As 2 of my three picks dropped the last of which came from fashion I couldnt recover my momentum.
The night got off to a nice start as Boston Bruins and the Tampa Bay Lightning moved back-and-forth before the game needed a shootout with the 2 clubs knotted at threes later overtime. The Lighting obtained a Steven Stamkos target late as we hit on the Lighting at odds in this 28, while Andrei Vasilevskiy stood tall.
The night went downhill from that point. After becoming the first objective of the match, the Winnipeg Jets would enable the 3 markers and proceeded to lose their third straight home game. The offense isnt clicking and it bit me on two of the past few nights.
Ultimately, my selection of the night between Coyotes and the Predators lost because the total went thanks — you guessed it — an empty-netter. We sat with a push into the third stage but a Carl Soderberg empty-netter secured our destiny and gave us our second night that was losing throughout the previous three.
It has been a week to this stage, but lets go into the weekend on a high note in a matchup between the Columbus Blue Jackets and Chicago Blackhawks in the United Center in Chicago.
Season Record: 6-7
Units: -1.85
Odds courtesy of Bovada
Blue Jackets vs. Blackhawks Betting Odds:
Blue Jackets (+120)
Blackhawks (-140)
More than 6.5 (-105)
Under 6.5 (-115)
Blue Jackets vs. Blackhawks NHL Pick
As the Blackhawks and Blue Jackets butt heads out of the United Center, it is a meeting from the Windy City tonight.
Columbus enters this one riding high after winning consecutive games a mini win streak after falling three of those first four games of the season. John Tortorellas team has plenty to establish after losing Matt Duchene, Artemi Panarin, Sergei Bobrovsky along with Ryan Dzingel to a free agency in the offseason. Naturally, theyve been much better.
Scoring goals remains an issue. The Blue Jackets passes this one yelling tied for 28th with just 2.33 goals per game on the season and while they have been improved against a couple of poorer offenses over the past three matches, they have still allowed 3.33 goals per match on the rear end. Goaltending was a problem so much following GM Jarmo Kekalainen decided against upgrading the goaltending position after the departure of Bobrovsky, rather handing the keys Joonas Korpisalo. While Korpisalo was much better of late, it seems tonights start will go to Elvis Merzlikins who has made just another start this season.
Obviously, said begin didnt go well. Merzlikins was torched by the Pittsburgh Penguins good to an .825 Svpercent within his NHL debut. We do know that he put in some wonderful work from the league for six seasons before taking his talents while we dont know about Merzlikins in an NHL perspective. Merzlikins submitted a solid .921 Sv% in each of the last two seasons in Switzerlandhe found out first that the NHL is an entirely new ball game.
Merzlikins will come face to face with keep whats a Chicago Blackhawks offense at bay within this one. They havent fully hit their stride this season as they sit with an even three goals per game despite the normal surge in October scoring, however keep in mind this was the leagues most eighth-ranked offense from a season ago. The gifted quarter of Dylan Strome, Patrick Kane, Jonathan Toews and Alex DeBrincat must find the Blackhawks back to the top 10 this season while Erik Gustafsson is all the sudden one of the defensemen in the league by an offensive standpoint.
On the back end, the Blackhawks are decent when enabling 3.25 goals per match, a number that puts them right in the middle of this league. But it has been in their penalty kill thats hurt them the most as they position 30th with an awful 61.5% mark over the PK, nevertheless for tonight the good thing is the Blue Jackets power play has scuffled a tiny bit using a 16.7% clip, great for a share of 23rd alongside the Vancouver Canucks.
In four games played this season, the Blackhawks have allowed only six even-strength goals against. Their blueline was updated with the trade imports of Olli Maatta from Calvin p Haan and the Penguins in the offseason from a standpoint from the Hurricanes. The expectation is that the Blackhawks can be improved from their defense from a year past.
They also updated their goaltending situation in the offseason with Robin Lehner whos coming from a season using the New York Islanders. Lehner has made only one start this year, but will really get start number two against those Jackets. In his lone start of the year, Lehner allowed three goals on 33 shots in a 3-2 overtime loss. Despite getting almost all of his notoriety past year, Lehner has actually been a very good goaltender during his nine-year NHL career as he owns a .918 Sv and continues to be at .920 or greater in three of their last four seasons. He just was not enjoying for winning teams with the Ottawa Senators and Buffalo Sabres. To me, theres very little doubt about who has the goaltending benefit in this one.
All told, Im on the tonight. An losing streak snapped using a win over the Edmonton Oilers that were white-hot , giving them their first loss of the year in the process. They outshot the Oilers 35-28 in that individual. I like the looks of the offense and that I can not help but feel that they have a major chance tonight with no goaltender who can not be playing with much confidence after being torched in his only appearance this season. They have scored at least three goals in each match this season, but I figure they can easily eclipse that mark given the circumstances .
The Blue Jackets have been better particularly on the rear end, but defending the Blackhawks at the United Center could be a tricky job and I feel the Blackhawks crime is prepared to break out. That will not be great news for Elvias Merzlikins and Co. as Im taking the Blackhawks to win this one to the moneyline tonight.
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