{"id":487566,"date":"2026-01-02T17:31:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T17:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/487566\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T17:31:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T17:31:14","slug":"edmonton-and-philadelphia-face-off-in-non-conference-matchup-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/487566\/","title":{"rendered":"Edmonton and Philadelphia face off in non-conference matchup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">Philadelphia Flyers (20-12-7, in the Metropolitan Division) vs. Edmonton Oilers (20-15-6, in the Pacific Division)<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Edmonton, Alberta; Saturday, 3:30 p.m. EST<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">BOTTOM LINE: The Edmonton Oilers take on the Philadelphia Flyers in a non-conference matchup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">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<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">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<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Saturday&#8217;s game is the second time these teams meet this season. The Oilers won the previous meeting 2-1 in overtime.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">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<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Trevor Zegras has 15 goals and 24 assists for the Flyers. Carl Grundstrom has scored six goals over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">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<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">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<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">INJURIES: Oilers: None listed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Flyers: None listed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dataskrive.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Data Skrive<\/a> and data from <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportradar.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">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,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3778,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[220113,5229,347,16068,1448,2830,1311,62,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-487566","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-220113","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-article","11":"tag-nhl-hockey","12":"tag-pa","13":"tag-pennsylvania","14":"tag-philadelphia","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-united-states-of-america","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115826700120777103","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}