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Its NHL betting time once again. The Edmonton Oilers vs. Vancouver Canucks is on tap tonight. Both will be trying to pick up a win with the line opening with Canucks as a -215 favorite in this matchup. The over/under is set at 5.5, here is the handicapping preview…

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Edmonton Oilers (23-43-11) at Vancouver Canucks (52-17-9)
Date/Time: Saturday, April 2, 2011, 10:00 PM ET
Venue: Rogers Arena, Vancouver, British Columbia
Broadcast: CBC (HD)
Oilers vs. Canucks Betting Lines from Bodog.com
Spread:
Moneyline: Vancouver -215
Over/Under: 5.5

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Can you say mismatch? The league’s worst team goes on the road Saturday to take on the league’s best team! The result seems hardly in question!

Edmonton would be a bad team even with all of their regulars in the lineup! But take out Ales Hemsky, Taylor Hall, Shawn Horcoff, Ray Whitney, Sam Gagner and Kurtis Foster and all that is left is the best players that the Oilers have in the farm system – they are on the farm for a reason!

Edmonton has lost 11 straight games – 11! Jordan Eberle will represent the biggest point producer in the Oilers lineup on Saturday and he has 39 points on the season – 39! Daniel Sedin has 100. Nobody is hot offensively for Edmonton and even if I did throw out a name, it is very likely that you haven’t heard of them.

You wanna talk Oilers goaltending? Nikolai Khabibulin is 0-5-1 in his last six starts with a 3.34 goals against average and Devan Dubnyk is 0-2-1 in his last three with a 3.94 goals against average. Yuk!

Now let’s get to some good stuff. The Vancouver Canucks clinched their first ever President’s Trophy on Thursday night and have a legitimate shot to be their first post expansion era team to finish with a league best in goals for, goals against, power play and penalty killing. The Canucks are solid top to bottom and are a handful for absolutely every team in the NHL.

Offensively, nobody can slow down the Sedins – the trick is to simply limit the damage. The top line is lethal, the second line is terrific, the third line with Jannik Hansen is heating up and the fourth line is as good as the top line on the Oilers. Expect to see a lot of the role players on Saturday night – health is the prime concern for the Canucks in this contest!

It is likely that Roberto Luongo sits on Saturday night paving the way for Corey Schneider to build on a very impressive record as of late. Schneider is 6-0-0 in his last six starts with an incredible 1.65 goals against average.

Betting Prediction: The Edmonton Oilers are 11-22-5 on the road this season and have lost 11 straight games overall. The Vancouver Canucks are 26-8-5 at home this season and are 12-1-0 in their last 13 games overall.

This could be could be a classic “trap game” for the Canucks – that’s if the Oilers were competitive enough to challenge the Beast of the West. Vancouver will win this game easily. Take the Canucks, the Spread and the Over in this game and enjoy watching why the Canucks are by far the best team of the 2010-2011 season.

Pick: Vancouver Canucks and the Over

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