Arizona Coyotes vs New York Islanders Prediction: The Islanders have a strong lineup

Prediction for the NHL Arizona Coyotes vs New York Islanders match, which will take place on December 17. Check the team conditions and choose several betting options.

Arizona is playing the current regular season at their usual level. Alas, it's not high enough to qualify for the playoffs, but the Coyotes haven't attempted such a task in a long time. The squad had their best stretch in November when they won four of their five games but fell apart, losing 10 of 11. Recently the situation was slightly stabilized as in their three previous meetings, they beat Boston and Philadelphia - 4:3 and 5:4, respectively. Still, San Jose lost 2:3, sitting in 14th place in the Western Conference standings.

The Islanders failed last season and missed the playoffs, which tremendous progress should have followed to avoid their former mistakes. The New York team continues to lose a lot of points. The Blue Orange had a winning streak of four or five games, but a string of defeats followed it. In their last seven meetings, the Islanders allowed five losses, four of which were in regulation time, while only Chicago and New Jersey beat them 3:0 and 6:4, respectively. Such a weak stretch dropped the Islanders to seventh place in the Eastern Conference standings.

Arizona and the Islanders are teams of entirely different classes and levels of ambition. If the Coyotes haven't solved severe problems for a long time, they live among the league outsiders; the Islanders have a powerful squad that can fight even for the Stanley Cup. The statistics of personal meetings in favor of the Blue-Orangers also show that they won five of the last seven meetings, so we need to bet on the victory of the Islanders with an odds of about 1.89.

A very modest performance characterizes the confrontation between Arizona and the Islanders. In the last eight face-to-face meetings, the opponents have only drawn 28 pucks between them (3.50 average per game), with the bookmaker's total under (88%) in seven cases during that stretch. What's more, the Coyotes and Islanders have not even traded goals in their last three games. Now, we should not expect any miracles in scoring as both teams are far from perfect, that's why we consider a total under 5.5 pucks at odds close to 1.95, and separately we can consider a bet on the total over 0.5 points by Anders Lee for 1.62.

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