Buffalo Sabres vs Arizona Coyotes Prediction: Don’t expect a productive game

Prediction for the NHL match which will take place on December 12. Who will turn out to be stronger? Check the team conditions! Several betting options are available.

If the Blades were just a little bit away from making the playoffs last season, we now had the right to expect further progress from them, but in reality, they look extremely modest. If, in the championship debut, they at least occasionally clung to points, things have changed recently. Blue-and-Yellow could outplay only Boston - 3:1 in the previous six meetings, and there were losses in the five remaining battles. The team sits only on the 14th line in the Eastern Conference standings.

Arizona is another eternal underdog in the league, which has not even tried to fight for the Cup Eight in recent years. Still, they have decided to create a real sensation. They started beating decent opponents in the opening period of the season. In the second half of November, they gained so much momentum that they went on a five-game winning streak, beating Vegas 2:0, Tampa Bay 3:1, Colorado 4:3, St. Louis 4:1, and then Washington 6:0. Only after this they allowed themselves to relax a bit, losing to Philadelphia and Boston - 1:4 and 3:5, respectively. Still, they retained seventh place in the Western Conference standings.

Buffalo and Arizona have been hopeless outsiders in the league all the last years. The Blades made serious progress last season, nearly making the playoffs, but now they're back on the decline, while the Coyotes have suddenly improved and now sit in the top eight of the Western Conference. They are on a roll, and in the upcoming game, they have every chance to build on their success, as they have been held scoreless only once in their last five head-to-head meetings with the Blue and Yellow.

We should not expect a high-goal-scoring activity from the upcoming confrontation. In the previous five head-to-head meetings, the opponents only managed 20 pucks together (4.00 average per game), which is a modest figure by NHL standards, and every time there was a bookmaker's total under. In addition, only once did the opponents score two pucks each against each other.