Ottawa Senators vs New York Rangers Prediction: Ooutsider will undoubtedly try to rehabilitate

Prediction for the NHL Ottawa Senators vs New York Rangers match which will take place on January 28th. Who will turn out to be stronger? Check the team conditions! Several betting options are available.

Ottawa has been resurgent lately, so the first half of the regular season was pretty bad for the Senators. They were held scoreless in their last seven meetings only once, losing to Colorado 4:7. They lost twice more to Winnipeg and Boston, 2:1 and 2:2 while beating San Jose 5:4, Montreal 6:2, Philadelphia 5:3, and Montreal 4:1. Despite such a productive stretch, Jacques Martin's team remains in last place in the Eastern Conference standings.

The Rangers had a great first half of the regular season. From the first games, Peter Laviolette began to prove that even in his first year with them, he was ready to take on the most significant challenges. The Rangers avoided severe struggles for a long time, but the results worsened in January. First, they went on a four-game losing streak. Then they beat Washington 2:1 and Seattle 5:2, but then lost to Vegas 5:1 and Los Angeles 1:2. The end of the California tournament was spoiled by a sensational 3:2 loss to San Jose, but the New York team remains in the top 3 of the Eastern Conference standings.

Ottawa is having their best stretch of the regular season, picking up points in almost all of its recent games. The Senators still lose games to teams at the top of the standings. They are often outside of regulation, but they are still dropping points. In the upcoming confrontation, it will also be hard to count on success, as the opponent will be a New York team, which has lost a lot of points in recent games, but in the fight with the NHL, an outsider will undoubtedly try to rehabilitate. 

Ottawa began not only to improve, gaining points more often, but also to please the public with bright and rich goals hockey. In their last nine games, the Senators had 66 shots on goal (an average of 7.33 per game), a respectable number by NHL standards. Interestingly, Ottawa has scored and conceded an equal number of goals during this stretch - 33 each (3.67 per game average).