After losing back-to-back games to start their five game road trip, the Calgary Flames (25-32-7, 57 points) head to Newark for a clash with the New Jersey Devils (32-30-2, 66 points). The Flames are working some new faces into their lineup recently and are in an evaluation phase of sorts. Can they keep that phase going with a win in New Jersey?

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

Projected lines via Daily Faceoff:

Blake Coleman – Mikael Backlund – Joel Farabee
Yegor Sharangovich – Ryan Strome – Victor Olofsson
Matvei Gridin – Morgan Frost – Matt Coronato
Connor Zary – John Beecher – Adam Klapka

Blake Coleman – Morgan Frost – Joel Farabee
Connor Zary – Ryan Strome – Matvei Gridin
Victor Olofsson – Mikael Backlund – Matt Coronato
Ryan Lomberg – Yegor Sharangovich – Adam Klapka

Kevin Bahl – Olli Maatta
Yan Kuznetsov – Hunter Brzustewicz
Joel Hanley – Brayden Pachal

Via Sportsnet’s Derek Wills on the road, there’s new lines! Dustin Wolf looks to be the starter, backed up by Devin Cooley. The projected extras are Zayne Parekh, Ryan Lomberg and Martin Pospisil.

The Flames lost both games on their back-to-back, dropping contests to Washington and the NY Rangers by a combined score of 11-3. They haven’t been bad, but they’ve made mistakes at key times that have snowballed on them. And their goaltending and special teams just haven’t been enough to bail them completely out of those mistakes.

Projected lines via Daily Faceoff:

Timo Meier – Nico Hischier – Dawson Mercer
Arseny Gritsyuk – Jack Hughes – Connor Brown
Jesper Bratt – Cody Glass – Lenni Hameenaho
Paul Cotter – Nick Bjugstad – Evgenii Dadonov

Luke Hughes – Johnathan Kovacevic
Jonas Siegenthaler – Dougie Hamilton
Brenden Dillon – Simon Nemec

We’re projecting Jacob Markstrom in net, backed up by Jake Allen. The projected extra skaters are Dennis Cholowski and Maksim Tsyplakov.

The Devils split a weekend back-to-back, beating the Rangers on Saturday and then losing to Detroit on Sunday. They’ve been idle since then, which could give them an advantage over a Flames team that’s already played twice this week. The Devils are 12 points out of the second Eastern wild card spot, but they’re also well ahead of the worst Western teams. They’re in no-man’s land, at least right now.

The Flames are without Sam Honzek, Jake Bean, Jonathan Huberdeau and Zach Whitecloud.

The Devils are without Zack MacEwen, Stefan Noesen and Brett Pesce.

This is the second and final meeting between these teams this season. The Devils beat the Flames in overtime in Calgary back in January.