Toronto Maple Leafs plays host to Philadelphia Flyers in their fourth and final meeting of the season
The second game on Thursday will be played at the Air Canada Center as the home team, Toronto Maple Leafs, plays host to the Eastern Conference leaders, Philadelphia Flyers.
This will be the fourth and final meeting between the two sides during the course of the game.
Out of the three games that have already taken place during the course of the season Flyers won the first two meetings while Maple Leafs won the third.
The most recent meeting between the two sides saw the game very close and it went right down to the wire but it was Maple Leafs who scored with under five minutes of play left to play. Resultantly, they won the game by 3-2.
Leafs will be facing some tough times as they have a whole lot of games that they will play with teams above them in the league. The question that is eagerly awaiting answer is that whether they will maintain the streak of not losing a game in regulation
time for the past the 11 games.
Flyers, on the other hand, were going through some tough times of their own which saw them losing four games in a row.
However, in their last game against Edmonton Oilers, they won to snap the streak and are now looking to get back on the winning roads.
"I would say (we played) 23, 24 good minutes the way we need to play to be successful," Flyers’ defenseman, Chris Pronger, said. "We played a team that had a lot of injuries and a lot of youth and we were able to capitalise on some chances early in that
first period, got off to a lead. You look at the latter part of the second and probably the last 12, 14 minutes of that third period, it was us sitting back, standing still, turning pucks over, and they came at us wave after wave."
Flyers have played 66 games during the season so far out of which they have won 41 games in regulation time and six games in overtime to score a total of 88 points.
Maple Leafs have played 67 games during the course of the season out of which they have won 29 games in regulation time and 10 games in overtime and scored a total of 68 points.
Maple Leafs’ success in the last few games has been through Mikhail Grabovski.
He has performed very well and scored six points in the last six games to take his total goal tally to 25 scoring a total of 50 points.
"What I like best (about Grabovski) is how serious and committed he is to being a complete player," Leafs’ general manager, Brian Burke, said. "He spends a great deal of time preparing mentally and is a gym rat. And he's tough and low-maintenance."
The game will be very a very close fought contest as both teams look to notch up important points as they look trying to get on the winning roads.
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