It seems a trip to Philadelphia is all Sidney Crosby needs to make up for lost time.

Crosby scored 43 seconds apart in the first period Saturday night, collecting the 34th and 35th goals of his career versus the Philadelphia Flyers, his most against any team.

Here's his first, scored on a rising snap shot from a difficult angle:

And his second, a one-touch rip from the slot on the power play:

It's the fifth time Crosby's had a multi-goal performance on the road versus Pittsburgh's in-state rival.

The captain's also within two goals of the league lead just seven periods into his season after missing the Penguins' first six games.

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The Minnesota Wild will be without Zach Parise and Marco Scandella on a week to week basis, as the team announced Saturday that both have been sidelined with lower-body injuries.

Parise and Scandella suffered the ailments in Thursday's 4-0 shutout victory versus the Buffalo Sabres.

It's a tough blow for the Wild, with Parise off to a solid start, having scored six points in eight games. He only trails blue-liner Ryan Suter for the team lead in scoring.

Scandella has recorded one assist in seven contests, missing one game earlier this month due to an illness.

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Jimmy Howard is paying tribute to the former voice of the Detroit Red Wings, Dave Strader, with a portrait of the accomplished play-by-play announcer on the mask he's wearing Saturday to support the NHL's awareness initiative 'Hockey Fights Cancer'.

Strader, who's most recently lent his voice to the Dallas Stars, was diagnosed in June with cancer of the bile duct.

He's expected to appear on the Red Wings' broadcast during their game versus the Boston Bruins.

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The Ottawa Senators believe Binghamton is the perfect place for Curtis Lazar.

Senators general manager Pierre Dorion says there is no plan to call up the team's 2013 first-round pick, telling Bruce Garrioch of the Ottawa Citizen "the best thing for Curtis is to go down there and play and play as well as he can play."

The Senators assigned Lazar to their AHL affiliate in Binghamton after he missed training camp with mono, providing him an opportunity to get his game up to speed. It's also a new experience for the 21-year-old who had not played in the AHL prior to this season. He has tallied two points in five games.

"(He can) play in all situations and I think it's the right thing to do. Let him get confidence and when the time comes we'll call him back up but there's no timetable to call up Curtis," Dorion added. "(It's) for him to work on his skills. We didn't draft Curtis just to be a third- or fourth-line guy, we drafted Curtis to be an impact player for us."

Lazar has 143 NHL games to his credit, but has scored just 35 points. That's a far cry from his last year in junior in which he scored 76 points in 58 games with the WHL's Edmonton Oil Kings.

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First the quality of ice; now the quality of practice.

NHL agent Allan Walsh directed his frustration at the New York Islanders on Saturday, voicing his displeasure on Twitter about the club carrying three netminders again this season.

Walsh suggested that the three goalies - two of which are his clients - are not receiving the appropriate amount of practice time to "stay sharp."

Without mentioning his name, Walsh added that Jaroslav Halak (again, his client), had one quality practice in the five days leading up to the team's loss at the hands of the Pittsburgh Penguins on Thursday.

His other client, J-F Berube, hasn't made a start this year with Thomas Greiss serving as the club's main backup. However, he would make the same salary - and Walsh the same cut - on assignment in the minor leagues, according to CapFriendly.

It's important to note, however, that Berube has to clear waivers in order to be sent down.

Halak has a middling .916 save percentage in 41 starts across this season and last.

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No pressure, Tyler Graovac.

Speaking with reporters Saturday, Minnesota Wild coach Bruce Boudreau stated what he's looking for from the forward who was recalled from the AHL earlier in the day.

"He scored two goals last night (with Iowa, the Wild's AHL affiliate). He scored a goal and got in a fight the other night," Boudreau said. "We want to see his competitiveness that maybe we didn't see as much in training camp and how bad he wants to play in the NHL.

"Play a good game. We're not asking for him to go out and pull an Auston Matthews and get four goals in your first game or anything. We just want him to be a solid contributor and play like he belongs here."

Gravoac started the year in the AHL after failing to make the NHL out of training camp. The 23-year-old has four points in six games with Iowa this season.

Gravoac has appeared in five NHL games since 2014-15 but has yet to record a point.

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No pressure, Tyler Graovac.

Speaking with reporters Saturday, Minnesota Wild coach Bruce Boudreau stated what he's looking for from the forward who was recalled from the AHL earlier in the day.

"He scored two goals last night (with Iowa, the Wild's AHL affiliate). He scored a goal and got in a fight the other night," Boudreau said. "We want to see his competitiveness that maybe we didn't see as much in training camp and how bad he wants to play in the NHL.

"Play a good game. We're not asking for him to go out and pull an Auston Matthews and get four goals in your first game or anything. We just want him to be a solid contributor and play like he belongs here."

Gravoac started the year in the AHL after failing to make the NHL out of training camp. The 23-year-old has four points in six games with Iowa this season.

Gravoac has appeared in five NHL games since 2014-15 but has yet to record a point.

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The defensive core of the Minnesota Wild will see an upgrade Saturday, as coach Bruce Boudreau confirmed Jared Spurgeon will be in the lineup when the Wild face off against the Stars.

Spurgeon missed the last four games with an upper-body injury. The 26-year-old has tallied two points in four games this season.

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The Arizona Coyotes still believe in Dylan Strome.

Speaking with Craig Morgan of Arizona Sports, general manager John Chayka was quick to dispel any notion that the Coyotes are not satisfied with the progress of Strome, the team's top prospect.

"The belief out there that we're not happy with Dylan's game, that's just not true," Chayka said. "We're very excited and happy about the progress he's made in the last three weeks to a month.

"He went from a player who has gotten by on talent for a while to becoming one of our hardest workers in practice and that's a prerequisite to being a top player in the NHL: your work ethic and your level of commitment every day in practice."

Strome has been a frequent healthy scratch in the early goings, appearing in just three of the team's seven games. The third overall pick in 2015 has not played in Arizona's last three games and is not slated to be in the lineup Saturday when the Coyotes take on the Colorado Avalanche.

Strome recorded an assist in his NHL debut versus the Ottawa Senators earlier this month, his lone point on the season.

Strome can play nine games before the Coyotes need to decide whether he sticks with the club or returns to junior with the OHL's Erie Otters, where he scored 111 points in 56 games last season. As a 19-year-old junior, Strome is ineligible to play in the AHL.

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The Dallas Stars have activated forward Jiri Hudler off injured reserve, the club announced prior to Saturday's game versus the Minnesota Wild.

With Hudler's return, the Stars reassigned forward Justin Dowling to the AHL.

Hudler's missed the past five games battling an illness, and hasn't recorded a point in two games with the club. However, Dallas will welcome any offensive boost, as they rank 22nd league-wide with only 18 goals for.

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