St. Louis Blues at Colorado Avalanche Betting Odds
Opening Moneyline: St. Louis +110 / Colorado -130 O/U 5.5 goals
Time: 9 PM EST Saturday March 6, 2010
Tonight in Mile High City the Colorado Avalanche hosts the streaking St. Louis Blues. Colorado is coming off a loss, but is in the 6th position in the Western Conference. While the Blues are not currently in the top 8 in the West they are moving up in the standings, as they have won 5 in a row and are only 3 points out of the 8th position in the conference.
The Avalanche are a solid team at home this season, but will be facing a Blues' squad that has a much better road record than at home, where they are 4 games below .500.
This season the Avalanche 20-9-2 at home and the Blues are 18-9-4 on the road.
Both teams played on Thursday night, but with different results, as the Blues looked impressive with a 6-1 win over the Dallas Stars while the Avalanche lost to the Phoenix Coyotes 3-1.
The Blues' offense, which only ranks 17th in the league in scoring (2.63 goals per game) has been smoking in their winning streak scoring 23 goals.
The last time the Blues lost they fell to the Avalanche 5-2 on February 8th.
Colorado G Craig Anderson (32 wins 2.43 GAA save percentage 92.3%) has started 19 straight games and has been solid this season, but in his last 4 games he is only 1-3-0 with a GAA of 2.77.
Anderson and the Colorado defense, which is giving up an average of 2.53 goals per game, has to deal with a St. Louis offense that has scored at least 4 goals in their 5-game winning streak. He stopped 32 of 34 shots in the win over St. Louis last month.
The Colorado offense is solid ranking 9th in the league in scoring (2.81 goals per game), but they are really struggling lately only scoring 3 goals in their 3 losses in their last 4 games.
Offense is not the only reason the Blues are streaking, as G Chris Mason (22 wins 2.49 GAA save percentage 91.4%) has been playing great in the Blues' streak only allowing 9 goals with a save percentage of 94.9%.
St. Louis is 4-1 in their last 5 road games, has an Over record of 5-1 in their last 6 games, and an Over record of 4-1 in their last 5 games against teams with a winning record.
Colorado is 5-1 in their last 6 home games, has an Under record of 4-1 in their last 5 games, and an Under record of 10-4 in their last 14 home games.
In the last 8 games between these 2 teams in Colorado the Under record is 5-2-1.
Our Selection : Colorado have been solid at home this year going 20-9-2. Craig Anderson (32 wins 2.43 GAA save percentage 92.3%) has started 19 straight games and has been solid this season, but in his last 4 games he is only 1-3-0 with a GAA of 2.77. The Avalanche are struggling putting the puck in the net these days, with only 3 goals in their last 4 games. The Blues have won 5 in a row and have scored 23 goals during this streak. St. Louis is 4-1 in their last 5 road games and we like them tonight to get another road win. Take St Louis +110.
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