Boston Bruins vs Philadelphia Flyers Prediction, Odds and Picks for Today, 04/05/26

It’s hard to get a read on what exactly the Boston Bruins are as we enter the stretch run of the Stanley Cup Playoffs. They entered Saturday 6 points ahead of 4 teams chasing them for the wild card spots, but blew a third period lead against the Tampa Bay Lightning to open the door for all those teams to gain ground. However, all 3 active teams also lost in regulation, which meant it was no harm, no foul for the Bruins and made it even more difficult for any of those teams to catch them with time running out in the season. The problem for the Bruins is that the fourth team, which was inactive, was waiting at home for Boston to play them on Sunday afternoon.

If the Flyers can grab a regulation win off the Bruins on Sunday afternoon, they’ll leapfrog 3 other teams and shockingly sit in the second wild card position, just 4 points behind Boston to move to first. It’s a team that not many people saw coming in the playoff race, but the struggles of all the teams ahead of them have opened the door.

The Bruins can move 8 points up on all the teams chasing them with a regulation win, which would all but clinch a playoff spot with just 5 games remaining in most of their seasons and a favorable tiebreaker number of regulation wins for Boston. The Bruins are an underdog here with their recent struggles, but they’ve been making a habit of winning games people don’t expect all season, and they aren’t going to take kindly to going 0-2 in their Florida road trip.

Bruins vs Flyers prediction: Boston Bruins ML (+120) available at time of publishing. Playable at that number. 

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