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(16-14-6) Nashville Predators vs. Carolina Hurricanes (25-7-6)
Date: Thursday January 5th
Time: 7:00 PM ET
Venue: PNC Arena, Carolina
NHL Hockey Moneyline Odds: Predators +162 Hurricanes -222 (Bet Now!)
NHL Hockey Puck Line Odds: Predators +1.5 -150 Hurricanes -1.5 +105
NHL Betting Total: O/U 6.0
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The Hurricanes are playing host to The Predators on Thursday night, unfortunately for them, the home teams now won 9 out of their last 10 games. Furthermore, they’ve dominated Nashville in PNC Arena, winning 14 out of their last 16 against them.
Nashville Predators
After sadly dropping 3 out of 4 games, The Predators took their frustrations out on Montreal in their last outing. In this game they dominated from start to finish, and finished the game with a 6-3 score.
Offensively speaking, Nashville’s getting off just 31.0 shots(19th), resulting in a unmotivating 2.7 goals(27th) per matchup.
To add to this, The Predators are lamentably scoring on just 17.9% of their powerplays.(28th)
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In the defensive zone, Nashville’s ranked terribly at 26th for shots against(33.3), and 16th for goals against(3.0).
As far as penalty killing goes, Nashville’s ranked 15th as they’re posting a worrisome 79.0 PK%.
Goaltending wise, Juuse Saros will begin the game for the road squad. Saro’s is carrying a 13-10-5 record, combined with a 2.76 GAA, and a 0.915 SV%.
Carolina Hurricanes
Shockingly, The Canes begun the season falling short of many experts expectations, although they’ve proved everyone wrong with their recent run. In this span, they shut out two different teams, and averaged over 4 goals a game as well.
In the offensive zone, The Hurricanes are averaging an elite 34.9 shots(2nd), however they’re resulting in just 3.1 goals per game.(20th)
Additionally, their powerplay efficacy is just 18.9%, which ranks poorly at 26th.
Defensively speaking, Carolina’s permitting just 2.6 goals, on 26.4 shots per matchup. Both defensive stats are ranked in the top 5, with 4th for the former, and very first for the latter.
Moreover, they’re ranked 13th while on the penalty kill, as they’re allowing opposing teams to score on 19.5% of their opportunities.
While speaking of the expected goaltender, Antti Raanta is expected to defend the home throne. He’s currently boasting a 10-2-2 record, combined with a 2.62 GAA, and a 0.897 SV% to boot.
NHL Betting Trends:
- Nashville is 4-0 SU in their last 4 games against Metropolitan Division.
- The total has gone OVER in 4 of Nashville’s last 5 Thursday games.
- Carolina is 7-1 SU in their last 8 games playing on one days rest.
- The total has gone OVER in 4 of Carolina’s last 5 games playing on one days rest.
- Nashville is 2-14 SU in their last 16 trips to Carolina.
- The total has gone UNDER in 6 of the last 9 games these teams have played in Nashville.(One push)
Free Nashville Predators vs. Carolina Hurricanes NHL Prediction
While Nashville is on a winning streak against Carolina’s division, this is a different monster they’re facing this week. Minus the last game loss to The Rangers, they’ve looked basically unbeatable. Also, The Preds have only cashed as a dog once in their last 6 games in the same position.
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In conclusion, all stats and trends strongly lean on Carolina decimating Nashville from start to finish. Unfortunately for us, there’s to much juice to pay for the moneyline, and we’re staying away from the total.
Therefore we’ve decided on taking the dog money with the -1.5 puckline favoring The Hurricanes.
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