Buffalo Sabres vs Ottawa Senators Prediction: Don’t expect a lot of pucks

Prediction for the NHL Buffalo Sabres vs Ottawa Senators match, which will take place on April 14. Check the team conditions and choose several betting options.

Buffalo has a lot to be commended for this regular season. In recent years, we've grown accustomed to the Blades playing the role of the league's hopeless underdog every year and not getting involved in Cup contention, but now the picture has changed. Since the beginning of the season, the Yellow-Blue actively began to cling to points, and at times they even gave a long winning streak. Moreover, in their last ten games, the team has won seven games and lost three times, which can be considered an excellent indicator. However, they still have no real shot at the playoffs, sitting in tenth place in the Eastern Conference standings.

Ottawa is another team that has made serious progress this season. This should not come as a surprise, as they have been rebuilding for the last few years, which is now nearing completion, and therefore the results have expectedly improved. The Senators could even seriously contend for the playoffs now, but they had a bad stretch in the first third of April, losing four straight games, which proved fatal. In their last two meetings, they beat Tampa Bay and Carolina 7:4 and 3:2, respectively, but that's good enough for only 11th place in the Eastern Conference standings.

Buffalo and Ottawa are neighbors in the Eastern Conference standings, who had an excellent regular season by their standards but still failed to qualify for the playoffs. The Blades should have a better chance of winning this game. The upcoming game will be the last home game of the season, and they'll try to please their home crowd with a good result. The Senators, meanwhile, play very poorly on the road, having allowed eight losses in their previous nine meetings. The hosts should use this, so it is necessary to bet on the victory of Buffalo in the match.

We should not expect the upcoming confrontation between the neighbors in the Eastern Conference standings to be rich in goals. Buffalo and Ottawa traditionally play together in a boring and unproductive way. In their six previous head-to-head encounters, the opponents only combined for 27 goals (4.50 goals-against average). Now the Blades need to win, and the Senators do not need anything at all, so the best option for the prediction seems to be a total under 6.5 pucks, and separately it is worth betting that Each team will score more than 1.5 pucks - No.