Philadelphia vs Vancouver: The Flyers to start the new season with a win

The Vancouver hockey team has not been able to beat Philadelphia away since 2017. Will Travis Green’s men be able to break their losing streak now? We predict that the Flyers will once again be closer to success!

Last season, Philadelphia claimed some serious challenges but had a phenomenally poor second half of the regular season, missing the playoffs altogether. Of course, that kind of serious failure led to personnel changes. Notable players like Philippe Myers, Nolan Patrick, Shawn Gostisbehere, and Reds legend Jakub Voracek, who’d been the team’s leader for a decade, left the lineup. Notable signings include Ryan Ellis, Rasmus Ristolainen, Cam Atkinson, Keith Yandle, and Derick Brassard. Philadelphia are certainly not weaker in terms of names, but it’s important now for Alain Vigneault to avoid the embarrassment of the year before.

Vancouver also lost the cup battles last season, getting off to a great start to the regular season. Still, then the team had a coronavirus outbreak, so they had to reschedule games, causing a schedule that was so intense at the end that the Canucks couldn’t cope with it. In the off-season, the Canadian team managed to avoid serious personnel changes, but a young and promising team needs to progress. The current regular season had already begun for Travis Green’s charges when they lost to Edmonton in a shootout, 2-3, showing surprisingly decent hockey.

Philadelphia are one of the Eastern Conference’s strongest teams in terms of their roster, as they demonstrated in the first half of the last regular season. Surprisingly in the second part of the season, all that has disappeared somewhere, but their capabilities we all know very well. Vancouver are a younger and more ambitious team that has yet to grow to a Stanley Cup contender level. In their first game, the Cunacks got defeated, and now they will face an even more formidable opponent, so it begs the bet on Philadelphia’s victory for 1.88.

Philadelphia and Vancouver are teams that are located in different conferences and have different tasks from each other. Of course, they have little to share in such a situation, which is why their head-to-head encounters are very boring and inconclusive. In their last five meetings, the opponents combined for just 21 goals (4.20 goals per game on average), which is very modest by NHL standards. With that in mind, Total Under 5.5 pucks for 2.20 seems like a good bet.

Ivan Provorov is one of the main Olympic hopes of the Russian national team among defensive players. Besides his direct responsibilities, the 24-year-old defenseman is a solid defenseman on the power play and often plays on the power play. Last season he scored 26 points (7 goals + 19 assists) in 56 regular season games, which are very respectable. At the same time, the Russian is getting a more serious role in the Philadelphia squad every year, so it is worth taking a closer look at the bet on Ivan Provorov’s Total Over 0.5 points for 6.50.