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Saturday, February 18
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Ice picks: Saturday's best NHL bets
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Pittsburgh Penguins at Philadelphia Flyers (-115, 5.5)
When the Philadelphia Flyers are clicking, there aren’t many teams that can keep up with them.
Down 2-0 early in Thursday’s game against the Sabres, they flipped the switch and pumped in seven straight goals in an impressive 7-2 victory.
Claude Giroux led the attack with five assists while Scott Hartnell scored and added three helpers.
"These are the wins that bring us together," Max Talbot told reporters. "We didn't start the way we wanted to. We talked about it between the first and second, and we started to play and never looked back. It's a win that happened at the right time.”
It’s hard to know what you’re going to get from the Flyers, but you’d better believe the Penguins are going to show up for this one.
They were held to just 26 shots on goal in Wednesday’s 2-1 loss to Anaheim and that didn’t sit well with coach Dan Bylsma.
The Pens had scored 12 goals combined in the two games before that, so consider the Anaheim game a pothole.
Pick: Penguins
Minnesota Wild at St. Louis Blues (-250, 5)
The St. Louis Blues have been an under bettor’s best friend this season, checking in below the total 31 times this season.
While they’re still going to be a solid defensive club down the stretch down with Ken Hitchcock’s system, be careful with your under bets moving forward.
Andy McDonald scored his first goal of the campaign in Thursday’s 5-1 blowout of the New York Islanders and his impact is already showing just three games since returning from his concussion. David Perron is just getting going, too. He has 11 goals and 26 points in 33 games since coming back from his own concussion.
"I think it's making plays all over the ice, no matter if you start the play in the D-zone or finish plays at the net, like Andy and I did tonight," Perron told reporters Thursday night. "It's always good to get a guy like Mac back. The skills that he can bring to a team are pretty unbelievable. For myself, it's playing with guys like (T.J.) Oshie and (David Backes) that makes it good."
We may have just seen the beginning of how good this Blues team can be.
Pick: Over
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Saturday, February 18
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Ice picks: Saturday's best NHL bets
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Pittsburgh Penguins at Philadelphia Flyers (-115, 5.5)
When the Philadelphia Flyers are clicking, there aren’t many teams that can keep up with them.
Down 2-0 early in Thursday’s game against the Sabres, they flipped the switch and pumped in seven straight goals in an impressive 7-2 victory.
Claude Giroux led the attack with five assists while Scott Hartnell scored and added three helpers.
"These are the wins that bring us together," Max Talbot told reporters. "We didn't start the way we wanted to. We talked about it between the first and second, and we started to play and never looked back. It's a win that happened at the right time.”
It’s hard to know what you’re going to get from the Flyers, but you’d better believe the Penguins are going to show up for this one.
They were held to just 26 shots on goal in Wednesday’s 2-1 loss to Anaheim and that didn’t sit well with coach Dan Bylsma.
The Pens had scored 12 goals combined in the two games before that, so consider the Anaheim game a pothole.
Pick: Penguins
Minnesota Wild at St. Louis Blues (-250, 5)
The St. Louis Blues have been an under bettor’s best friend this season, checking in below the total 31 times this season.
While they’re still going to be a solid defensive club down the stretch down with Ken Hitchcock’s system, be careful with your under bets moving forward.
Andy McDonald scored his first goal of the campaign in Thursday’s 5-1 blowout of the New York Islanders and his impact is already showing just three games since returning from his concussion. David Perron is just getting going, too. He has 11 goals and 26 points in 33 games since coming back from his own concussion.
"I think it's making plays all over the ice, no matter if you start the play in the D-zone or finish plays at the net, like Andy and I did tonight," Perron told reporters Thursday night. "It's always good to get a guy like Mac back. The skills that he can bring to a team are pretty unbelievable. For myself, it's playing with guys like (T.J.) Oshie and (David Backes) that makes it good."
We may have just seen the beginning of how good this Blues team can be.
Pick: Over
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