Game day: Jets at Flyers

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ABOUT THE FLYERS

-The Flyers are 1-0-1 midway through a four-game home stand at Wells Fargo Center. Philadelphia (7-7-3) beat the Minnesota Wild 3-2 Saturday night and then followed with a 3-2 shootout loss to the Ottawa Senators on Tuesday. After tonight’s battle with the Jets, Philadelphia hosts Tampa Bay on Saturday afternoon before heading out for a two-game Florida swing next week.

-G Steve Mason stopped 28 shots and blocked another four in the shootout before giving up Erik Karlsson’s shootout winner in a 3-2 home defeat Tuesday night. Said Flyers coach Dave Hakstol afterwards: “Overall, I think it was probably Mase’s best 65 minutes of the year.” Mason has struggled this season, posting a goals-against average of 3.24 and .884 save percentage, while winning just three times in nine starts.

-F Jakub Voracek leads the Flyers with 17 points in 17 games, including seven goals. F Claude Giroux is next with 16 points and F Wayne Simmonds follows with 15, including a team-leading eight goals.

-G Michal Neuvirth is sidelined with a sprained knee and could miss four to six weeks of action. The club has called up Anthony Stolarz from the Lehigh Valley Phantoms of the American Hockey League. This is his ninth recall in three pro seasons, but the 22-year-old from Edison, N.J., has yet to see action in a regular-season game.

-The Flyers are deadly when they have the man advantage. Philadelphia has scored a league-leading 17 power-play goals and has made good on 27.4 per cent of its chances, second only to Columbus (30.8). But the Flyers are 25th in the league with a 78.8-per-cent efficiency rating while short-handed.

PHILADELPHIA FLYERS

35 Steve Mason G
41 Anthony Stolarz G
3 Radko Gudas D
9 Ivan Provorov D
10 Brayden Schenn C
11 Travis Konecny C
12 Michael Raffl LW
13 Roman Lyubimov RW
14 Sean Couturier LW
15 Michael Del Zotto D
17 Wayne Simmonds RW (A)
21 Scott Laughton C
22 Dale Weise RW
23 Brandon Manning D
24 Matt Read RW
25 Nick Cousins C
27 Boyd Gordon C
28 Claude Giroux C (C)
32 Mark Streit D (A)
47 Andrew MacDonald D
53 Shane Gostisbehere D
55 Nick Schultz D
76 Chris VandeVelde C
78 Pierre-Edouard Bellemar LW
93 Jakub Voracek RW
Head coach: Dave Hakstol
Assistant coaches: Gord Murphy, Joe Mullen, Ian Laperriere
Goaltending coach: Kim Dillabaugh

WINNIPEG JETS

34 Michael Hutchinson
37 Connor Hellebuyck
4 Paul Postma D
5 Mark Stuart D
7 Ben Chiarot D
8 Jacob Trouba D
9 Andrew Copp C
12 Drew Stafford RW
13 Brandon Tanev LW
17 Adam Lowry C
18 Bryan Little C
19 Nic Petan LW
21 Quinton Howden LW
22 Chris Thorburn RW
26 Blake Wheeler RW (C)
27 Nikolaj Ehlers LW
29 Patrik Laine RW
33 Dustin Byfuglien D (A)
39 Toby Enstrom D
44 Josh Morrissey D
55 Mark Scheifele C (A)
56 Marko Dano RW
57 Tyler Myers D
77 Chase De Leo C
85 Mathieu Perreault C
91 Alex Burmistrov C
Head coach: Paul Maurice
Assistant coaches: Jamie Kompon, Charlie Huddy, Todd Woodcroft
Goaltending coach: Wade Flaherty

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