The Flyers can make the Stars start to sweat a little bit.
With three games remaining in the regular season, the Stars (41-31-7, 89 points) can clinch a berth in the Stanley Cup Playoffs by earning a point Tuesday night against the Flyers (37-34-8, 82 points).
Let's take a look at tonight's essentials:
• When: 8:30 p.m. ET with Flyers Pregame Live at 8 p.m.
• Where: American Airlines Center
• Broadcast: NBC Sports Philadelphia
• Live stream: NBCSportsPhiladelphia.com and the NBC Sports MyTeams app
• The Flyers are coming off a 3-0 loss at home Sunday to the New York Rangers as they were shut out for the seventh time this season. It was the first time they were blanked since a 3-0 setback to the St. Louis Blues on Jan. 7.
• The Flyers won the only previous meeting this season between the two teams, a 2-1 win on Jan. 10 at the Wells Fargo Center. Rookie Carter Hart made 38 saves in the winning effort.
The Flyers will be seeking their first win in Dallas since October 2014, with an 0-2-1 record over their last three visits, and their first two-game sweep over the Stars since the 2010-11 season.
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Interim head coach Scott Gordon has been an experimenter of lines and expect more of the same against the Stars. Despite the Flyers coming up empty against the Rangers, Gordon was very pleased with the combination of Oskar Lindblom, Nolan Patrick and Travis Konecny.
“After the first period, I put Nolan and T.K. and Oskar together and they played against [Mika] Zibanejad and I thought they were excellent," Gordon said. "I thought they were our best line."
• Defensively, the Flyers have been poor in their own end. They’ve yielded three or more goals in each of their past five games for the first time since Dec. 31-Jan. 8.
• The Stars are the lowest-scoring first-period team by a wide margin as they’ve manufactured just 37 first-period goals this season. The next closest team, the Predators, has 52.
• On the other hand, the Flyers have the largest negative goal differential in the first period of any team in the NHL at minus-25.
• The Stars and Islanders are the only two teams that have allowed fewer than 200 goals this season. Dallas has turned it around primarily on the strength of its goaltending. Ben Bishop is a leading candidate for the Vezina Trophy with a 2.03 GAA and a .933 save percentage.
Bishop is day to day with a lower-body injury, so the Stars will start Anton Khudobin against the Flyers again. Khudobin has been solid as well with a 2.49 GAA and a .925 save percentage in 39 games played.
Stars winger Alexander Radulov is on a three-game goal streak with six points over his last five games.
• In somewhat of a bizarre announcement, the Stars made it known on Monday they have a new team pet as the franchise has adopted a cow. They’re now looking to their fans to find a name. Some of the suggestions include Mike Moodano and Joe Mooendyk. Moodano should be the overwhelming choice.
Projected lineup
Forwards
Claude Giroux-Sean Couturier-Jakub Voracek
Oskar Lindblom-Nolan Patrick-Travis Konecny
James van Riemsdyk-Scott Laughton-Ryan Hartman
Michael Raffl-Corban Knight-Justin Bailey
Defensemen
Ivan Provorov-Shayne Gostisbehere
Travis Sanheim-Philippe Myers
Robert Hagg-Samuel Morin
Goalies
Cam Talbot
Carter Hart
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