Edmonton Oilers vs. St. Louis Blues Prediction, NHL Odds
St. Louis will return to home ice for the first of back-to-back games after taking their first loss of the season on Monday night in Winnipeg.
The Moneyline is essentially a pick ’em tonight on the NHL odds with the total set at 6.5.
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The Blues’ 2-0 win over Edmonton on Saturday was the fourth of their past six meetings to hit the Under, dating back to 2019. St. Louis goaltender Jordan Binnington made 23 saves to shut down the high-powered Oilers offence, while defenceman Torey Krug and Justin Faulk got their team on the board.
Edmonton’s offence has been scoring in bunches early on in the season, averaging 3.7 goals per game (7th in NHL) and putting in five or more in three of their six games so far. Their record against the Total is 3-2-1 and they are 3-3 against the spread.
St. Louis has played the Under in back-to-back games evening their record on the Total to 2-2. The Blues are tied for first in the league allowing only two goals against per game through four games.
The season series will wrap up with its third and final battle on December 15th.
Edmonton Oilers
Zach Hyman (2) opened the scoring for the Oilers in their Monday night matchup versus the Pittsburgh Penguins. Edmonton’s struggling penalty kill would let them down yet again giving up their seventh powerplay goal in their six games (74%) to even the game one apiece. The Pens took the momentum and scored two more to go up 3-1.
Despite the struggling PK, the Oilers’ powerplay has been deadly, clicking at 35 percent (2nd in NHL) and it got an opportunity early in the second that they would score on. After that Edmonton would rally with four more goals to complete the comeback, to beat the Penguins 6-3.
Leon Draisaitl leads the way with three points in the game (1G, 2A) pulling himself in a tie for second in the league with 11 points.
Edmonton will begin its first road trip of the season Wednesday, with three games in four days.
St. Louis Blues
After shutting out the Oilers on Saturday, the Blues got a taste of their own medicine on Monday night in Winnipeg taking a 4-0 loss, for their first of the season. Thomas Griess made his Blues debut and performed very well, stopping 39 of 42 shots for a .929 save percentage. St. Louis failed to muster 30 shots on goal in this game continuing the trend that began in game one. The Blues are averaging just 25 shots per game, the third lowest in the league.
Forward Brandon Saad will not be available for St. Louis tonight missing his second game in a row, with an upper-body injury as well as Pavel Buchnevich who has only played one game so far has been moved to the IR. With a banged-up forward core, the Blues were forced to ink forward Tyler Pitlick to fill some voids. Pitlick was on a tryout contract with the team, but the injuries allowed them the cap space to sign the 30-year-old winger.
Playing only four games on this season’s schedule (least in NHL) has given the Blues time to ease into the 82-game grind but their season will start to heat up now, with four games in the next five days.
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