Can Edmonton Stay Hot and Cover the Spread Against Dallas?
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The NHL schedule does feel like a roller coaster. Wednesday night features just four games and only one with direct Canadian interest.
This smaller slate allows us to approach tonight’s NHL betting with a bit more of a relaxed tact. Let us begin.
Edmonton Oilers come in hot on Wednesday night
The game on Wednesday night takes on more importance for the Edmonton Oilers as they entertain the Dallas Stars.
This has a ton of playoff implications for several teams. For Edmonton, a win keeps it four points ahead of Los Angeles for second in the Pacific Division.
This is one of Edmonton’s two games in hand on Los Angeles. Games in hand are great but a team must take advantage of them.
The concern with the Oilers on Wednesday night is coming in on several days of rest. They are playing a Dallas team that needs points in the worst way. Dallas is battling for its playoff life despite being three points behind Edmonton in the conference standings.
Does Edmonton have the luxury of having an extra point to play with? Yes, because Vancouver lost in a shootout to Ottawa at home on Tuesday. Vancouver’s schedule gets tougher the rest of the week with road dates in Minnesota and Calgary.
The Oilers are around a 1.6-1.65 favourite for tonight against the Stars. This is not too bad of a spread, considering Edmonton is 14-3-2 in its previous 19 games.Again, Dallas is a .500 team on the road and is just not quite as good away from Dallas. There is a tiny bit of value with the Edmonton moneyline. Even the puckline laying around 2.55 has some possibilities as well.
This is where it gets interesting. Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl have been a little cold over their past four games. McDavid has just two assists and no goals during this span. Both are good anytime goal props just waiting to happen at plus-money.
The shorter slate and the 6.5 Over give us some pause. Does it swing back to 6? It’s a great question when the safer plays are on the Edmonton side as Dallas seems to struggle in this spot over and again.
The end of the Winnipeg Jets
When betting on sports, it is fun to be enamored by numbers. One of the best ones was right before Paul Maurice walked away from the Winnipeg Jets. At that time, Winnipeg, according to Canadian sports bettors, was at its highest point to make the playoffs.
A month ago, Winnipeg had a 25% chance of making the playoffs, according to SportsClubStats. Now, that number is pretty much zero. We will call it zero and here’s why.
With a third straight loss on Tuesday night, Winnipeg still stands at 81 points. It has five games left. If it were to somehow win all five, the Jets would end up with 91 points in all.
Their ROW (Regulation + Overtime Wins) would total 38. Their overall win total would be 40. Now, this is where all the problems in math start.
Winnipeg without Mark Scheifele did not look the same as Kyle Connor, and Nikolaj Ehlers could not solve Igor Shesterkin at Madison Square Garden on Tuesday night.
The Rangers, once they went up 1-0, looked like they had a five or six-goal cushion. Winnipeg had no answers and when it had chances, the Jets just could not finish.
Finally, this latest 10-game stretch was Winnipeg’s ultimate downfall. It went 3-6-1 with those three losses in a row.
Things do not get any easier either as Winnipeg heads to Carolina on Thursday and then entertains Colorado on Sunday. Basically, the Jets are done in terms of making the playoffs.
As soon as Dallas picks up a point in any way or Winnipeg does not, it is over. Some would argue that the finale came for Winnipeg when Maurice left. He saw the writing on the wall that the team did not.
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