4/17 nhl habs @ caps 7 pm est ver

[hurricane]

Montreal Canadiens Vs. Washington Capitals

- The fans at Verizon Center will be treated to a game between the Montreal Canadiens and the Washington Capitals when they take their seats on Saturday.

Oddsmakers currently have the Capitals listed as 350-moneyline favorites versus the Canadiens, while the game's total is sitting at 6.

Tomas Plekanec scored with 6:41 remaining in overtime to give the Canadiens a 3-2 win over the Capitals in Game 1 of their best-of-seven Eastern Conference first-round playoff series on Thursday. The Canadiens won that game as +260 underdogs, while the five goals went UNDER the posted over/under (6).

Michael Cammalleri and Scott Gomez had the other Canadiens goals in regulation. Jaroslav Halak stopped 45 shots for the win.

Joe Corvo and Nicklas Backstrom replied for the Capitals, while Jose Theodore turned away 35 shots in a losing effort.

Team records:
Montreal: 39-33-10
Washington: 54-15-13
Montreal most recently:
When playing on Saturday are 5-5
Before playing Washington are 4-6
After playing Washington are 3-7
After a win are 6-4

Washington most recently:
When playing on Saturday are 7-3
Before playing Calgary are 4-6
After playing Montreal are 4-6
After a loss are 5-5
A few trends to consider:
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Montreal's last 7 games on the road
The total has gone UNDER in 9 of Montreal's last 13 games
Montreal is 4-8 SU in its last 12 games
Montreal is 2-4 SU in its last 6 games on the road
Washington is 18-6 SU in its last 24 games at home
Washington is 5-2 SU in its last 7 games
The total has gone OVER in 10 of Washington's last 15 games at home
Washington is 4-2 SU in its last 6 games when playing at home against Montreal
Next up:
Washington at Montreal, Monday, April 19

 

[redshirt27se]

caps should take it, but i smell a first round choke by them.

 

[water buffalo]

Ovechkin tonight

 

[SLAYER69!]

I'll take a piece of those odds

 

[jesse_01]

wow this is quite the game

 

[jesse_01]

goals, fights, hits

 

[redshirt27se]

habs had it.. then blew it.

 

[redshirt27se]

caps should take it, but i smell a first round choke by them.

based on 2 games... the choke prediction stands. caps aren't that tough.

 

[hurricane]

based on 2 games... the choke prediction stands. caps aren't that tough.

i agree .. taking the caps with those odds is a terrible bet.they dont deserve to be favored liked that

mont shit the bed here

 

[jesse_01]

Thing with caps though they can score goals. Habs don't have the strongest goalie neither do the caps. I wouldn't be surprised if the rest of the games are high score games.

Its going to come down to who can score the most goals and whose goalie isn't stinking it up to much.