GAME DAY | Canadiens – Flyers: Preview, Lines, Goalies, TV, Fantasy

Jordan Lambe

February 2, 2016


Pre-game Notes and Quotes
Steve Mason on his most recent injury and team scope: “I don’t think it’s anything too serious, we’re in a stretch where we have a little bit of time to take some rest. That’s what we’re doing. Hopefully come the end of the break here we’ll be ready to go.” Both Sven Andrighetto and Lucas Lessio were recalled from St. John’s on Sunday and practiced with the Canadiens on Monday. While the Canadiens have a 20-11-3 record versus teams in the Eastern Conference this season, the Flyers have a 14-10-5 record against teams from the East. So far this season, the Canadiens have a 9-7-2 record versus teams in the Metropolitan division, while the Flyers have a 6-5-2 record versus teams coming from the Atlantic Division. The Canadiens have dropped in their placing for the goals against category, they are currently in 20th in the league in goals against, with 134 in 50 games. The Flyers have allowed 127 goals in 47 games and find themselves in 12th in the league. The Canadiens have maintained their place in the standings in the goals for category as they are currently in 9th place in the NHL, with 136 over their first 50 games. The Flyers are 29th in this category with 109 goals scored in 47 games.

Matchup
Wells Fargo Center, Philadelphia, PA. \| February 2, 7:30 PM ET \| TV: CSN-PH
	2015-16 statistics
FLYERS	2015-16 statistics	CANADIENS
41 (16th)	Points (Eastern Conf. rank)	52 (10th)
21-18-8	Record	24-22-4
11-7-5	Home	12-10-2
10-11-3	Road	12-12-2
6-3-1	Last 10	2-7-1
2.32	G/G	2.72
2.70	GA/G	2.68
17.5	PP%	17.4
78.0	PK%	84.3
49.0	CF%*	53.4
52.5	CF60*	56.5
54.6	CA60*	49.3

*Advanced statistics: Score adjusted, even strength. CF%: Corsi for percentage of total CF60: Corsi For/60 minutes CA60: Corsi Against/60 minutes (via War on Ice)
Projected forward lines, defense pairings and goaltenders
Forwards
Voracek – Giroux – Simmonds Raffl – Gagner – Schenn Read – Laughton – Weal VandeVelde – Bellemare – White	Pacioretty – Desharnais – Weise Galchenyuk – Plekanec – Gallagher Fleischmann – Eller – Smith-Pelly Lessio – Mitchell – Flynn Expected scratches: Andrighetto
Defensemen
Del Zotto – Gudas Schultz – Streit Gostisbehere – Manning	Markov – Subban Beaulieu – Petry Gilbert – Barberio Expected scratches: Pateryn, Emelin
Goalies
Steve Mason (Confirmed)	Mike Condon (Confirmed)

2015-’16 regular season: Record: 10-12-0 GAA: 2.72 Sv%: .914 SO: 3 Alternate: Anthony Stolarz	2015-’16 regular season: Record: 13-13-4 GAA: 2.44 Sv%: .904 SO: 0 Alternate: Ben Scrivens

Fantasy Outlook

* – Currently injured

Player stats from War-on-Ice, NHL.com and Yahoo Sports.

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