NHL Wednesday's Best Bets: Columbus Blue Jackets vs Montreal Canadiens and Flyers vs Rangers
NHL Wednesday's Best Bets: Columbus Blue Jackets vs Montreal Canadiens and Flyers vs Rangers
This one will be determined by pace early as they usually are; you are all aware I approach games from multiple angles and there is never just one factor determining how I make my wagers. Some of the key things I like to dive into when attacking totals like I love to do rely on the pace of play, matchup history, recent form, and not necessarily trends but consistency to either do or not do certain things.
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Columbus Blue Jackets vs Montreal Canadiens Prediction
Tonight is one of those games where those factors play into my ride quite a bit here and I think this one will be determined by the pace of the game in the first 20-25 minutes as they usually are. That goes for most totals, the pace early is important to hitting them; teams that score early tend to open up the game, pash is pushed both ways, it just opens things up.
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Behind just Minnesota and Florida, Columbus has hit the hit 1P o1.5’s 49/71 games this season hitting over 67% of the time and at home, the split improves to 25-9-3. They are also the second-best GIFT team in the league at a tad over 67% on the season. Montreal is both 7-3 L10 1p o1.5’s and GIFTS; even better they 5- L5 1P o1.5’s on the road.
On the season they rank second and third-worst in the league for GA/G both over 3.70; neither netminder is all that impressive, Merzlekins is definitely better but with that pace, this one will be played at and recent form all around I easily see them both giving up a few if this one gets going strong. They both are averaging over 3.00 GF/G post-All-Star break.
I like the line at o6.5 here enough to play it but I like these alternate looks on this one as well because of my pace theory and I love the value in playing it this way. If it gets going early I think we cruise.
Columbus Blue Jackets vs Montreal Canadiens Pick
Play o6.5 -105 for 2u or o6 -140 for 3u (Bet $105 to Win $100)
Same-Game Parlay
1st period o1.5/ total o5.5 (+100) for 2u (Bet $100 to Win $100)
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Philadelphia Flyers vs New York Rangers Prediction
This one lies around netminders so I will keep it very brief. This is the second day of a back-to-back for New York and Igor played last night so I assume he will be out. If Alexander Georgiev is in net I love this total at 5.5 or 6 easily; with Igor in net, I feel differently as he allowed four last night, and could see him hungry for a strong game here.
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Just check as often as you can, if it's AG I think this one is wide open and New York runs up the total as they look to keep pushing for that division title. If it’s Igor they might grab a few and sit on their lead so here is how I am waiting to play this one.
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Philadelphia Flyers vs New York Rangers Prediction
if Igor is in:
Same-Game Parlay
Rangers ML/o4.5 -120 1.5u (Bet $120 to Win $100)
if Alexander is in:
total o6 -105 1u (Bet $105 to Win $100)
Same-Game Parlay
1st period o.5/total o5.5 -130 2u (Bet $130 to Win $100)
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