Consider the game of two western clubs that are now confidently included in the leadership group and the top eight teams of the conference.
Reigning Champions Bluesmen topped the table in the west with their strongest streak of 7 consecutive wins (or 9 out of 10 last matches). However, only the other day the team returned home at the end of the entire difficult away series and hardly managed to fully recover from the difficult schedule, or at least the upcoming game will be necessary to rebuild after the last two busy weeks of the regular season.
As for Arizona, after an unsuccessful previous week (with a 1-1-2 score), the team managed to confidently start a new one, beating Washington away yesterday (4: 3 B). It is clear that being on the b2b away game, and even after yesterday’s very energy-consuming match, it is difficult to demand 100% of the result from the Coyotes, but it seems that the bookmakers again underestimate them a little in the meeting against the nominal favorite.
Firstly, in terms of personal meetings, which is important if we are talking about two representatives of the same conference, for the Coyotes in the games against St. Louis, everything is going well, namely: 4 wins in the last 5 matches between opponents!
Secondly, it should be borne in mind that Arizona in the current season is even more a “guest team”, going by this indicator in a high 2nd place in the conference and losing in regulation time only two times out of 10 played away matches. By the way, it is St. Louis that is the best away team right now, playing a bit worse at home, but that’s not about that now.
In addition, today goalkeeper Darcy Kümper will return to the goal for the guests, yesterday he was resting and preparing for an important meeting against the Bluesmen, which is important for betting on the overall TM in the match! As for the hosts, according to pre-match information, Jordan Binnington is expected to play, which is again important if you bet on the “grassroots” result of the game.
If some completely curious unexpected moments do not happen here (like a puck in the first minute of the period), then I expect a confident pass and offer as the main forecast for Total less (5.5) in the game of two defensive teams with the main goalkeepers at the start! I do not think, given the difficult schedule of both and the importance of the points scored in the face-to-face meeting, that open hockey will prevail here and most likely the teams should not break through the total.
Just as I mentioned earlier, I highly appreciate the likelihood of Arizona not losing in the second away game in a row, and because of the impressive current winning streak of St. Louis, the bookmakers put them in some overstated quotes, but in fact the teams’ chances can be assessed as approximately equal (50 to 50).
Outcome: 2: 3 (bul) ✅✅✅
