The Detroit Red Wings (40-29-9) are home today to play the Philadelphia Flyers (40-26-12). The Red Wings have 89 points, leaving them three short of a wildcard playoff spot. The Flyers own third place in the Metropolitan Division. <\/p>\n
Where:\u00a0 Little Caesars Arena<\/p>\n
When: 7 p.m.. ET<\/p>\n
TV\/Radio: FanDuel Sports Network\/97.1 FM<\/p>\n
Odds:\u00a0 Philadelphia (+1,5, -250), Detroit (-1.5, +205), DRAFTKINGS<\/p>\n
Hot: DeBrincat has 25 points (9-16-25) in 19 games, dating to Feb. 28 at Carolina. He is the sixth member of the 2016 NHL Draft class to reach the 300-assist mark, joining Matthew Tkachuk (415), Clayton Keller (365), Auston Matthews (352), Adam Fox (348) and Jesper Bratt (345).<\/p>\n
Not:\u00a0 Emmitt Finnie has no goals (two points) in his last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Spotlight: \u00a0Patrick Kane boasts 20 points (6-14-20) in 16 games since March 6. Also, he recently scored his 55th career shootout goal to extend his own record.<\/p>\n
Story: John Gibson is the projected starter. . . The Red Wings, 2-7 in their last nine games, are 17-2-1 this season when leading after one period, and 6-1-1 when it\u2019s on home ice. . .Detroit beat the Flyers 4-2 in Detroit a week ago and lost to the Flyers 5-3 12 days ago in Philadelphia Injuries: Michael Rasmussen and Mason Appleton, are both out.<\/p>\n
Detroit Projected Lines<\/p>\n
Alex DeBrincat \u2014 Andrew Copp \u2014 Patrick Kane<\/p>\n
Emmitt Finnie \u2014 Dylan Larkin \u2014 Lucas Raymond<\/p>\n
David Perron\u2013 JT Compher \u2014 Carter Mazur<\/p>\n
James van Riemsdyk\u2013 Marco Kasper\u2013 Dominik Shine<\/p>\n
Defense Pairings<\/p>\n
Simon Edvinsson \u2014 Moritz Seider<\/p>\n
Ben Chiarot \u2014 Justin Faulk<\/p>\n
Albert Johansson \u2014 Jacob Bernard-Docker<\/p>\n
Goalies<\/p>\n
John Gibson (Cam Talbot backup)<\/p>\n
Sub: Travis Hamonic, Axel Sandin-Pellikka<\/p>\n
Philadelphia Flyers<\/p>\n
Story: The Flyers have won three in a row and six of their last eight. They control their own destiny regarding qualifying for the playoffs. Injuries: Rodrigo Abols (lower body), Nikita Grebenkin (upper body)<\/p>\n
Projected Lines<\/p>\n
Tyson Foerster \u2014 Trevor Zegras \u2014 Owen Tippett<\/p>\n
Travis Konecny \u2014 Christian Dvorak \u2014 Porter Martone<\/p>\n
Alex Bump \u2014 Noah Cates \u2014 Matvei Michkov<\/p>\n
Denver Barkey \u2014 Luke Glendening \u2014 Sean Couturier<\/p>\n
Defense Pairings<\/p>\n
Travis Sanheim \u2014 Rasmus Ristolainen<\/p>\n
Cam York \u2014 Jamie Drysdale<\/p>\n
Nick Seeler \u2014 Emil Andrae<\/p>\n
Goalies<\/p>\n
Dan Vladar (Samuel Ersson backup)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Detroit Red Wings (40-29-9) are home today to play the Philadelphia Flyers (40-26-12). The Red Wings have…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":548954,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5112],"tags":[93,1468,5,4,37137,1467,56,5205],"class_list":{"0":"post-548953","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia-flyers","8":"tag-detroit-red-wings","9":"tag-flyers","10":"tag-hockey","11":"tag-nhl","12":"tag-nhl-preview","13":"tag-philadelphia","14":"tag-philadelphia-flyers","15":"tag-philadelphiaflyers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116376395834254332","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/548954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}