Zane McIntyre starts in goal for the Providence Bruins on the road against the Charlotte Checkers this evening at 6.

The teams will play again tomorrow at 1 p.m.

Rob O’Gara, just back from Boston, is in the lineup for the P-Bruins.

Jeremy Lauzon didn’t make the trip after suffering an upper-body injury in the win at Binghamton on Wednesday.

It is the first Providence-Charlotte game since March 2011, when the P-Bruins won, 4-2, at The Dunk.

Providence got goals from Alain Goulet, Trent Whitfield (2) and Stefan Chaput. Anton Khudobin kicked out 25 shots.

Providence starts the night in third place in the Atlantic Division with a .625 winning percentage. Charlotte (.579) is fifth.

Here are the lines for Providence:

Agostino-Czarnik-Senyshyn

Porter-JFK-Fitzgerald

Blidh-Cave-Acolatse

Gabrielle-Hennessy-Hargrove

The D pairs:

Cross-Clifton

Breen-Johansson

O’Gara-Zboril

Binnington backs up McIntyre.