The Ducks and Habs face off Tuesday night in a game bound to be high-scoring thanks to recent numbers from both expected netminders
The Ducks have certainly had a forgetful season but as of late they’ve started to turn things around with wins in three of their last five games. They now get to travel to the City of Saints to take on the Canadiens. This should be favourable for them as they’ve beaten the Habs in six of their last eight matchups and the Habs struggle at home with offense as they are bottom five in goals per home game. The Habs may catch a break as the Ducks also struggle on offense when on the road with the seventh-worst road scoring, only averaging 2.75 goals per game.
Momentum can make a difference and could help the Ducks as their strength during their recent stretch of games has been their goaltending with John Gibson and Lukas Dostal holding opponents to just three goals per game on average across their last six games that outranks defensive efforts from the Avalanche, Stars and Canucks during that span.
It should make for an exciting matchup for betters as opportunities to win big will be plentiful. If you want to get in on the action and enhance your viewing experience, here are our best bets for tonight’s matchup.
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Pick: Over 5.5 goals (-160)
Montreal fans haven’t seen much action this season with only six wins in their last 20 home games but when they face off against the Ducks, you can expect fireworks. These two have combined for six or more goals in seven of their last ten matchups and the biggest tell for this one should be the goaltending.
The Habs are expected to start Sam Montembeault, who has had some stellar performances with highlight reel saves but as of late his goals against average has taken a nosedive with a 3.36 average since the start of the new year that ranks second-worst in the league out of goalies that have started at least ten games during that span.
The only goalie worse is the Ducks expected starter John Gibson, who has a 3.66 goals against average since the start of the new year that more reflects his poor start to the year rather than his recent stretch of decent starts. Gibson may not start as he left Friday’s game against the Oilers with a lower-body injury. If he starts, we should see a relatively high-scoring affair that should bring the offense out of these two cold teams.