Philadelphia Flyers at Colorado Avalanche: Gametime, TV info, lineups and discussion thread

No fancy gamethread tonight because we were running late with some stuff tonight. Our bad.

Philadelphia Flyers (20-16-4, 44 pts) at Colorado Avalanche (24-11-4, 52 pts)
9 p.m. | Pepsi Center | Denver, Colo.
TV: CSN Philly | Radio: 97.5 The Fanatic
Get the Colorado perspective at Mile High Hockey

Flyers lineup

Raffl - Giroux - Voracek
Hartnell - Schenn - Simmonds
Downie - Couturier - Lecavalier
Rinaldo - Hall - Rosehill

Timonen - Coburn
Grossmann - Streit
Schenn - Meszaros

Avalanche lineup

O'Reilly - Duchene - McGinn
Landeskog - Stastny - MacKinnon
MacLeod - Mitchell - Talbot
Bordeleau - Cliche - Malone

Hedja - Johnson
Wilson - Barrie
Benoit - Sarich

*projected lineups, subject to change

Questions to Answer:

1. Do Steve Downie and/or Max Talbot end up impressing their old teams?
2. Speaking of, how does the third line look with Matt Read out and Downie back up?
3. A lot has been made of late about how much better the blueliners have been at generating offense and scoring chances. Do we see that tonight?
4. New month for Steve Mason. December wasn't great for him but he ended if quite nicely. How's he start the new year out?

Mason (.922) and Semyon Varlamov (.926) in net. Go Flyers.