Colorado Avalanche vs St Louis Blues Prediction, Pick and Preview, May 23 (5/23): NHL

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2021-2022 season stats

Preview

The St Louis Blues and the Colorado Avalanche meet again at the Enterprise Center to play the Game 4 of the playoffs 2nd round in the West. The Avs got the win 5-2 in Game 3 to take the lead 2-1 on the series. Artturi Lehkonen scored twice and Darcy Kuemper stopped 29 shots.

Colorado Avalanche

Colorado have won 6 of their last 7 games and are 27-17 on the road. They have 62-27 overall record ranking 1st in the Central Division. The Avalanche are 21-8-4 against divisional rivals. Colorado averages 8.8 penalty minutes per game, the ninth-most in the Western Conference and have gone 53-4-4 when scoring three or more goals.

Mikko Rantanen has 36 goals and 56 assists for the Avalanche. Lehkonen has six goals over the last 10 games.

In their last 10 games the Avalanche are 7-3, averaging four goals, 6.3 assists, four penalties and 10.2 penalty minutes while giving up 2.6 goals per game.

St Louis Blues

The Blues have won 4 of their last 6 games and are 28-17 at home with a 54-37 record overall ranking 3rd in the Central division. The Blues are 22-13 against the rest of their division. St. Louis has scored 316 goals and is third in the NHL averaging 3.8 goals per game. Vladimir Tarasenko leads the team with 34.

David Perron has scored 27 goals with 30 assists for the Blues. Ryan O'Reilly has nine goals and six assists over the last 10 games.

In their last 10 games the Blues are 5-5, averaging 3.4 goals, 5.3 assists, four penalties and eight penalty minutes while giving up 2.8 goals per game.

BETTING TRENDS

Colorado are 6-1 SU in their last 7 games.

Colorado are 8-2 SU in their last 10 games against St. Louis.

The total has gone OVER in 7 of St. Louis' last 9 games against Colorado.

St. Louis are 8-4 SU in their last 12 games at home.

Prediction

The Blues couldn't keep up with the Avs offense and lost by a 3 goals difference in Game 3. Colorado have now won 8 of the last 10 head to head games but are 2-4 ATS vs Blues this season. St Louis have one of the best records ATS in the league while the Avs haven't been profitable ATS this season. I think the Blues will keep it closer this time or even win the game.

PICK: Blues +1.5 (-170)

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