Edmonton Oilers vs Philadelphia Flyers Prediction: Who will turn out to be stronger?

Prediction for the NHL match which will take place on January 3. Who will turn out to be stronger? Check the team conditions! Several betting options are available.

Edmonton continues to make every effort to save this season. It's all about the fact that the Oilers failed the starting stretch of the regular season, and because of that, they found themselves among the league outsiders. All this led to the resignation of Jay Woodcroft, and Kris Knoblauch became the new head coach. Things started to pick up with him, and they had a particularly productive stretch at the end of November when they won eight games in a row. After that, there was a series of three consecutive defeats, but they managed to overcome a series of failures by beating New Jersey 6:3, the Rangers 4:3, San Jose 5:0, Los Angeles 3:2, and the day before Anaheim 7:2. The Blue and Orange now sit in tenth place in the Western Conference standings.

Philadelphia is also having a decent regular season, having performed extremely poorly in recent years and becoming a hopeless league outsider. Now, they have made progress in the game. From the very beginning of the season, they began to show good results. December, they began with an 8-match series with points, during which they managed to win seven victories with one defeat from Nashville in overtime - 2:3. At the same time, the end of December was unsuccessful for the Flyers, as in the last five battles they suffered four defeats, beating only Vancouver - 4:1. Despite such a modest stretch, the Pennsylvanians remain in sixth position in the Eastern Conference standings.

Philadelphia spends the regular season much better than Edmonton, but the Oilers are in better shape for the face-off. They have picked up a great run, winning the last five games in a row, which excites them to win back one position in the Western Conference standings after another. The Flyers, on the contrary, struggled at the juncture of December and January, allowing four losses in five previous meetings. The team is the clear favorite in the upcoming battle.

In recent years, the confrontation between Edmonton and Philadelphia has been characterized by very modest goal activity. In the previous four head-to-head meetings, the rivals combined for only 16 goals (4.00 average per game), and in all four battles, there was a bookmaker's total under. In addition, in three out of four cases, at least one of the teams scored less than two goals.