Two struggling teams hookup tonight in Philly, as the Sens and Flyers both could use a win. The Flyers have a new coach in Peter Laviolette and it's unclear how the team will respond, especially without former Sen Ray Emery, who had surgery and will be out 6 weeks.No changes for the Sens tonight, but they have made minor changes to the line combos. Jason Spezza will be back between Alfie and Michalek, afte a failed experiment of moving him to play with AK27. Mike Fisher will be back playing with Foligno and Kovalev, hoping to continue the clear chemistry they appear to have. It was believed that Alexandre Picard would be playing tonight, but now it has been revealed he will be a game time decision.
Brian Elliott will start in goal for the Senators and Brian Boucher for the Flyers. The game is on TSN2 at 7pm
Predicition: The only thing that's predictable about the Sens this year is that they are unpredictable. I have no clue what to expect tonight, but with Boucher and Elliott in net, it should be high scoring, which means it probably won't. Both teams need the win badly and the Sens are awful on the road. Flyers win 4-2
Thoughts?
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Great game by Elliot, the Sens played well defensively, but went 0fer on the PP again and managed to take a penalty in the last couple of minutes.
I think the Sens problem on the PP is that they do not win any battles, and obviously they don't have any good pointmen (Karlsson definitely not showing anything there).
I also think that the Sens have a bit of a problem with team speed. They seem to have trouble getting to pucks or getting separation, less a few guys.
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