10:07 pm
December 10

Flyers @ Golden Knights

Who will WIN this matchup?

Philadelphia Flyers (8-12-4)

@ Vegas Golden Knights (15-10-0)

 

Starting Goalies:

Carter Hart (PHI): Confirmed

Robin Lehner (VGK): Unconfirmed

 

Current odds:

Philadelphia Flyers: (+220)

Vegas Golden Knights: (-250)

 

• The Philadelphia Flyers continue to careen in the wrong direction. The Flyers will look to avoid a season-worst 11th consecutive loss when they travel to face the Vegas Golden Knights on Friday night.

• Philadelphia lost eight straight games and then fired head coach Alain Vigneault and replaced him with assistant Mike Yeo on an interim basis. Since Yeo took over, the Flyers fell 7-5 to the Colorado Avalanche and then came back with a flat 3-0 loss on the road against the New Jersey Devils on Wednesday.

• The Flyers, who have been outscored 47-18 during the skid, last dropped 10 in a row during the 2017-18 season but still earned a playoff berth. They haven’t won since Nov. 16 and right now, the idea of reaching the playoffs seems bleak.

• The Flyers have resembled a team with very little confidence during this losing streak, which cost Vigneault his job in just the beginning of his third season.

• The schedule doesn’t lighten, starting with this difficult matchup on the road against the Golden Knights. All the Flyers can do is move forward.

• The Golden Knights, meanwhile, will be searching for their fourth straight win, which would mark a season high. In its most recent game Wednesday, Vegas defeated the Dallas Stars, 5-4. Mark Stone scored two goals and the Golden Knights rallied from a two-goal deficit in the third period to keep surging. Stone extended his point-scoring stretch to six, though he hadn’t scored a goal since an empty-net tally on Nov. 24 against the Nashville Predators.

• The Golden Knights’ recent streak can be chalked up to a much healthier team. They have been hit hard with injuries and absence due to COVID-19.

6/10
Confidence
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Vegas Golden Knights
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