to change)

 

–Ed Tait