Philadelphia, PA (My Sportsbook) - The Philadelphia Flyers seek their fourth consecutive victory tonight when they welcome the Phoenix Coyotes to the First Union Center.

The contest will be a matchup of goaltenders who were traded for one another this past offseason. Robert Esche is scheduled to start for Philadelphia, and Brian Boucher is slated to be in net for Phoenix. Esche and center Michal Handzus were dealt to the Flyers for Boucher and a third-round pick on June 12.

Esche's Flyers have toppled the Canadiens, Islanders and Senators since losing their only game of the season, to Buffalo on October 22. Tuesday versus Ottawa, captain Keith Primeau scored two goals, including the game-winner with 2:49 remaining in the middle period.

Primeau, who seems to be out to prove something this season, has five goals in the last three games for Philadelphia, which is unbeaten in its first four home games (3-0-1) for the first time since the 1995-96 campaign.

The Flyers have jumped out to quick starts in each of the last two games. Tuesday, Primeau made it 1-0 a mere 23 seconds in, and in Saturday's 6-2 pounding of the Islanders, Handzus and Justin Williams put Philly ahead 2-0 with goals in the first 31 seconds.

Philadelphia, 5-2-1 at home on Halloween, concludes a three-game homestand Saturday against Washington. The Flyers' last loss in a home game on Halloween was on October 31, 1981, 8-4 versus Vancouver.

Phoenix, meanwhile, finishes up a road trek of the same span tonight, after snapping a three-match losing streak (0-2-0-1) with Tuesday's 3-2 victory over the Isles.

A night after squandering a 2-0 lead at Madison Square Garden, the Coyotes came back from an identical deficit to pick up their fourth triumph of the young season. Mike Johnson and Daniel Briere knotted things with a power-play goal apiece in the second frame, and Landon Wilson bagged the game-winner by batting the puck out of the air and into the net late in the third.

Boucher made 31 saves in his fourth consecutive start in place of the injured Sean Burke. He improved to 3-4-0 with a 3.22 goals-against average and .898 save-percentage.

Boucher spent five years in Philadelphia -- three with the Flyers and the two before with the American Hockey League's Phantoms. His shining moment came as a rookie in 1999-2000 when he guided Philly to within a game of the Stanley Cup Finals. The two years after that, however, were spent in a tug-of-war between him and fellow netminder Roman Cechmanek for playing time.

Phoenix returns home to face Nashville on Sunday in the first installment of a three-game homestand.

The Coyotes have won three straight games in this series after a five-game losing streak. The Flyers' last win against the Coyotes was on March 13, 2000, 4-1 at Phoenix.