Colorado Avalanche at Arizona Coyotes - 2/27/21 NHL Picks and Prediction
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Arizona Coyotes (9-8-3) vs Colorado Avalanche (10-6-1)
Game Info: Saturday, February 27, 2021 at 9:00 pm (Gila River Arena)
Betting Odds: Arizona Coyotes +145 / Colorado Avalanche -175 --- Over/Under: 5.5 Click Here for the Latest Odds
The Colorado Avalanche and the Arizona Coyotes battle in NHL action from the Gila River Arena on Saturday night.
The Colorado Avalanche will be out to build on a 3-2 win over the Coyotes in Friday’s matchup. Nathan MacKinnon leads the Avs in scoring with 19 points coming on 4 goals and 15 assists while Mikko Rantanen’s got 16 points split between 8 goals and 8 assists. Cale Makar has 14 points with 13 assists and Nazem Kadri has 12 points with 6 goals and 6 apples. Sam Girard has 11 points with 9 assists while Brandon Saad and Joonas Donskoi each have 10 points with Saad logging 6 goals with 4 assists and Donskoi’s got 5 goals and 5 helpers this season. Philipp Grubauer’s got a 9-5 record with a pair of shutouts and a 2.01 GAA this season.
The Arizona Coyotes will look to bounce back from their defeat against the Avs on Friday night. Conor Garland has 19 points with 7 goals and 12 assists while Phil Kessel and Christian Dvorak each have 16 points with Kessel logging 8 goals with 8 assists and Dvorak posting 9 goals and 7 helpers. Jakob Chychrun has 15 points with 5 goals and 10 assists and Nick Schmaltz has 14 points with 6 goals and 8 assists and Clayton Keller has 13 points with 5 goals and 8 assists. Darcy Kuemper continues to see the majority of the work in goal for Arizona, going 6-7 with a shutout and a 2.41 GAA across 16 appearances this season.
Colorado is 19-8 in their last 27 road games and 19-7 in their last 26 games against a team with a losing record while the under is 6-1 in their last 7 games overall. Arizona is 17-41 in their last 58 games played on no rest and 7-3 in their last 10 games as a home underdog while the over is 6-1 in their last 7 Saturday games. The favorite is 8-1 in the last 9 meetings between these two teams.
I’ve gone back and forth on this game as I could genuinely see it going either way in the rematch on such a quick turnaround, but for a more comfortable pick, I’ll side with the under. Both teams were slow to really get going on Friday and I just see another situation where we don’t have a high-scoring output here. Give me the over in this one.
Chris’s Pick Over 5.5
AUTHOR: Chris Ruffolo
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