Edmonton’s Connor McDavid has seven goals in his last eight games versus Vancouver and is due for his second goal of the playoffs.
Friday ends off the week with a pair of exciting Stanley Cup playoff matchups with the Panthers traveling north to Massachusetts as they take on the Bruins in Game three with the series tied at one a piece while the Oilers look to respond after a resounding come back from the Canucks in their series opening game on Wednesday.
It should be an exciting night of hockey and should prove to be profitable as we are due for a big night with Thursday ending as another 2-3 day for the picks like Wednesday. We are due to get hot and have some very confident picks to end off the week.
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Bet: Panthers ML (-125)
The Panthers responded to the Bruins blowout win on the road with a blowout win of their own with a dominant 6-1 victory to even the series.
This series will seemingly rely heavily on momentum as the Bruins rode their big Game seven win over Toronto into Game one where they caught the Panthers flatfooted before they caught themselves and took back the series driver seat in Game two.
An upset feels on the horizion as the Cats have been known to get on rolls like their quick three wins over the Tampa Bay Lightning in the first round before dumping them in five games.
They should continue to respond to their bad Game one loss by not taking their foot off the gas and filling Swayman's net once again.
We had spoken about Swayman's struggled versus Florida throughout his career and how Game one was an outlier with Game two showing the young netminder's numbers regressing to the mean, which is a goals against average of 3.69 and a save percentage of .875 against the Panthers in his career.
Media outlets may run with the stat that the Bruins won all four of their regular season matchups versus Florida including two tight victories at the Garden.
The Panthers won three of their four playoff games in Boston last postseason and should ride the hot hand and take a surpising series lead that will put the opening loss in the rear view mirror.
Bet: Oilers Canucks Over 6.0 goals (-125), Connor McDavid anytime goal (+)
The Canucks had Rogers Arena rocking with four unanswered goals to help complete the comeback and take the early series lead. We predicted a high-scoring affair and one that the Oilers would win and although they fell short of taking Game one, they will surely return with fresh legs and more offense.
Over the past three seasons, no two forwards have dominated the playoffs like Edmonton's Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl with the two combining for 44 goals in just 34 games.
McDavid has become one of the league's best playmakers with over 100 assists this season and has 12 so far this postseason in just six games.
He is setting up two goals per game on average which should give us confidence that Edmonton should hold up their end of the bargain when it comes to the Over in goals.
He also has scored just once so far this postseason and has been a scoring threat in the past versus Vancouver with seven goals over their last eight matchups.
You can count on the Canucks as well as they'll be very lively in this game thanks to an Oilers team that can be weak defensively on the road as they finished a season with a 3.17 goals against average on the road that ranked worse than teams like Sabres, Wild and Kraken.
When they play at home it is a very different story and Vancouver will want to get to them when they have thee advantage of the game's setting.