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The Flyers and Sixers both begin their west coast swings on Saturday.

The Sixers are in Utah Saturday night and then head to Portland, Sacramento, and Golden State before returning to the east coast. The Flyers take on Anaheim Saturday afternoon and then go off to Los Angeles, San Jose, and Vegas.

In a rare occurrence, the Sixers and Flyers are both favored on Saturday, and quite frankly, they should be easy wins against the Utah Jazz and Anaheim Ducks.

Flyers (-148) at Ducks (Over/Under 6) 

The good news for Saturday is the Flyers play a mid-afternoon game in Anaheim.


The Cutter Gauthier storyline is prominent, but depending on who you ask, the narrative does or doesn’t matter.

Either way, the Flyers need to stop the defensive bleeding. They allowed at least four goals in each of the last five games, lost four of the last five and are coming off a seven-goal concession to Pittsburgh on Monday.

Anaheim actually possesses a better goals against average than the Flyers, but the Ducks also score 0.58 goals per game less than the Flyers and give up five more shots on goal per contest.

Ducks goalies have regularly been forced to make 30+ saves in games this season. I would look into Lukas Dostal’s over 26.5 saves prop. He’s got the nod against Sam Ersson.

The Flyers average 27.5 shots on goal per game, and as long as they’re up for the game, they should pepper the Anaheim net.

I’d look into the regular cast of characters (Owen Tippett, Travis Konecny, Matvei Michkov, and Travis Sanheim) as the best bets to cash the over on individual shots on goal props. None of them have been incredibly consistent in the last two weeks with SOGs, but the matchup suggests plenty of pucks will be on net.

The over should be in play as well. Eight of the 10 Flyers games in December have had at least six goals. The other two had five goals each. The Ducks have had one December game finish with less than five goals.

Sixers (-7) at Jazz (Over/Under 223.5) 

The Sixers should be riding high after their Christmas Day win in Boston.

On Saturday, they get a matchup against a Jazz team that is only 7-22 and regularly gives up high point totals.

Utah is 16-13 to the over, a mark that is the sixth-best in the NBA. The over is 8-1 in the last nine Jazz games.

The Sixers are just 3-5-1 to the over in December, and don’t get me started on their performance against the spread as a big favorite. They are 1-6 ATS as a favorite of five or more points.

Of course, that number should get better as Joel Embiid rounds into form, and, let’s be honest, with Embiid, PG and Maxey on the floor Saturday, they should cover the number easily.

Embiid’s point prop sits at over/under 27.5. That might be the last time we see it under 30 if he goes off on Saturday night.

Utah has the third-worst field-goal percentage against in the NBA and ranks in the bottom 10 in three-point percentage against and assists allowed per game.

Not all of the Sixers props are out as of Saturday morning, but it could be worth attacking some three-point player props, or just simply go after the Sixers’ team total of over/under 115.5.

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