NHL Wagering

Mar 05, 2008 | By Stan Leung | Picks Articles Archive

NHL Wagering

St. Louis Blues (+210) vs. Detroit Red Wings (-250)
Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 7:30 PM Eastern
Over 5
Bet this game at Bet Jamaica

If you look at the stats all NHL betting statistics, they point to another Under g ame between these two Western Conference teams. St. Louis has gone Under in 5 of their last five games and have gone Under in 4 of their last 5 games on the road. Head to head with the Red Wings 7 of the last 9 games have gone Under. So the natural NHL betting pick you figure is to bet Under right? Well no, tonight their game will go Over. Bet Jamacia has this NHL betting game's Over/Under at 5.5

This is a Murphy’s Law game where the Under can not go on forever. You have to dig into the stats and you will find that St Louis’s Over record is 7-1 in their last 8 vs. Central Division teams.

Evan Red Wings Goalie Dominik Hasek, thinks hey are not scoring as much as they should as he states, "We weren't playing bad, we just couldn't score the goals”. Even though Detroit has been Under in most of those game lately their Over record is 4-1 in Red Wings last 5 vs. a team with a losing record, Over is 9-4 in Red Wings last 13 games as a home favorite of -201 or greater, and Over is 9-4 in Red Wings last 13 games as a favorite of -201 or greater.

Detroit just has too talented a team not to score a lot of goals. Niklas Kronwall, Valtteri Filppula, Pavel Datsyuk Henrik Zetterberg, and Mikael Samuelsson have all stared to play well and tonight they will score again on a very weak defensive team. The Blues’s have the weapons to score as well with Andy McDonald, Keith Tkachuk, Martin Rucinsky and Paul Kariya about to break out.

Bottom Line: With the Over/Under set at 5 at most sportsbooks, the online betting sites are going by stats and setting the line too low for tonight so that NHL bettors wont all bet on the Under. Bet the Over tonight at you can never keep the Detroit forwards off the score sheet forever. Don’t go by the trends in tonight game.

Two Unders make an Over in tonight's game

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A few trends to not to consider:

The total has gone UNDER in 5 of St. Louis's last 5 games
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of St. Louis's last 5 games on the road
The total has gone UNDER in 7 of St. Louis's last 9 games when playing on the road against Detroit
The total has gone UNDER in 14 of St. Louis's last 19 games when playing Detroit
The total has gone UNDER in 7 of Detroit's last 9 games when playing at home against St. Louis
Detroit is 18-6 SU in its last 24 games when playing at home against St. Louis
The total has gone UNDER in 14 of Detroit's last 19 games when playing St. Louis
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Detroit's last 7 games

NHL Wagering

NHL Wagering

Two Unders make an Over in tonight's game

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