The NHL definitely has parity, and on any given night any team can win. But there are indeed trends and stats and other variables that make picking a winner less of a gamble.
I will try and give you a few of the reasons in a short analysis on the games that I feel are worth looking at. This is the first article of its kind because I like to get a feel for what is going on in the NHL over the first quarter or so before I start riding teams, and get a feel for which direction a team is going and which teams they can beat while finding some value out there.
Toronto -115 @ Carolina -105
Carolina and Toronto are both basement dwellers at this point, but Carolina is one of the teams Toronto has beaten this year. Jonas Gustavsson is starting tonight for the Leafs, and with the battle between the two goalies for the starting job, will bring his best game.
The teams have split the last four ga ...
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Article written by Louis Pisano