Rick Tocchet’s unit has suffered three consecutive defeats after what had been an impressive run. Seattle is sputtering a bit as it heads into the postseason, although they battered the Arizona Coyotes at home on Monday.

The NHL odds only have the Kraken as a mild -115 favourite on the moneyline (+202 on the puckline), with the total established at 6.5.

Kraken vs. Canucks NHL Betting Odds

Goals, goals, and more goals. That’s been the motto of contests involving these sides so far in 2022-2023. The B.C.-based team raced out to a 2-0 series lead with 5-4 October and 6-5 in December victories before Seattle got back on track with a 6-1 victory of their own back in January. The over feels like a safe bet here.

Dave Hakstol’s unit has been bitten by the inconsistency bug. They are currently on a run of nine games during which the results alternate between wins and losses. Unfortunately, most of the losses were handed to them by fellow playoff competitors and many of the wins came from playing clubs they should defeat anyways. For a team that scores as much as they do, the over has only earned the spoils five times in the last 10 games.

Vancouver was piping hot right up until the middle of last week when they fell to the St. Louis Blues. Since then they’ve lost twice more. During their successful mini-run (five wins in six), goaltending had stepped up but has since reverted back to its old habits. The Canucks have conceded at least four goals in all three defeats.

Seattle Kraken

Unless a few teams stumble over the course of the regular season’s final week and a half, the Kraken will mostly likely be a seventh seed. What matters now is finding consistency, and one was to start that operation is by disintegrating an opponent.

The Kraken played host to the Coyotes on Monday, and they were not the least bit gracious. Special teams were indeed special in the opening 20 minutes, as Jordan Eberle (17^th) opened the scoring on the power play and Jared McCann (36^th) netted a slick wrist shot whilst on the penalty kill. If Arizona’s early second period goal to halve the deficit was supposed to spook the Kraken, it didn’t work. The hosts went back to work with Carson Soucy (third) and MCann (37^th) earning his second of the game. Things only got worse from there for the Coyotes, who played the third period like a club that just wanted the game to end. Four more Kraken goals, including two in the final two minutes to really pour it on, led to an 8-1 thumping.

Vancouver Canucks

Old habits die hard, and the past weekend exposed one of Vancouver’s more frustrating deficiencies: its inability to make good on strong starts. After coming out flying against the Flames on Friday yet still losing, a similar fate awaited them Sunday at home to the Kings.

Brock Boeser (17^th) was in the right place at the right time six minutes into the first period, as he pounced on a rebound despite having a defenceman all over him. Rather than set the tone, all the goal did was wake a dormant Los Angeles team that remembered it had wins to earn in the chase for first place in the Pacific. Some great passing around the Vancouver net allowed Alex Iafallo (13^th) to tie the game with a one-timer and from there the Kings took over. Consider that the Canucks had 13 shots entering the second period yet finished with 25. It was a complete shutdown performance once Vancouver scored, as they fell 4-1.

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