Philadelphia Flyers (20-12-7, in the Metropolitan Division) vs. Edmonton Oilers (20-15-6, in the Pacific Division)<\/p>\n
Edmonton, Alberta; Saturday, 3:30 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Edmonton Oilers take on the Philadelphia Flyers in a non-conference matchup.<\/p>\n
Edmonton has gone 10-4-3 at home and 20-15-6 overall. The Oilers rank first in the Western Conference with 38 power-play goals.<\/p>\n
Philadelphia has a 9-7-3 record on the road and a 20-12-7 record overall. The Flyers have an 18-1-3 record in games they score at least three goals.<\/p>\n
Saturday’s game is the second time these teams meet this season. The Oilers won the previous meeting 2-1 in overtime.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Connor McDavid has scored 24 goals with 46 assists for the Oilers. Leon Draisaitl has three goals and 14 assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
Trevor Zegras has 15 goals and 24 assists for the Flyers. Carl Grundstrom has scored six goals over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Oilers: 6-4-0, averaging 3.4 goals, 5.8 assists, 4.6 penalties and 16.7 penalty minutes while giving up three goals per game.<\/p>\n
Flyers: 4-3-3, averaging 3.2 goals, 5.7 assists, 3.8 penalties and 8.2 penalty minutes while giving up 2.7 goals per game.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Oilers: None listed.<\/p>\n
Flyers: None listed.<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Philadelphia Flyers (20-12-7, in the Metropolitan Division) vs. Edmonton Oilers (20-15-6, in the Pacific Division) Edmonton, Alberta; Saturday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72592,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[39264,1165,1484,69,71,70,726],"class_list":["post-76296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-39264","tag-article","tag-nhl-hockey","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}