Coming off of a crazy 4-3 shootout win against the Buffalo Sabres, the Philadelphia Flyers and Steve Mason are back at it tonight against the 1-5 Arizona Coyotes tonight at the Wells Fargo Center. After losing to the ‘Yotes on October 15th 4-3 in overtime, the Flyers are looking to get another win and to get all the momentum going into Saturdays tilt against the Pittsburgh Penguins. It is likely that the Flyers are going to play with some fire tonight. With all intents and purposes, the referees had a very poor game officiating the last time the Arizona and Philadelphia played. Arizona had a goal that should not have counted, but was said to be a good goal after a coaches challenge. The Flyers had goal that should have counted, but was overturned by refs. In the overtime period, Jacub Voracek had his stick held by Martin Hanzal which should have been a penalty. Instead, the refs missed the call, the Flyers received a hooking penalty, and stud Coyote defenseman Oliver Ekman-Larsson snapped a shot home with two minutes left in the OT period on the delayed penalty. All of this resulted in a Flyer loss and 22 minutes of penalties for Jake Voracek.

With all of the crazy things that happened during the game on the 15th and since then, the Flyers have a very good chance to get a win tonight. With suspended forward Dale Weise coming back from a three game suspension, talented 22 year old winger Taylor Leier was sent down to the Phantoms. There were other moves in Flyers land as well. Travis Konecny and Jacub Voracek will be moved up to the first line, while Matt Read and Wayne Simmons will be sent to the second line. The defensive lines remained the same, and Steve Mason was named the starting goalie. There is also a family connection in the game. Flyer winger Brayden Shenn will be playing against his brother and ex-Flyer defenseman Luke Shenn. Brayden and Luke did not play against each other during the first meeting as he was suspended from a hit against the Capitals during the playoffs.

Lines for the Flyers:

Konecny-Giroux-Voracek

Read-Couturier-Simmonds

Shenn-Cousins-Weise

VandeVelde-Bellemare-Lyubimov

MacDonald-Gostisbehere

Provorov-Manning

Gudas-Streit

Mason

Lines for the Coyotes:

Domi-Hanzal-Vribata

McGinn-Martonook-Duclair

Rieder-Richardson-Doan

Dauphin-Dvorak-White

Ekman Larsson-Murphy

Goligolski-Stone

Chychrun-Shenn

Domingue

Tonights game starts at 7:00. Lets go Flyers!