Ottawa Senators vs Columbus Blue Jackets Prediction: Who Will Stop Being an Outsider?

Prediction for the NHL Ottawa Senators vs Columbus Blue Jackets match, which will take place on January 4th. Who will turn out to be stronger? Check the team conditions! Several betting options are available.

Ottawa has spent all the recent seasons modestly, but already in the current regular season. The Senators should be expected to fight for the playoffs. Yes, it is far from a fact that they will come out of it as winners, but they are not hopeless outsiders right now. At first, things were not the best for the Senators, but the situation was rectified. In the last 11 games, DJ Smith's wards have won seven victories with four defeats, which is a worthy result that allows us to believe in a bright future. In the Eastern Conference standings, Ottawa is still in 12th place.

Things are much worse for Columbus. If we had seen a bright and spectacular game performed by the Jackets a year earlier, in which the hockey players could gradually progress, the defense remained just as problematic. Still, the attack noticeably slowed down compared to last season. If, in the debut of the regular season, Brad Larsen's wards at least periodically clung to the result, then in the last eight meetings, they scored only two points, beating Chicago the day before – 4:1, and before there was a 7-match series of defeats in regular time. Of course, with such indicators, Columbus closes the Eastern Conference standings.

Ottawa and Columbus have been side by side in the Eastern Conference standings in recent years, being its outsiders. Still, the Senators have gradually begun to get rid of this status. Moreover, they are in good shape now and are playing especially productively at home, where they scored nine out of ten possible points in the previous five games. The Jackets' indicators are noticeably more modest, and on the road, they lost in seven consecutive games, and exclusively in regular time.

In the current regular season, Ottawa is not distinguished by outstanding offensive productivity, but the Senators' attack will have a good chance to prove itself in the upcoming match. The thing is that Columbus has an extremely weak defense, which in seven previous away meetings allowed them to hit their own goal 28 times (4.00 on average per game).

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