BUF Sabres vs VAN Canucks Prediction: Betting on the guests

Prediction for the NHL match which will take place on January 14. Who will turn out to be stronger? Check the team conditions! Several betting options are available.

Buffalo is disappointing in the current regular season. The young and ambitious team was close to making the playoffs last season, but they were short of the main goal at that time. now, the Blades should have been expected to make further progress. In reality, things turned out differently. From the very first games, they began to lose a lot of points, and because of that, the gap from cup eight got bigger and bigger. Only by January, they started to improve. They have four wins in the last six meetings, losing only to Ottawa and Seattle - 1:5 and 2:5, respectively. That's good enough to sit in 14th position in the Eastern Conference standings.

A year earlier, the Canucks performed poorly and, therefore, quickly dropped out of the fight for cup spots. They've been picking up points since the start of the season, and they've kept up the pace so far. In the last 16 meetings, they have been held scoreless only twice, lost a couple of times outside of regulation time, and in 12 cases, they have been victorious. Moreover, in the previous four games, they had beaten New Jersey 6:4, the Rangers 6:3, the Islanders 5:2, and Pittsburgh 4:3 the day before. This spurt allowed the Blue and Green to maintain second place in the Western Conference standings.

Buffalo and Vancouver have very different ways of conducting the current regular season. If the Blades go in the group of outsiders of the Eastern Conference, the Canucks are one point away from the leader of the Western Conference. The Canadian squad continues its long-term tour of the East, but they have played all four of their previous games and had a day off the day before, so there should be no problems with their physical condition. They are in no condition to stop the opponent, so the Blue-Green are the favorites of the meeting.

The confrontation between Buffalo and Vancouver has been entertaining and productive recently. In the previous eight head-to-head meetings, the teams scored 61 pucks (7.63 per game on average). The Canadiens are also having fun on their Eastern Conference road trip, with 33 shots on goal (8.25 average per game) in the previous four games, including 21 goals by the Canadiens (5.25 average per game).