Preview: Flyers at Red Wings

FLYERS (17-10-3) at RED WINGS (13-12-3)
5 p.m. ET; TCN-PH, FS-D, NHL.TV

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Flyers team scope

The Philadelphia Flyers have won eight in a row, including 4-2 Saturday at home against the Dallas Stars. The Flyers trailed 2-1 with four minutes to play. "If you look over the last eight or nine games, we've had a no-quit attitude the whole way, and Saturday was no different," said Brayden Schenn, who had a hat trick. Jakub Voracek had a goal and three assists and has 15 points during the winning streak. "I went six games without a point a couple weeks back, and I don't think I am playing any different now," he said. Goalie Anthony Stolarz will make his second NHL start.

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Red Wings team scope

The Detroit Red Wings are 2-7-2 in their past 11 games at Joe Louis Arena after a 4-1 loss to the Columbus Blue Jackets on Friday. They have four home games in the next six days. "We have this home stretch and we need to pick up as many points as we can," forward Tomas Tatar said after the latest loss. "Home games are an advantage, and we have to use it." Coach Jeff Blashill went with 10 forwards for most of the third period against Columbus in an attempt to generate offense. Tomas Jurco and Steve Ott each had one shift in the period.

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Flyers projected lineup

Michael Raffl -- Claude Giroux -- Jakub Voracek
Travis Konecny -- Brayden Schenn -- Wayne Simmonds
Nick Cousins -- Boyd Gordon -- Dale Weise
Chris VandeVelde -- Pierre-Edouard Bellemare -- Roman Lyubimov
Ivan Provorov -- Andrew MacDonald
Mark Streit -- Radko Gudas
Brandon Manning -- Shayne Gostisbehere
Anthony Stolarz
Steve Mason
Scratched: Nick Schultz, Michael Del Zotto, Taylor Leier
Injured: Sean Couturier (lower body), Michal Neuvirth (lower body), Matt Read (upper body)

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Red Wings projected lineup

Anthony Mantha -- Henrik Zetterberg -- Tomas Tatar
Gustav Nyquist -- Riley Sheahan -- Thomas Vanek
Luke Glendening -- Frans Nielsen -- Dylan Larkin
Tomas Jurco -- Andreas Athanasiou -- Steve Ott
Danny DeKeyser -- Mike Green
Brian Lashoff -- Alexey Marchenko
Niklas Kronwall -- Xavier Ouellet
Jimmy Howard
Petr Mrazek
Scratched: Drew Miller, Ryan Sproul
Injured: Darren Helm (upper body), Brendan Smith (lower body), Tyler Bertuzzi (ankle), Justin Abdelkader (lower body), Jonathan Ericsson (back)

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Status report

Mason has started back-to-back games twice in the past three weeks, including Dec. 3-4. … Gordon replaced Leier in the lineup against Dallas. … Ericsson missed the game against Columbus with back spasms and is day to day. … Howard will start for the Red Wings. He stopped all seven shots he faced after replacing Mrazek against the Blue Jackets, his first appearance since missing six games with a groin strain.

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Who's hot

Voracek has two goals and six assists in his past two games and has at least one point in seven of the past eight (15 points). … Schenn had the fifth game with three power-play goals in Flyers history and the first since Scott Hartnell in Jan. 19, 2008.