Colorado vs. Tampa Bay: NHL Match Prediction

Current form

Colorado is temporarily outside the playoff zone and currently occupies ninth place in the West. However, the team has significantly improved its position compared to the start of the season, when absolutely nothing worked out for it, and it lost match after match. It should be noted that the Avalanche recently managed to produce an excellent series of five victories. However, after another, but absolutely difficult victory over Ottawa (5:4), they unexpectedly lost at home to Chicago with a score of 2:5, being the clear favorite of the confrontation. At the same time, Jared Bednar team failed the first period and the end of the third segment, and spent the second twenty minutes without goals scored or conceded, although they created many dangerous moments near the opponent goal and, in general, looked more active than their counterpart.

Usually, the Avalanche achieve success in the opponent zone thanks to their activity, because they have classy players in the team who are able to finish any situation and convert it into a goal. That is why we often see at least three or four goals scored per game from the club. In addition, Colorado is very good at using its opportunities to score in the majority, because it ranks third in the league in this indicator and currently has 36.4% of the extra man conversion rate. Casey Mittelstadt is not "calming down" either, having already managed to score 13 points in the goal + pass system and scored six goals. Apparently, the managers did not miscalculate with his transfer.

Disqualifications and injuries

Landeskog, Lehkonen, Drouin and Colton will not take part in the match.

Interesting trends for betting

• On average, Colorado gets eight minutes of penalty time.

The Avalanche, in general, play with discipline and do not get penalized more than four times in a match.

• The Avalanche are winning 46.1 percent of their faceoffs.

In recent matches the team has improved this indicator, but it still remains one of the worst in the league

Current form

Tampa is in sixth place in the Eastern Conference and is gradually starting to improve its position in the standings. For this to happen faster, of course, the team needs to have a solid winning streak, but there are still difficulties with this. Recently, it has alternated successful matches with defeats. Fortunately, after an unsuccessful confrontation with Minnesota (2:4), the Lightning finally pulled themselves together and dealt with Washington on their home ice (3:0), and also proved their superiority over Nashville in a tough fight, winning two victories in a row for the first time since the beginning of the season. Ahead of the Bolts, there is a very difficult series of away matches, in which even half of the points earned will be considered a success.

It is obvious that the game is best for John Cooper team when there are no more than one or two pucks in the net. No matter how well they play in attack, they still cannot achieve results in such a game. But Nikita Kucherov continues to demonstrate a high level, who, although he did not score in the last two games, shares the first place among the best snipers in the league with Kyle Connor. However, Tampa needs to improve their play in unequal compositions, and especially in the majority. At the moment, they are in one of the last positions in this indicator and have only 16.1% of implementation.

Disqualifications and injuries

There are no injured or disqualified players on the team.

Interesting trends for betting

• According to statistics, Tampa Bay shoots no more than 27 times on goal

Oddly enough, the Lightning show modest shooting activity, but they also allow very few shots on their own goal

• The Bolts are 13-7 in goals scored and allowed in the third period.

Tampa Bay has a strong finish to games and often finds success in the third period