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This is the first nationally broadcasted game this year for the Flyers as they face the Penguins in Philadelphia at 2pm eastern today. The Penguins have won all 5 meetings so far this year last winning 8-4 on December 13.

The Flyers are coming off a 4-2 loss to the Montreal Canadiens on Thursday. The Flyers are on a 5 game losing streak and have not won at home since November 24.
The Penguins are coming off a 5-2 loss to the Florida Panthers on Wednesday. The Penguins are also on a 3 game losing streak.

Antero Niittymaki will get the start in goal even with a record that includes 12 straight losses. With the pickup of Leighton and the continued play of Nitty one could easily speculate that Esche will be gone before the end of the season. I suspect the Flyers want to get something in return from him instead of just letting him walk at the end of the season.

Injuries for the Flyers include Mike Rathje, Mike Richards, Geoff Sanderson and Denis Gauthier. Both Richards and Sanderson should be ready sometime next week.
For the Penguins Josef Melichar, Nils Ekman, Eric Cairns and Mark Eaton are listed as injured.

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Flyers come back home to face the Montreal Canadiens.
The Canadiens lead the season series 2 games to 1 beating the Flyers 4-2 on December 21. The Flyers are coming off a horrible showing against the Capitals in Washington losing 6-2 on Tuesday. The Canadiens are coming off a 4-2 win against the Atlanta Thrashers on Tuesday.

Injuries for the Flyers include Mike Rathje, Denis Gauthier, Mike Richards and Geoff Sanderson.
Forsberg will be back, but I am not sure how long he will last.

The Flyers will be honoring Eric Desjardins tonight at the game. Fitting I think since he played for both Flyers and Canadiens.
Desjardins talks to the media about his career in the NHL.

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The ceremony honoring Eric Desjardins was nice and it was great that Center Ice carried CSN which showed the activities. But besides that the game was the typical Flyers game we have seen this year.
Jeff Carter and Joni Pitkanen scored for the FLyers. Pitkanen’s goal was his first of the season, hopefully that will get him started.
Forsberg played decent his first game back.
Antero Niittymaki was average in goal, not a lot jump in the Flyers game business as usual.