Flyers vs Senators: Betting Odds, Projected Lines, Season Series At Stake

The Philadelphia Flyers are set to finish out a three-game homestand by hosting the Ottawa Senators at the Wells Fargo Center.

Fresh off of a 3-1 over the Arizona Coyotes in their last contest, the Philadelphia Flyers will face off with the Ottawa Senators for the second time this season. Philly fell to their Eastern Conference counterpart by a score of 2-1 in their first meeting, looking lackluster in the first 40 minutes only to turn it on in the third but fall by one. The Flyers must play a consistent all-around game this time around if they want to salvage the season-series against a team in Ottawa they’re clearly better than on paper.

One way they can do so is by taking advantage of a below-average Senators’ defense. Ottawa enters this game allowing the 12th and 11th highest amount of total Scoring Chances and High Danger Scoring Chances Against with 614.81 and 248.5 at 5-on-5 with Score and Venue Adjusted, according to Natural Stat Trick. That averages out to around eight and a half High Danger and 21 total Scoring Chances Against, which isn’t awful but can certainly be exploited.

Philadelphia has to find a way to muster up more than one goal this evening because the Sens don’t do much on the other end of the ice, either, sitting near the bottom of the NHL in Goals-For. Ottawa can easily be beaten if you find the back of the net more than three times, too, as they’ve gone 1-12-1 in games where they surrender at least three tallies, which is around half of the contests they’ve played this year coming into tonight.

Flyers Betting Odds

Courtesy of The Action Network, the Flyers have a -210 on the Moneyline and the Senators posses a +176. This is likely due to the fact that Philadelphia has won six of their last eight games while Ottawa has lost five of their last six.