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Islanders vs. Montreal: NHL Match Prediction
The Islanders and Montreal will meet in New York on October 20. Both teams have had a less than successful start to the new season and are currently in the lower half of the Eastern Conference standings. The Habs will play only their second away game after an unsuccessful series of games on home ice. For the Isles, the match against the Canadians will be their fifth in the current regular season. Patrick Roy team has been extremely ineffective so far, but they are managing to cling to results. What will the match in the USA be like? Will there be many goals scored? Read about it in our forecast
Command Analysis
New York Islanders
USACurrent form
The Islanders lost to Utah in the opening game of the season (4:5, OT), after which they went on the road. On the road, Patrick Roy team lost to Dallas (0:3), but then won in Denver (6:2). In the last match, Anders Lee squad could not break through the defense of St. Louis (0:1, OT) and lost to the Blues in overtime. At the moment, the New York club occupies only 12th place in the East, having gained four points in four games.
The hosts have problems converting their chances. In four games, the Islanders have scored only ten goals, and twice left the court without scoring. So far, not a single Isle player is even in the top 100 best scorers in the league. Anthony Duclair has scored three points (2+1) in the goal+pass system, and Brock Nelson (2+1) is on this list with him. The team goalies are playing well. Ilya Sorokin has reflected 95.31% of shots and has an excellent reliability coefficient of 1.48.
Disqualifications and injuries
The Islanders will play at full strength on Sunday.
Interesting trends for betting
- The Islanders are averaging 33 shots per game.
The Isles attack the opponents' goal a lot, but only score 7.6% of the time.
- The home team won 52.2% of faceoffs
New York is doing well at the point and often takes control of the puck.
Montreal Canadiens
CanadaCurrent form
Montreal has already played five games in October and so far cannot boast of strong results. The team from Canada started with a home victory over Toronto (1:0), but the next day suffered a major defeat in Boston (4:6). After returning to their home ice, Martin St. Louis charges defeated Ottawa, and then played poorly in defense and did not score points in matches against Pittsburgh (3:6) and Los Angeles (1:4). Now the team from the province of Quebec has rolled back to 13th place in the Eastern Conference standings. The visitors have only four points after five matches.
The Habs are ravaged by a huge number of injuries. Patrik Laine was injured in the preseason and has not played a single official game for the visitors. Now the participation of Juraj Slafkovski is in question. The loss of the Slovak will be a very serious blow to the Montreal offense, because even with him, the Canadiens scored only 2.6 goals per game.
Disqualifications and injuries
Kaiden Gule, Rafael Harvey-Pinard, Patrik Laine, Corey Price and Chris Wideman are on the team injured list, with Mike Matheson and Juraj Slafkovski questionable.
Interesting trends for betting
- Montreal opponents block 20 shots per game
The Habs try to shoot from all positions and their shots often miss their target.
- The visitors' goal is averaged over 32 shots per game
The Canadians are playing very poorly in defense so far, and the goalies are unable to help out their teammates.
Trends
Bet 1st period: Islanders will not score
In the last three matches between the clubs, the Islanders have not scored in the first periods.
2.60Bet 2nd period: total under 1.5 goals
In three of the four games involving the Isles , the second periods were low-scoring
1.75Tip and bets
We think that the Canadian club is capable of holding on to the result and earning points in New York. The Islanders have won only one match this season and have not yet found their game in attack. The Habs are seriously exhausted and risk being left without Juraj Slafkovsky. However, in the only away game of the season, Martin St. Louis' charges looked great in Boston and were able to score four goals. In the six previous matches between the teams, Montreal has only lost to the Islanders once by more than one goal. We believe that the Canadiens are capable of imposing a fight on their opponent and maintaining a small positive handicap.
Prediction - Montreal win with Asian handicap (+1) for 1.90
Bet on individual total
The Islanders are lackluster in attack and have failed to score in two of their four games. Montreal concedes a lot and has had 14 shots on goal in three lost games. At the same time, the Canadians are quite capable of holding off the hosts' less powerful attack, which cannot boast of good execution of its chances.
We bet on the Islanders' individual total under 3.5 goals for 1.75
Total Bet
Both teams are still weak on offense. In nine games, the opponents have scored only 23 goals between them, which is only 2.55 goals on average. The last head-to-head matches between these teams have not been very productive. In New York, this pair has not scored more than six goals since 2020. We do not expect a lot of accurate shots from the game.
We take the total under six goals with a coefficient of 1.78
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