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Tuesday, December 29
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Ice picks: Today's best NHL bets
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Montreal Canadiens at Ottawa Senators (-145, 5.5)
Ottawa backers have to wonder where the goal production is going to be coming from over the next few weeks. The Senators learned on Saturday that their captain and leading scorer Daniel Alfredsson will miss the next four to six weeks because of a separated shoulder.
Alfredsson joins No. 1 center Jason Spezza on the injury report. Spezza has been out the last few weeks and isn’t expected to rejoin the club for at least another month or so because of a knee injury.
“It’s very disappointing,” Sens coach Cory Clouston told the Ottawa Citizen. “It’s compounded when you lose Spezza and (Nick) Foligno, as well, so it’s not just one guy.
“We just need guys to step up. We need guys to pick up those minutes and play hard.”
Seems like a bad time to face a hot team like the Habs.
Pick: Under
Minnesota Wild at Los Angeles Kings (-140, 5.5)
The Sens aren’t the only ones with injury woes. The Kings got Ryan Smyth back but lost play-making winger Justin Williams in the same game.
Williams and Smyth were excited to be united on Anze Kopitar’s line but Williams didn’t last more than two shifts before going down with a broken leg off a clean hit by Coyotes defenseman Ed Jovanovski.
“When (Williams) was coming in front of the bench on the stretcher, pulling his hair, he was hurting,” Kings coach Terry Murray told the Los Angeles Times. “He was hurting a lot.”
The Kings ended up losing to the Coyotes but afterwards in the locker room the talk centered on their fallen player.
“We were pretty hyped up and Smitty was happy to get him back,” Kopitar told reporters. “And a thing like that happens. It’s never good.”
Meanwhile, the Wild are in high spirits coming into Monday’s game fresh off two wins in a row.
Pick: Minnesota
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Tuesday, December 29
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Ice picks: Today's best NHL bets
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Montreal Canadiens at Ottawa Senators (-145, 5.5)
Ottawa backers have to wonder where the goal production is going to be coming from over the next few weeks. The Senators learned on Saturday that their captain and leading scorer Daniel Alfredsson will miss the next four to six weeks because of a separated shoulder.
Alfredsson joins No. 1 center Jason Spezza on the injury report. Spezza has been out the last few weeks and isn’t expected to rejoin the club for at least another month or so because of a knee injury.
“It’s very disappointing,” Sens coach Cory Clouston told the Ottawa Citizen. “It’s compounded when you lose Spezza and (Nick) Foligno, as well, so it’s not just one guy.
“We just need guys to step up. We need guys to pick up those minutes and play hard.”
Seems like a bad time to face a hot team like the Habs.
Pick: Under
Minnesota Wild at Los Angeles Kings (-140, 5.5)
The Sens aren’t the only ones with injury woes. The Kings got Ryan Smyth back but lost play-making winger Justin Williams in the same game.
Williams and Smyth were excited to be united on Anze Kopitar’s line but Williams didn’t last more than two shifts before going down with a broken leg off a clean hit by Coyotes defenseman Ed Jovanovski.
“When (Williams) was coming in front of the bench on the stretcher, pulling his hair, he was hurting,” Kings coach Terry Murray told the Los Angeles Times. “He was hurting a lot.”
The Kings ended up losing to the Coyotes but afterwards in the locker room the talk centered on their fallen player.
“We were pretty hyped up and Smitty was happy to get him back,” Kopitar told reporters. “And a thing like that happens. It’s never good.”
Meanwhile, the Wild are in high spirits coming into Monday’s game fresh off two wins in a row.
Pick: Minnesota
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