The Vancouver Canucks look to bounce back from an opening game loss with a victory on the road Saturday when visiting the Philadelphia Flyers. Vancouver was defeated by the Edmonton Oilers 5-3 in their opening game of the season on Wednesday. Scoring for Vancouver in the loss were Elias Pettersson, JT Miller and Andrei Kuzmenko. Vancouver jumped out to a 3-0 lead but gave up five unanswered goals to lose by two.
After just one game of the regular season, Vancouver is scoring an average of 3.00 goals per game and allowing an average of 5.00 goals per game. The Vancouver power play is successful 12.5% of the time and its penalty-kill unit is successful 25.0% of the time. Three players have one goal each for Vancouver while the leader in points is JT Miller (1 goal, 1 assist). In goal, Thatcher Demko is 0-1-0 with a goals-against average of 4.13 and save percentage of .833.
Philadelphia looks for its second consecutive victory to start the regular season when hosting Vancouver on Saturday. Philadelphia opened its regular season with a 5-2 victory over the New Jersey Devils on Thursday night. Travis Koencny and Morgan Frost each scored two goals for Philadelphia, while Wade Allison scored one. Goalie Carter Hart made 35 saves for Philadelphia.
After just one game in the regular season, Philadelphia is scoring an average of 5.00 goals per game and allowing an average of 2.00 goals per game. Philadelphia's power play is scoring 33.3% of time and its penalty kill unit is successful 66.7% of the time. Travis Konecny and Morgan Frost each have two goals for the Flyers, while Ivan Provorov, Tanner Laczynski and James van Riemsdyk each have two assists. Carter Hart is 1-0-0 with a goals against average of 2.00 and save percentage of .946.
Recent Betting Trends
- Vancouver is 0-4 in its last 4 on the road
- The OVER has cashed in 9 of the Canucks last 13
- Philadelphia is 2-6 in its last 8 at home
- The UNDER has cashed in 3 of the Flyers last 5
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