The Philadelphia Flyers (0-0-0) take on the Vancouver Canucks (0-0-1) Friday. Puck drop from Rogers Arena is scheduled for 10:00 PM ET. Let’s round up the NHL odds from BetMGM Sportsbook Flyers vs. Canucks chances and make our expert NHL picks and predictions.

Season Series: First Meeting; Last year Flyers won 2-0

The Flyers open their season Friday night after narrowly missing the playoffs last season thanks to a surprising surge. That is not expected this year, because they are going with some kind of youth movement around LW Matvei Michkovlast year’s first round.

The Canucks lost 6-5 in overtime against the Calgary Flames on Wednesday. The Canucks led 4-1 after one period and gave up four straight goals before tying the score with 1:37 to go. G Arthur Silovs saved just 20 of 26 shots in the loss. RW Brock Boeserwho had forty career goals last year, lit the lamp twice.

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Flyers vs Canucks odds

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• Moneyline (ML): Flyers +150 (bet $100 to win $150) | Canucks -185 (Bet $185 to win $100)
• Puck Line (PL)/Against the Spread (ATS): Flyers +1.5 (-165) | Canucks -1.5 (+140)
• Top/Bottom (O/U): 6.5 (O: +100 | U: -120)

Canucks flyers projected goalies

Samuel Ersson (23-19-7, 2.82 GAA, 0.890 SV%, 4 SO in 23-24) vs. Kevin Lankinen (11-6-0, 2.82 GAA, 0.908 SV%, 1 SO in ’23-24).

The 24-year-old Ersson enters the season as the undisputed starter after the team walked Carter Hart. Through 63 games in his two-year career, Ersson is 29-22-7 with a GAA of 2.87 and an SV% of .892. Ersson stopped 18 of 19 in a 4-1 win over Vancouver in December.

Lankinen had a solid year last year as Juuse Saros’ backup in Nashville. He hasn’t faced the Flyers since April 2022, when he stopped 33 of 34 shots in a 3-1 win at the Chicago Blackhawks.

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Flyers at Canucks picks and predictions

Prediction

Canucks 4, Flyers 3

Moneyline

The Flyers have won four of the last five meetings, but this Canucks team is on the rise. Their season-opening loss certainly left a bad taste in coach Rick Tocchet’s mouth, and he’ll have the guys excited for this. That said, -185 is too expensive.

Instead, take a look at QUINN HUGHES OVER 0.5 ASSISTS (-135). He had 2 helpers in the first game last season and 75 in 82 games.

Puck line/against the spread

I don’t like the puck line either. I don’t trust Vancouver to win by multiple goals, and I won’t pay -165 for the Flyers not to give up an empty-netter.

Give me instead BROCK BOESER OVER 2.5 SHOTS (+115). He had 3 SOG in Game 1 and 2 goals. He will like to shoot.

Top/Bottom

The Over is just 2-8 in the last 10 meetings, but the presence of Vancouver’s backup tender should help this win. The Canucks fizzled early in their first game with 4 goals in the first period. With equal money I will try to see if they get the necessary 4 or 5 goals to cash in the win MORE THAN 6.5 (+100).

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