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(Sports Network) - Neither the Flyers or the Predators have much breathing room in their respective playoff races. Both teams will attempt to earn a much-needed two points when Philadelphia tries for its first victory in Nashville in almost 10 years this evening at Bridgestone Arena.

Both the Flyers and Predators come into this battle holding slim margins for playoff spots. Philadelphia is even with Montreal for sixth place in the Eastern Conference, but only four points ahead of Boston, which is in eighth. The ninth-place New York Rangers are five points behind the Flyers.

Nashville, meanwhile, is seventh in the West and has a one-point cushion on eighth-seeded Detroit, while Calgary is just three points back of the eighth spot.

The Predators, however, are coming off a big 3-2 victory over fifth-place Los Angeles on Sunday to end a four-game road trip at 3-1-0. Nashville's Colin Wilson scored 39 seconds after the Kings took a one-goal lead early in the third period and Patric Hornqvist netted the game-winner with 3:31 to go in regulation.

"It was a big goal," Hornqvist said. "We had the puck deep, got the cycle going, and [Dan] Hamhuis made a great play to me from the net and I got it around the goal and it was nice to see it went in. Everybody in this locker room worked really hard and it was a nice game and two points is the biggest thing."

Steve Sullivan also scored for Nashville, which begins a three-game homestand tonight, and Pekka Rinne made 18 saves in the Preds' seventh straight win over the Kings.

The Flyers, meanwhile, didn't have as much success as the Predators on Sunday. One day after a big last-second win over Chicago, Philadelphia came out flat in a 3-1 setback to the Rangers that featured a pair of goals by New York's Sean Avery.

Danny Briere had the lone Flyers' tally and Michael Leighton made 18 saves for Philadelphia, which dropped its third straight road contest in the opener of a four-game swing that also features trips to Dallas and Atlanta.

The Flyers are still 8-3-1 over their last 12 games, however.

"[The Rangers] came out and wanted it more than us," Briere said. "I don't think we did such a bad job defensively, but on offense we didn't get much going."

Though the Flyers haven't won in Nashville since March 21, 2000, they have still picked up their fair share of points in the Music City. Philadelphia is 0-0-1 with a pair of ties in its last three road games versus the Predators and 2-0-1 with two ties all-time in Nashville.

Philadelphia also posted a 4-1 home win over the Preds on March 7, 2009 to snap a two-game series losing streak. Mike Richards and Claude Giroux both had goals for the Flyers.

Current Flyers Scott Hartnell and Kimmo Timonen, who both had their rights acquired in a trade with the Predators for a first-round draft pick in June of 2007, will play at Bridgestone Arena for the first time since that deal.