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Today’s Starting Goalies - December 28th

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James O’Brien

Whether you’re interested for fantasy hockey reasons or just want to know which goalie your team is playing in a given day, we thought it might be helpful to share our best guesses (based on various previews from newspapers and Web sites plus our own instincts) on who might start each day.

7:00 pm ET games

Atlanta @ Pittsburgh

Likely Atlanta starter: Ondrej Pavelec (Source.)

Likely Pittsburgh starter: Marc-Andre Fleury (Source.)

Montreal @ Washington

Likely Montreal starter: Carey Price (Source.)

Likely Washington starter: Semyon Varlamov (Source.)

Carolina @ Toronto

Likely Carolina starter: Cam Ward (Source.)

Likely Toronto starter: Jonas Gustavsson (Source.)

7:30 pm ET game

Boston @ Tampa Bay

Likely Boston starter: Tim Thomas -Not a guarantee by any means since he played last night, but others are leaning this way. (Source.)

Likely Tampa Bay starter: Dan Ellis (Source.)

8:00 pm ET games

Dallas @ Nashville

Likely Dallas starter: Andrew Raycroft (Source.)

Likely Nashville starter: Pekka Rinne (Source.)

Chicago @ St. Louis

Likely Chicago starter: Marty Turco - Apparently Corey Crawford is still dealing with the flu. On the bright side, the Blackhawks will probably get Patrick Kane back tonight. (Source.)

Likely St. Louis starter: Ty Conklin (Source.)

9:00 pm ET games

Buffalo @ Edmonton

Likely Buffalo starter: Ryan Miller - My best guess.

Likely Edmonton starter: Nikolai Khabibulin - Also my best guess.

Anaheim @ Phoenix

Likely Anaheim starter: Jonas Hiller - You know the drill.

Likely Phoenix starter: Ilya Bryzgalov - It sounds like the talented Russian might finally be back after being out of action since December 15th. (Source.)

10:00 pm ET game

Philadelphia @ Vancouer

Likely Philadelphia starter: Brian Boucher (Source.)

Likely Vancouver starter: Roberto Luongo (Source.)