Devin Cooley’s recent Calgary wins have involved plenty of work: 29 saves against Detroit and 26 against Toronto. Those nights give Flames parlay picks against the Flyers a useful starting point if you’re backing Calgary while expecting Philadelphia to keep putting shots on net.
For this Side & Support Parlay Plays edition, Cooley’s saves in Flames wins are compared with all his Calgary starts. Matvei Michkov supplies the other route through his assist record in Flyers losses. The idea is to choose a contribution that suits your Calgary-win view, with both players’ all-game records kept alongside it.
Two Flames parlay picks to compare
Both rows cover the 2025–26 and 2026–27 regular seasons with each player’s current club. Cooley’s records use starts, including shortened ones; Michkov’s use skater appearances. There are only fourteen Calgary wins in Cooley’s starting sample, four of them this season. Individual DraftKings prices were observed Sunday morning, November 8, and can change.
| Player & prop | Odds | With this result | All appearances |
|---|---|---|---|
| Devin Cooley 24+ saves 2025–26 & 2026–27 regular seasons |
+100 | 92.9% 13 of 14 CGY winning starts |
63.6% 21 of 33 CGY starts |
| Matvei Michkov Under 0.5 assists 2025–26 & 2026–27 regular seasons |
−280 | 92.5% 49 of 53 PHI losses |
72.7% 72 of 99 PHI appearances |
Devin Cooley: 24+ saves
Cooley is confirmed as Calgary’s starting goalie. In his four winning starts this season, he stopped 34 shots against Carolina, 38 against Minnesota, 29 against Detroit and 26 against Toronto. Each night supplied enough work for 24 saves while Calgary still came away with the win.
The 24+ offer paid +100, as did the equivalent over-23.5 line. Dropping to 22 saves cost −185 and covered all fourteen winning starts and 25 of 33 starts overall in the longer record, compared with thirteen wins and 21 starts at 24. The difference was a 22-save win over Chicago last January. You can pay for that cushion, but a Flames win doesn’t by itself guarantee 24 saves.
Twenty saves was −360 and covered those same fourteen wins and 27 of 33 starts overall. That added two successful starts compared with the 22-save offer, without rescuing another winning game. That’s a considerably heavier price for a change that helped only outside the winning sample here.
If you prefer more payout, 26 saves was +175 and covered twelve of fourteen Calgary wins and nineteen of 33 starts overall. It would have missed a 25-save victory over St. Louis last March, even though Cooley played 65 minutes. Moving up another two saves to 28 paid +300 but covered only ten of fourteen wins and seventeen of 33 starts overall, including three of this season’s four wins.
The most recent appearance is the sharpest caution. Cooley made only eight saves in twenty minutes against Edmonton. His other losing starts this season ended with 22 saves against Vancouver and 23 against Colorado. He’s reached 24 in four of seven starts overall, so the winning record is much stronger than the all-game one.
Matvei Michkov: under 0.5 assists
Michkov can score and this under can still land. He scored twice in Philadelphia’s loss to Anaheim this season without recording an assist. His losing appearances against Carolina, Ottawa, Detroit and Washington also brought goals without helpers. That’s the distinction if you want to back Calgary without needing Michkov completely off the scoresheet.
Under 0.5 assists cost −280. It’s the heavier-priced choice of these two, asking him to finish without a helper. He’s done that in thirteen of fourteen Flyers losses and fifteen of eighteen appearances this season, while Calgary’s goalie offer pays plus money and has a much less consistent record across all starts.
Michkov’s recent Minnesota game is the exception to the current losing pattern: an assist and four shots in 16:20, even though Philadelphia lost. His next appearance against the Rangers ended with no assist and no shots in 15:56. Those two nights put the limitation plainly: a Flyers defeat can still include a productive shift from him.
The longer record contains three other losing appearances with an assist, against Toronto, Carolina and the Rangers last season. Those misses came with between 13:26 and 15:52 of ice time. It hasn’t taken an unusually long night for him to set up a goal.
He’s on Philadelphia’s expected third line. He also went without an assist in seven of eight playoff appearances last spring. Those games are separate from the regular-season record in the table. The point here is his passing contribution in a defeat, rather than a claim that his current line assignment or a Calgary win prevents an assist.
Other Flyers assist unders were more expensive: Christian Dvorak at −290, Tyson Foerster at −360 and Owen Tippett at −400. Across the two regular seasons, Dvorak went without an assist in 37 of 52 Philadelphia losses and 64 of 98 appearances overall. Foerster did so in 21 of 25 losses and forty of 46 appearances; Tippett in 43 of fifty losses and 72 of 93 appearances. Michkov’s losing-game record is stronger than each at the lighter price, though one helper is still enough to beat the under.
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Decide where you want the support
Cooley’s 24 saves give you a plus-money route that leaves room for Flyers pressure. Paying for 22 saves buys more room for a quieter night; reaching for 26 asks for another stop beyond his 25-save St. Louis win. Michkov’s under instead puts the focus on one Philadelphia player’s passing, with a higher cost and room for him to score a goal.
Choose the route that matches your view without treating the two separate records as a combined chance. Follow the live Flyers–Flames matchup and explore more NHL parlay ideas.
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