Edmonton vs Vancouver: The Oilers to beat their opponent

Last season, Edmonton defeated Vancouver in six of their ten head-to-head encounters. Will the Canucks be able to improve on that statistic in their next head-to-head encounter? We predict that the Oilers will be stronger again!

Edmonton are a team for which the strongest hockey player on the planet plays the following season, but they still can’t win any trophies. The Oilers are making another attempt to clinch the Stanley Cup, and all the players insist they are motivated to reach their goal. In addition, No. 97 is ready to go to pieces, demonstrating more quality hockey than ever before. Edmonton management tried to bolster the roster in the offseason, signing Duncan Keith, Cody Ceci, Zach Hyman, and Ilya Konovalov. They played seven games in the pre-season with five wins and two losses.

Vancouver are a young and promising team that is gradually gaining experience to interfere in the fight for high places in the foreseeable future. Yes, they fell just short of making the playoffs last season, but that’s not the outcome anyone was hoping for. In addition, they got hit with a coronavirus at precisely the wrong time, which made life as difficult as possible. The Canucks tried to add experience to their roster in the offseason, signing big names like Oliver Ekman-Larsson, Conor Garland, and Luke Schenn. Among the losses are Braden Holtby, Alexander Edler, and Jimmy Vesey. They played seven games in pre-season, suffering five defeats and two wins.

Edmonton and Vancouver are two teams that have been trying to progress from being perennially young and promising teams to become Stanley Cup contenders in recent years. The Oilers, who have the best player in the world, another top-level hockey player, and many experienced and quality players signed in the offseason, are much closer to that goal. It’s a little too early for the Canucks to compete with such an experienced opponent. In addition, they lost both of their pre-season fixtures. As a result, we have to place our money on Edmonton’s victory for 1.77.

Edmonton and Vancouver are teams that play in the same conference and the same division. The fact that they are direct competitors for any given tournament is unlikely, but they have already played 12 head-to-head games in 2021, ten of which took place in the last regular season and two more in the pre-season. There is no doubt that the opponents studied each other to the maximum, so we should not expect a goal extravaganza even now, and the best option for the prediction seems to be Total Under 6.5 pucks for 2.10.

Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl combined for 189 points (46 goals + 125 assists) in the last regular season, far ahead of everyone else as the league’s leading scorers. Yes, they fell in the playoffs next, but they left their mark on history. It’s unlikely that in the upcoming game, Vancouver will play against them as tightly as the Winnipeg players did in the last Stanley Cup, so again we should expect a goal extravaganza from these guys. If it is even boring to bet on the Canadian, the German is quite possible, so it is worth looking at a bet on Leon Draisaitl’s Total Over 1.5 points for 1.90.