Chicago Blackhawks vs Boston Bruins Prediction: The Bears are doing great defensively

Prediction for the NHL Chicago Blackhawks vs Boston Bruins match, which will take place on March 15. Check the team conditions and choose several betting options.

It's hard to look at Chicago this season without tears. If in all previous years, the Hawks at least tried to show decent results, then last offseason, they said goodbye to several important players and went into a deep rebuild. An important step in that process was removing the club legend Patrick Kane, who recently moved to the Rangers. Under him, the Red and Black had their last good stretch, unexpectedly winning five games in a row, but in the next eight games, there was only one win over Ottawa, 5:0. Chicago now sits in penultimate place in the Western Conference standings.

Boston, on the other hand, is having a phenomenal regular season. The Bears had trouble making the playoffs a year ago, but now they're the first in the league to make the Cup battles. Moreover, they'll officially win the President's Trophy very soon and do so early. After 65 games, the Black-and-Yellow team leads their nearest pursuer by 11 points, but at the same time, does not think to slow down. In the last 13 meetings, the team had 11 wins and two losses to Edmonton and Detroit - 2:3 and 3:5, respectively.

Chicago currently shares last place in the Western Conference standings with San Jose. Boston is the current regular season's best team in the league, which is already 11 points ahead of the nearest pursuer. This information alone makes the Bears the unconditional favorites for the upcoming game. What's more, the Hawks are in terrible shape, having lost seven of their last eight games, which Jim Montgomery's team should take advantage of. We can bet on Boston's victory with a handicap (-2.5).

Chicago has played extremely hard against Boston lately. In the four previous head-to-head encounters, the Hawks have not won a single game while creating very little offensively. That effort was only good enough for six field goal attempts (1.50 goals per game average) during that stretch. Now the Bears have a great defense, and they can do a lot, so the team of Luke Richardson will be tough to break down the defensive structures of the best team in the league. On this basis, the best option for the prediction seems to be an individual total of Chicago under 1.5 pucks, and separately it is worth betting on the total over 0.5 points of Dmitry Orlov.