There’s at least one franchise that resides inside the Wells Fargo Center that isn’t a chaotic mess at the moment.

The Philadelphia Flyers aren’t exactly turning heads across the NHL, but they have been competitive over the last two weeks.

The Flyers are 4-2 in their last six games and the two losses have come in one-goal games, so there’s some hope that even with the Carolina Hurricanes in town on Wednesday, and the Flyers a +195 underdog, they can continue to be competitive.

Hell, the Flyers did just that in Raleigh on November 5th in a 6-4 loss in which they trailed by multiple goals for a whole two seconds.

The Hurricanes have been one of the most consistent teams in the NHL, but three of their four losses have come on the road. They lost two of three on their last road swing to the Colorado Avalanche and Utah Hockey Club.


Carolina’s early-season trademark, as we saw firsthand 15 days ago, is scoring goals. The Canes produced at least four goals in all but one of their 13 victories.

Recently, Flyers games have trended toward the over. Part of that run has to do with the opposition since the San Jose Sharks, Buffalo Sabres, and Ottawa Senators are bottom half teams, but the Flyers also took the Florida Panthers to a shootout in a 3-3 tie and played in a 3-2 contest with the Avs over the last five games.

With all that being said, the over 6.5 is absolutely in play on Wednesday night.

Carolina is averaging four goals and 34.1 shots per game, while the Flyers are letting in 3.47 goals per game.

I’d look into a few trends to help you find the best bets for Wednesday night.

First of all, Martin Necas has been a point-producing machine for the Canes. He is already at 30 points and had a goal, assist and five shots on goal versus the Flyers earlier this month.

The Flyers are allowing the third-most shots on goal per game to left wingers, which puts Andrei Svechnikov in the mix. He leads the Canes with 62 SOGs and has had at least 2 SOGs in seven of eight games in November.

Carolina does not have any huge defensive deficiencies, so for Flyers props, it’s best to go with the hot hands of Owen Tippett and Travis Sanheim.

Tippett is at least starting to shoot the puck more with 3+ SOGs in six of his last eight games. Sanheim has been given more of a license to shoot this season and has 2+ SOGs in each of his last six games. Sanheim’s SOG prop is typically listed at over/under 1.5 and a ladder up to 3 SOG is suggested as well because of his recent volume.

I’d even argue that betting on Sanheim to score is worth it, despite the high number, because of how often he is putting pucks on net.

For PA betting promos, and NJ sportsbook promos, DraftKings is offering an odds surge on any goal scorer bet for Wednesday’s NHL games. I’d use that on Necas or Svechnikov just because every Flyer other than Travis Konecny has odds to score of +260 or higher.

FanDuel is offering a 25% profit boost on NHL Same Game Parlays of +100 or longer. I would build that with Svechnikov and Tippett 3+ SOG, Sanheim 2+ SOG and Necas to have 1+ point. The SGP is +455 before the boost kicks in.