Montreal Canadiens vs Buffalo Sabres Prediction, Pick and Preview, November 22 (11/22): NHL

Montreal Canadiens vs Buffalo Sabres Prediction, Pick and Preview, November 22 (11/22): NHL

Odds

Time 7:00 p.m. EST
Canadiens money line -210
Canadiens spread -1.5 (+125)
Sabres  money line +175
Sabres spread +1.5 (-145)
Over / under 6.5

 

2021-2022 season stats

  Montreal Canadiens Buffalo Sabres
Record 7-2-1 7-3
Road / home record 2-1 3-1
Streak W3 W3
Goals per game 3.11 4.30
Goals allowed per game 2.78 2.80
Shots per game 29.5 33.6
Shots allowed per game 34.5 32.8
PP % 20.6% 23.10%
PK % 25.22% 20.80%
Over / under record 4-6 4-5-1
 

Preview

The Montreal Canadiens return home and will host the Buffalo Sabres on Friday night at the PNC Arena. These teams met three times last season and the Canes led 2-1 with both wins were at home.

 

Montreal Canadiens

The Canadiens have won their last 3 games and are 5-3 at home so far this season with a 8-6-1 record overall ranking 6th in the Atlantic division. They're coming from a 5-4 win in overtime at home against the Penguins. Mike Hoffman scored 63 seconds into overtime for the win. Nick Suzuki scored one goal and added one assist, Josh Anderson and Cole Caufield also scored for the Canadiens, who boosted their winning streak to three games. Jake Allen allowed four goals and made 19 saves.

Nick Suzuki leads the Canadiens with 10 goals, 9 total assists and has 19 points. Kirby Dach is leading the team in assists with 10.

In their last 10 games the Canadiens are 5-5, averaging 3.2 goals, 4.9 assists, 4.4 penalties and 11 penalty minutes while allowing 3.5 goals per game with an .871 save percentage.

Buffalo Sabres

The Sabres get here with a 7-3 record after beating 6-3 the Pittsburgh Penguins. Alex Tuch scored with 9:26 left, Victor Oloffson, Tage Thompson, JJ Peterka and Kyle Okposo also scored for Buffalo. Eric Comrie made 18 saves.

Rasmus Dahlin led the Sabres with 6 total assists and has 6 goals. Tage Thompson has six goals and 12 assists over the last 10 games for Buffalo.

In their last 10 games the Sabres are 7-3, averaging 4 goals, 5.8 assists, 3.1 penalties and seven penalty minutes while giving up 2.7 goals per game with an .889 save percentage.

 

BETTING TRENDS

Buffalo are 12-4 SU in their last 16 games.

Buffalo are 1-12 SU in their last 13 games against Montreal.

The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Buffalo's last 5 games on the road.

Buffalo are 0-7 SU in their last 7 games when playing on the road against Montreal.

The total has gone UNDER in 12 of Montreal's last 18 games.

Montreal are 4-1 SU in their last 5 games.

The total has gone OVER in 7 of Montreal's last 9 games against Buffalo.

Montreal are 11-2 SU in their last 13 games at home.

 

Prediction

The Sabres are having a great start of the season winning 6 of their first 8 games and have been playing great offense averaging 4.3 goals per game this season. The Canadiens have won 7 of their first 10 games this season but they have had some tough games lately as they have won their last 3 games in overtime. The Sabres have an extra day of rest and have been on fire offensively so I'll give it a shot with them to won this game. 

PICK: Sabres ML (+175) 

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