New Jersey Devils vs Chicago Blackhawks Prediction: The teams are at a completely different level

Prediction for the NHL New Jersey Devils vs Chicago Blackhawks match, which will take place on December 7. Check the team conditions and choose several betting options.

New Jersey is having a great regular season. The club's personnel rebuild has ended, so the Devils should have been expected to make significant progress, but they are moving even better than they thought they would. In the first two meetings of the season, they lost to Philadelphia and Detroit - 2:5, but in the next 23 games, they lost only three times and 20 wins. They are now down to second place in the Eastern Conference standings, but they are currently sitting in second place with Boston.

Chicago is showing roughly the results you should have expected even before the season started. In the offseason, the Red and Black decided to finally break down everything they had to build a new team systematically. Of course, they can't solve big things during that rebuild, which is why the Hawks are among the hopeless outsiders in the NHL. They had only one win over the Rangers in their last ten meetings - 5:2, and in the nine remaining games during that stretch, there were only losses. The string of losses dropped Chicago to 15th place in the Western Conference standings.

New Jersey and Chicago are completely different rivals at the moment. The Devils are having a great regular season, rarely losing and sitting at the top of the Eastern Conference standings. The Hawks can only dream of such a feat as they're in the middle of a personnel reorganization process which has left them among the league's outsiders, having lost nine of their last ten games. Of course, they are the favorites, and you can bet on the victory of New Jersey with a handicap (-1,5) odds of about 1.63.

In the current regular season, Chicago isn't only located at the bottom of the Western Conference standings but also demonstrates the disgusting reliability of the defensive structures. While the Hawks had some defense in the season opener, they've conceded 42 goals (4.67 average per game) in their last nine games. The Devils have to take advantage of it, so the best option for the prediction seems to be an individual total of New Jersey over 4.5 pucks for 1.70. We should look at the bet on the total over 0.5 points of Dougie Hamilton for 1.71.

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