Well as you probably all know, all eyes will be watching the NHL game Vancouver @ Minnesota this afternoon so why don't we take a look at it.
Vancouver is playing a 4th road game in 6 days so the fatigue factor should be quite a factor here.
They have totaled six goals in the sequence, and have 12 in their last seven road games. That's not a lot of offense indeed.
"Maybe right now we're too concerned with defense and maybe we've lost our edge on offense," captain Markus Naslund said. "We've also played some good teams, but we need more from the whole team."
What I see here is a team that will try to open the ice a little bit and.. BOOM! It will just go against them as the Wild are coming off a 2 days rest and they tend to do extremely good defensively in this situation at home. A bad point for the Wild though is that they're coming of a very lucky road win in Boston against whom they allowed 56 SOGs. Not sure Lemaire liked that stat... I'm pretty sure he talked to his players about it and I don't see that happen again today.
A good spot for the Minnesota Wild in this fine Sunday afternoon so I'll go with this:
0.5* Minnesota -0.5 +130
0.5* Minnesota PK -110
Good luck today
Vancouver is playing a 4th road game in 6 days so the fatigue factor should be quite a factor here.
They have totaled six goals in the sequence, and have 12 in their last seven road games. That's not a lot of offense indeed.
"Maybe right now we're too concerned with defense and maybe we've lost our edge on offense," captain Markus Naslund said. "We've also played some good teams, but we need more from the whole team."
What I see here is a team that will try to open the ice a little bit and.. BOOM! It will just go against them as the Wild are coming off a 2 days rest and they tend to do extremely good defensively in this situation at home. A bad point for the Wild though is that they're coming of a very lucky road win in Boston against whom they allowed 56 SOGs. Not sure Lemaire liked that stat... I'm pretty sure he talked to his players about it and I don't see that happen again today.
A good spot for the Minnesota Wild in this fine Sunday afternoon so I'll go with this:
0.5* Minnesota -0.5 +130
0.5* Minnesota PK -110
Good luck today