Los Angeles Kings at Phoenix Coyotes

Feb 17, 2008 | By Stan Leung | Picks Articles Archive

Sunday, February 17, 2008
Los Angeles Kings at Phoenix Coyotes
Over 5.5

Joel Perrault, Steven Reinprecht, Peter Mueller, Radim Vrbata, Keith Ballard, and Zbynek Michalek. Who are they? Well these are the NHL hockey players that Wayne Gretzky now relies on to play at the top of their game. Despite the Coyotes hovering around the 500 mark Gretzky has this team playing hard nad tough each and every game. He might be a Jack Adams award winner by the end of the year if the team continues to play well.

These cast of NHL throwaways and misfits have gelled real well with the core of the Coyotes like Shane Doan, Nick Boynton, Ed Jovanovski and Derek Morris and since the trade for Ilya Bryzgalov the team has a good chance to make the playoffs.

They will be play one of the worst defensive teams in the league in the LA Kings as they rank 29th in the league in defense averaging 3.2 let in. Defensively the Kings rank in the bottom 5 in all defense categories like shots against and penalty kill.

Offensively the Kings have the ability top score goals but are so bad defensively that they are not a well balanced team and are dead last in the league in points.

Betting Wise: The Over/Under is 5.5 and in this game should go way over as the Kings can score in bunches but also lets in tons of goals.

Take the over in this game is a wild shootout.
 

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