Dan Carcillo promises to add a little grit to the Flyers line-up.

By MARK SPECTOR

sportsnet.ca

CHICAGO - Abrasive winger Danny Carcillo is in for Philadelphia tonight, though his head coach Peter Laviolette once again wouldn't confirm any roster changes. So much for a Flyers team that didn't take a single penalty in Game 1.

The arrival of Carcillo to this series should ratchet the hate factor up a few notches, a theme that most of the Blackhawks were expecting to play out after a tepid Game 1.

"They are probably pretty mad at themselves. They scored five goals on the road and don't come up with the victory," Patrick Kane said of the Flyers. "So I'm sure as the series goes on, it will probably get a little more intense and the physicality will pick up a bit. But it seems like they're a pretty nasty team. I guess you expect it from them."

Blackhawks' Adam Burish welcomes a little ill will. That's his game, as Canucks fans have discovered the last two springs.

"I liked hating Vancouver. That was fun for me," Burish said. "This is fun in a different way, because it's the finals. But I like playing against someone I hate."

And pity poor Ryan Parent. The Flyers defenceman played just a single, 41-second shift in Game 1, and now it looks like he'll be in the press box tonight. Latvian defenceman Oskars Bartulis draws in for just his third game of the playoffs.

Andrew Ladd is still out for Chicago. He skated by himself before Hawks practice.

ICE WOES

The clouds rolled in, the humidity jumped up to 82 percent, and thunderstorms are forecast in Chicago on Monday. You know what that means - ice even more brutal than it was for Game 1.

"It's not good. As the period goes on, the last seven, eight minutes ... it's bouncing, The puck's all over the place," Burish said. "Now we've got the temperature. I don't expect it to be good. It hasn't been good all year."

Ice guru Dan Craig is here and on the job, but there is no way to control it. When the heat goes up and the humidity rises, the ice quality sewers. And the bad news? It was 33 C in Philly on Monday, and temperatures are supposed to be around 30 C all week.

TALKING OUT OF TWO MOUTHS

Laviolette got his story mixed up at the podium Monday, trying to explain how the Flyers flip-flopped on Sunday on announcing who their starting goalie would be for Game 2.

Early Sunday afternoon, Laviolette opened his media conference by saying, "We will keep everything internally with regards to lineups, lineup changes, lines, goaltenders. Anything that's internal, we'll probably keep it internal."

A few hours later, about 4 pm Chicago time, the Flyers P.R. department announced that Mike Leighton would start. "We had not had conversations until we got back to the hotel and had a coaches meeting last night."

Did they make the call last night? Was it in the afternoon? Why is the P.R. department announcing who the starting goaltender is, when the coach clearly is averse to revealing who is in and who is out of his line-up?

Sounds like some disconnect here.