Where: Joe Louis Arena – Detroit, Michigan
When: 5:00PM EST
TV: FS-D, TCN-PH
Radio: WXYT
Flyers Blog: Broad St Hockey
The Detroit Red Wings look to bounce back tonight against the Philadelphia Flyers after a very, very, very disappointing Friday night match-up against the Columbus Blue Jackets. Philly pushed their 7-game winning streak against the Dallas Stars last night and managed to extend the streak to 8 games with some last-minute heroics, but that won’t mean tonight’s game is already in the bag with the visiting team coming into town tired and emotionally drained. The Flyers hold a 17-10-3 record, good for 37 points – 8 more than our boys in red currently hold at their 13-12-3 mark. They play a particularly physical brand of hockey, with blue-line tough guy Radko Gudas willing to hit anything that moves (he’s 4th in the NHL right now with 87 hits on the season) and scoring winger Wayne Simmonds who is just as good at rearranging your face as he is at creating goals. 3 Flyers have over 25 points on the season – Jakub Voracek (32), Claude Giroux (29), and the aforementioned Simmonds (27). Henrik Zetterberg currently leads our team with a mere 20 points. It will be all hands on-deck for the Wings defense if they hope to contain the Philly offense and help our team get back to its winning ways.
Red Wings Projected Line-Up
| Tomas Tatar | Henrik Zetterberg | Anthony Mantha |
| Dylan Larkin | Frans Nielsen | Luke Glendening |
| Gustav Nyquist | Riley Sheahan | Thomas Vanek |
| Andreas Athanasiou | Steve Ott | Tomas Jurco |
| Danny DeKeyser | Mike Green |
| Niklas Kronwall | Xavier Ouellet |
| Brian Lashoff | Alexei Marchenko |
| Petr Mrazek (starting) |
| Jimmy Howard |
Flyers Projected Line-Up
| Michael Raffl | Claude Giroux | Jakub Voracek |
| Travis Konecny | Brayden Schenn | Wayne Simmonds |
| Taylor Leier | Nick Cousins | Dale Weise |
| Chris VandeVelde | Pierre-Edouard Bellemare | Roman Lyubimov |
| Ivan Provorov | Andrew MacDonald |
| Mark Streit | Radko Gudas |
| Brandon Manning | Shayne Gostisbehere |
| Anthony Stolarz (starting) |
| Steve Mason |
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Game Day Prediction Contest
Would you like to predict the outcome of the game and potentially become internet famous? Well you’re in luck, because here’s your opportunity. Here’s how it works.
Make your game predictions on the winning team, final score, and who the Wings player of the game will be. Enter the required information into the form below using the formats indicated in the questions. If you don’t use those formats, your answers will be disregarded. All submissions are timestamped and will be accepted only until the official game start time. All other submissions after that will be disregarded. Only one submission per person, please. POTG will be determined by the collective of WiiM writers.
Each correct winning team prediction is worth 1 point. Each correct player of the game prediction is worth 2 points. Each correct final score prediction is worth 5 points. If you get all three correct you’ll receive 15 points.
