Boston Bruins at Philadelphia Flyers 10/20/21 - NHL Picks & Predictions

The Boston Bruins hit the road on Wednesday for an Eastern Conference showdown with the Philadelphia Flyers. Boston is 1-0-0 with two points following a 3-1 victory over the Dallas Stars to open the regular season on Saturday. Brad Marchand scored a pair of goals for Boston and Jake DeBrusk scored to break a tie in the early stages of the third period to help lead the Bruins to the victory.

After just one game of the regular season, Brad Marchand is the leader in goals scored with two and in points with two. Three players for Boston each have one assist. In goal, Jeremy Swayman is 1-0-0 with a 1.00 goals-against average and .964 save percentage. Boston did not score on any of its three penalty play opportunities versus the Stars and held Dallas scoreless in all six of its power-play opportunities. 

Philadelphia looks for its second consecutive victory when hosting Boston on Wednesday. Philadelphia is 1-0-1 with three points following a 6-1 victory over the Seattle Kraken on Monday. Claude Giroux, Joel Farabee, Travis Konecny, Derrick Brassard, Justin Braun and Ryan Ellis each scored for Philadelphia. Carter Hart stopped 24 of the 25 shots faced in net.

Joel Farabee is the leading goal scorer for Philadelphia with two and the leader in points with four. Keith Yandle is the leader in assists with three. In goal, Carter Hart is 1-0-1 with a goals-against average of 3.78 and save percentage of .921. Philadelphia is scoring an average of 5.00 goals per game and allowing an average of only 2.00 goals per game. Philadelphia's power play is scoring 20.0% of the time and its penalty-kill unit has been successful 75.0% of the time.