Detroit Red Wings VS Florida Panthers maybe thanks to the NHL, but it was a 6-game point streak and 5 victories that led the Panthers (4th in Atlantic Division) to Detroit, where Red Wings (7th in Atlantic) will be waiting to secure their 3rd victory in the last 12 matches.
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Detroit Red Wings VS Florida Panthers Preview NHL Regular Season
- Venue: Little Caesars Arena, Detroit
- Date: Monday, March 20th, 2023
- Time: 16:00 GMT
- Teams to play: Red Wings and Panthers
- NHL Picks: SPREAD -1.5
Odds as provided by 1XBet and BetMGM.
Betting On The Detroit Red Wings
Season Record: 30-29-9
- 1XBet Spread: +1.5
- 1XBet Total: Over 6.5
- 1XBet Moneyline: 3.24
- BetMGM Spread: +1.5
- BetMGM Total: Under 6.5
- BetMGM Moneyline: 2.55
The Detroit Red Wings lost for the second consecutive time, for the third match in their past four games (1-3-0) and for the ninth time in their last 11 (2-8-1) after a 5-1 loss to the Colorado Avalanche on their home ice on Saturday.
Pius Suter (12 goals, 20 points this year) delivered a tie at 1-1 at 6:55 of the opening minutes, before Colorado scored two markers in the following two periods, plus a power-play strike and a shorty.
The Red Wings who forfeited a league-high 12 short-handed tallies this season, now place nine points behind the Pittsburgh Penguins for the 2nd Wild Card spot of the Eastern Conference, with one game in hand.
Goaltender Ville Husso (25-18-6 this season, with a 2.97 GAA and a. 901 save percentage) conceded five goals on 21 shots in 45:16 of play on Saturday before being replaced with Magnus Hellberg (3-7-1 on the season with a 3.04 GAA and a .917 save percentage), who turned aside two shots.
Hellberg has never played the Panthers before, while Husso has already posted a 0-1-1 career total against them with a 3.04 GAA and a .917 save percentage. The Red Wings are 10th in the least goals netted per game in 2022 -23 (2.93), 15th in most goals allowed on average (3.25), 18th in power play (20.9%) and 19th in penalty kill (78.2%).
Betting On The Florida Panthers
Season Record: 35-27-7
- 1XBet Spread: -1.5
- 1XBet Total: Under 6.5
- 1XBet Moneyline: 1.99
- BetMGM Spread: -1.5
- BetMGM Total: Over 6.5
- BetMGM Moneyline: 1.53
The Florida Panthers got their second straight victory after extending their present point run to six outings (5-0-1) after a 4-2 win against the New Jersey Devils at FA Live Arena last Saturday.
Florida gave up two snipes in the second period to go 2-0 down before burying four unanswered markers in the last frame, plus three in a span of 2:30 to take a 3-2 lead ahead of an empty-netter 21 seconds from time. Sam Reinhart (26 goals, 51 points this year) tallied twice for the Panthers, now trailing the Pittsburgh Penguins for the 2nd Wild Card spot in the Eastern Conference by a single point.
Goaltender Sergei Bobrovsky dispelled 33 shots last Saturday, registering a 23-17-3 total for the season with a 3.00 GAA and a .904 save percentage. He picked up a 23-6-1 past record against Detroit with a 1.87 GAA and a .938 save percentage. Alex Lyon on the other hand (3-2-1 on the season with a 3.89 GAA and a .892 save percentage) is historically 0-0-1 against the Red Wings. Lyon has a 1.73 GAA and a .917 save percentage.
The Panthers are 4th in most goals scored per game this campaign (3.48), 10th in most goals forfeited on average (3.36), 13th in power play (22.2%) and 27th in penalty kill (74.2%).
MatchPlug Prediction
On the records, the Red Wings may stand a chance to reach the Stanley Cup Playoffs this season, trailing behind the 2nd-Wild Card seed, the Pittsburgh Penguins by nine points with a game in hand.
However, the points, in reality, are completely different. The Red Wings dropped 9 out of its 11 decisions, losing by a margin of two tallies in 6 of them.
The Florida Panthers are presently riding a four-game winning streak against opponents in the Eastern Conference, and are 12-5-1 in their most recent 18 fixtures, winning by over one strike in 7 of them.
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