MINI-PREVIEW 7:30 AM EST

Winners of four straight games, the Flyers (31-11-5) will look for the 1,000th home victory in franchise history today when the club takes on the New Jersey Devils (14-29-3) in a 1 PM EST matinee at the Wells Fargo Center. The Flyers are 3-0-1 against New Jersey this season, and swept a home-and-home set with the Devils earlier this month.

Today's match is a potential trap game for the Flyers. The team is winning. They're playing a bad team. A rematch with the Stanley Cup champion Blackhawks is looming tomorrow and it would be very easy to be mentally unprepared for the Devils today. That said, the Flyers have generally managed such situations well this year. But they are in the second game of yet another three-game-in-four-night stretch, and need to be smart about managing their energy and not making things unduly difficult on themselves today.

It should also be noted that the Devils have played better hockey of late. They are 4-0-1 in their last five games, and are coming off a 2-0 win over the Penguins (albeit without Sidney Crosby or Evgeni Malkin in the Pittsburgh lineup).

PROJECTED LINEUPS (subject to change)

FLYERS

Zherdev/Powe - Richards - Nodl
Hartnell - Briere - Leino
JVR - Carter - Giroux
Shelley - Betts - Powe/Zherdev

Pronger - Carle
Coburn - Timonen
Meszaros - O'Donnell

Boucher/Bobrovsky


DEVILS

Kovalchuk - Zajac - Tedenby
Rolston - Elias - Zubrus
Zharkov - Arnott - Clarkson
Pelley - Sestito - Mair

White - Greene
Fraser - Volchenkov
Fayne - Tallinder

Hedberg
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