BUF Sabres vs DET Red Wings Prediction: Expect a productive encounter

Prediction for the NHL match which will take place on March 13. Who will turn out to be stronger? Check the team conditions! Several betting options are available.

The current regular season is going poorly for Buffalo. The Blades seriously do not expect to make the playoffs, although a year ago they stopped just one point away from getting into the cup eight. Instead of making further progress, they have slowed down considerably, and therefore lost any realistic chance of making the top-8 a long time ago. In the final days of the draft period, the club sent Casey Mittelstadt to Colorado and got Bowen Byram in return, while veterans Erik Johnson and Kyle Okposo also left the Yellow and Blue. They have won only once in their last four games, leaving them in 12th place in the Eastern Conference standings.

Detroit is another team that performed well last season, but the Red-Whites lacked the smallest of things to make it to the playoffs. They performed noticeably better in the current regular season, and therefore were comfortably inside the cup eight, and now their game has completely fallen apart. At the end of February they were on a great run, winning six games in a row, and then overnight they started to play completely differently. In the five previous battles in March, the Wings had alternately lost to the Islanders 3:5, Florida 0:4, Colorado 2:7, Arizona 0:4, and the day before to Vegas 3:5. Detroit now sits only ninth in the Eastern Conference standings.

Detroit is having an amazing regular season, alternating ups and downs. In the second half of February, they gave away a 6-match winning streak, after which there was full confidence that the Wings would definitely make the playoffs, but they had not picked up a single point in five previous battles in March. Obviously, it's time for the Red and White to break the losing streak before the train has gone too far. The Blades have been playing pretty well lately, but they are well outside the top eight, so they have no real tournament motivation, which the visitors should take advantage of.

The confrontation between Buffalo and Detroit has recently been characterised by incredibly solid goaltending. In the previous five head-to-head meetings, the rivals have combined to score 50 pucks (10.00 per game on average). Of course, in all five cases, the bookmaker's total over was reached. In addition, in all five battles, the Blades and Wings scored at least three pucks each.