Thursday NHL Preview: Philadelphia vs. Toronto

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Thursday NHL Preview: Philadelphia vs. Toronto

The Philadelphia Flyers are in a losing streak and hopefully the game against the Maple Leafs can change that.

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Ilya Bryzgalov has been real good at home lately, as long as his Philadelphia Flyers don't end up in a shootout.James Reimer had been mostly awful in road games until his most recent one.

Bryzgalov could square off against Reimer and the Toronto Maple Leafs in Philadelphia on Thursday night in a matchup of goaltenders who had briefly lost their No. 1 jobs but have played well lately.

While the Flyers (30-16-7) look to halt a season-high three-game losing streak, the Maple Leafs (28-20-6) try to bounce back from their first regulation loss in seven games.

Toronto won in Philadelphia in the teams' only meeting of the season, 4-2 on Oct. 24, but backups Jonas Gustavsson and Sergei Bobrovsky were in net.

Bryzgalov has beaten the Maple Leafs all three times he's faced them, stopping 62 of 64 shots, and he's 4-0-3 in eight home games since the calendar flipped to 2012. All three defeats came in shootouts, with Bryzgalov stopping just two of the opponents' seven shots. He's turned aside all but two of the 77 shots he's faced in regulation and overtime of his last four home games.

The offseason acquisition posted his first shutout since Oct. 8 and first at home in a Flyers uniform Tuesday, but he let the New York Islanders score on both of their shootout attempts in a 1-0 defeat.

A struggling Bryzgalov was splitting time with Bobrovsky for a month-long stretch that went into late January - even getting benched for the Winter Classic - but has reclaimed the No. 1 job with a 1.69 goals-against average over his last eight games.

Reimer lost Toronto's No. 1 job last month - he had only one start in January - after losing seven of 11 games in December while posting a 3.23 GAA. However, he started the team's first three games this month and won them all, including two shutouts.

This is going to be one of the best games of the night as these teams try and turn into a new direction and start winning hockey games.