Shanghai Dragons - Sochi: betting tip (cf 1.95) and bets on the KHL match

Current form

The Shanghai Dragons are in ninth position in the West and do not lose hope of reaching the playoffs. The Chinese team scored a modest 45 points in 49 matches and is currently eight points behind SKA, which is ahead. Mitch Love's team started the new calendar year very poorly and scored only three victories in January. In the away series of games, they were defeated in Nizhny Novgorod (2:7) and Minsk (1:6), but then pulled themselves together and won a landslide victory at the Leopards (6:2).

Troy Josephs and Nick Merkley scored goals in the first period of the game against the Southerners and provided their team with a comfortable advantage. In the second half, the Dragons conceded on their own, but Troy Josephs, William Reilly and Kevin Labanque made the score devastating. Already in the third 20 minutes, Gage Quinney finished off the opponent with a goal in the majority and the Shanghai team calmly brought the matter to victory.

Nick Merkley scored 38 points (20+18) in the goal+pass system this season. He remains the main hope of the hosts in the attack.

Disqualifications and injuries

Patrick Ribar, Jeremy Grolo and Ben Harpur will not participate in the match due to injuries.

Interesting betting trends

• Shanghai Dragons win an average of 48.1% of face-offs
• According to statistics, the team makes 21 power plays per game.

Current form

Sochi closes the Western Conference table, but the Southerners do not intend to give up and want to regain the tenth place in the table. The team led by Dmitry Mikhailov scored 35 points in 47 matches and is still one point behind the Tolyatti team, but the guests have as many as three matches in reserve. The Leopards are performing very poorly after a good start to January, and they have won only one game in the last eight matches. In the home series, the Cats lost to Severstal (4:5, OT), Salavat Yulaev (1:2) and Shanghai Dragons (2:6).

In the match against the dragons, the Sochi defense crumbled quickly enough and by the first break they had lost by two goals. In the second 20 minutes, the then hosts went ahead and Sergey Popov scored one goal, but then the Southerners conceded four more goals in a row. Already at the very end, Dmitry Kagarlitsky realized the majority, but this goal did not affect anything.

Max Ellis remains the guests' top scorer. The American striker scored 25 points (14+11) in this regular season.

Disqualifications and injuries

Denis Vengryzhanovsky and Artyom Volkov will not play in St. Petersburg.

Interesting betting trends

• The Leopards receive an average of 8.09 minutes of penalty time per match.
• According to statistics, Southerners block 13 shots