Detroit Red Wings vs Columbus Blue Jackets Prediction: Don’t expect a high-productive match

Prediction for the NHL Detroit Red Wings vs Columbus Blue Jackets match, which will take place on January 15. Check the team conditions and choose several betting options.

Detroit is still a young team with a lot of talent, but it's hard for them to produce good results consistently. Still, the Red Wings try to fight for points in nearly every game, and they often manage to get a positive result. The team suffered three straight losses in regulation time in early January. In the next two meetings, the Red and White beat Winnipeg and Toronto 7:5 and 4:1, respectively. These wins allowed Detroit to reach a tenth place in the Eastern Conference standings.

Columbus is another team that has been in a rebuilding phase for more than a year. Last season it seemed like the Jackets were moving in the right direction and would be making significant progress very soon, but things turned out to be different. The second season under Brad Larsen didn't go well for the Jackets, and they looked perfect at the beginning of the regular season, but then they fell apart and became hopeless underdogs. In their last 14 meetings, the Dark Blues have only two wins and 12 losses, relegating them to last place in the Eastern Conference standings.

Detroit and Columbus have long been neighbors in the Eastern Conference standings, but the picture has begun to change in the current regular season. While the Jackets remain the league's hopeless underdogs, the Red Wings are making decisive moves to reach a new level by intervening in the playoff battle. As a result, we have to bet on Detroit's victory with a handicap (-1.5) at odds of about 2.05.

The upcoming game will hardly be a high-scoring affair. That's according to the statistics, which show that in the last six meetings with Detroit, the bookmaker's total over has been reached only once. Now we expect the same thing, so the optimal way to predict the total under 6.5 pucks at odds close to 1.65, and separately we should pay attention to the bet on the total over 0.5 points of Moritz Seider for 2.3.

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