After a tough 4-2 defeat on Saturday afternoon in Nashville, the Calgary Flames (2-9-2, 6 points) head east to face the Philadelphia Flyers (6-4-1, 13 points), hoping to get back into the win column and avoid becoming the first NHL club to hit double-digits in regulation losses.

It’s a clash of teams that played (and lost) on Saturday, and it’s a game the Flames really need a promising result from in order to generate some momentum in their season.

Today’s broadcast begins at 5 p.m. MT on Sportsnet’s national feed and Sportsnet 960 The Fan.

Saturday’s third period lines via Daily Faceoff:

Joel Farabee – Nazem Kadri – Yegor Sharangovich
Jonathan Huberdeau – Morgan Frost – Matt Coronato
Sam Honzek – Mikael Backlund – Blake Coleman
Ryan Lomberg – Justin Kirkland – Adam Klapka

Kevin Bahl – Rasmus Andersson
Joel Hanley – MacKenzie Weegar
Jake Bean – Brayden Pachal

Sportsnet’s Derek Wills is reporting that Dustin Wolf, who played the first period against Nashville, will start in net, backed up by Devin Cooley, who played the final two periods in Nashville. In theory, Wolf is the fresher goaltender. Wills is also reporting that Connor Zary and Zayne Parekh, extras in Nashville, will re-enter the lineup, so we’ll see who rotates back out.

The Flames have one regulation win this season and just two wins in 13 games so far this season. They haven’t played poorly, in the aggregate, but they’ve really done a poor job at key moments, with turnovers and ill-advised penalties often rearing their ugly heads. Simply put: they need wins, and they need to stop with the self-inflicted wounds hurting them in games.

We’ll see if they can turn the page against the Flyers.

Projected lines via Daily Faceoff:

Since Dan Vladar started against Toronto on Saturday, we’re projecting Aleksei Kolosov in net for the Flyers. Saturday’s extras were Nicolas Deslauriers and Adam Ginning.

The Flyers are off to a pretty decent start this season, with Saturday’s loss to Toronto snapping a three game winning streak. They’ve gotten some good performances across their lineup – Vladar’s been excellent, for example – and while they’re not world-beaters quite yet, they’re starting to trend in a positive direction. They are far from an easy out.

The Flames are without Martin Pospisil.

The Flyers are without Rasmus Ristolainen, Samuel Ersson and Sean Couturier.

This is the first of two games between these foes. They’ll close out the season series on New Year’s Eve in Calgary.

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