Winnipeg vs. St. Louis. NHL Match Prediction and Bets

Current form

Winnipeg has already stopped leading the Western Conference standings and allowed its closest pursuer, Minnesota, to catch up, so it should not relax in any case and needs to pull itself together in the near future. Note that for most of the season the team has been demonstrating great results and has almost always been on a winning streak. It is clear that sooner or later a series of failures had to replace good times. By the way, right now the Jets are on a series of three defeats and cannot recover. Note that earlier they lost on the road to Los Angeles (1:4), Vegas (3:4), and also in the final confrontation they could not cope with Dallas - 1:3.

At the same time, Scott Arniel team has recently had serious problems with scoring, because in many cases he was left with no more than one goal scored. Also, one of the club main scorers, Nikolaj Ehlers, left the team quite recently, without whom the situation in attack will probably get even worse. By the way, the team has not changed anything in its game, the puck simply does not "go" into the goal.

However, in terms of power play, the “air army” still remains one of the best in the league and currently ranks second in this indicator, with a 31.5% power play conversion rate.

Disqualifications and injuries

Ehlers and Samberg will not play in the upcoming match due to injuries.

Interesting trends for betting

• Winnipeg averages 8.16 penalty minutes

Winnipeg typically gets sent off at least four times per game.

• The Jets have a 31-20 goal-to-goal ratio in the second period.

The team performs best in the second twenty minutes and often scores goals in it

Current form

St. Louis currently occupies 11th place in the West and has managed to score 24 points. The team is even gradually improving its position in the standings, although it has not been distinguished by stable results throughout the season. Let us emphasize that not once this year have the “Notes” won more than two victories in a row. They have recently played away, where they lost to the Islanders (1:3), then dealt with the Rangers (5:2) and New Jersey (3:0), but upon returning to their home court they could not cope with Philadelphia, losing to them with a score of 2:3 in overtime.

However, we must give credit to Jim Montgomery team, because in the previous confrontation with the "flyers" he could have been left without any points at all, because by the end of the third period he was losing 1:2. Only thanks to the majority realized 20 seconds before the siren, the "Notes" took the game into overtime, but they missed Matvey Michkov chance to meet the goalie, which is why they were left with only one point to their credit.

The Blues have a very difficult away series ahead, in which they will certainly leave a lot of energy. Note that before this, the away game with St. Louis was not going well, because the club celebrated success in regulation time only four times, and on average, no less than three pucks ended up in the net of their goal.

Disqualifications and injuries

Leddy, Krug and Buchnevich will not be able to take part in the upcoming fight.

Interesting trends for betting

• St. Louis averages 7.68 penalty minutes per game.

The Blues are usually sent off at least four times a game.

• The "Notes" have 22:30 in goals scored and conceded in the third period

Montgomery team has been showing some pretty weak play in the final stretch of the season.