Seattle Kraken vs Pittsburgh Penguins Prediction: The guests will be stronger

Prediction for the NHL match which will take place on March 1. Who will turn out to be stronger? Check the team conditions! Several betting options are available.

Seattle does not intend to let go of the Cup Eight, continuing to fight for the playoffs. The current regular season is going much worse for the Krakens than last year, but there are still chances for redemption. They started losing a lot of points from the beginning of the season, and at the turn of November and December, they lost eight games in a row, but then they started to improve. The team had a nine-game winning streak that got them close to the top-8, and then they continued to play at a decent level, with four wins and two losses in their last six games. Seattle is now in 12th place in the Western Conference standings.

Pittsburgh is another team for which the current regular season is incredibly difficult, but the Pennsylvanians are still in the race for cup spots. They have now beaten Montreal 4:1 in each of their last three meetings, beat Philadelphia in the derby 7:6 in a shootout, and the day before were unexpectedly stronger than Vancouver 4:3. Three consecutive wins leave Mike Sullivan's wards on the 11th line in the Eastern Conference standings, but the gap from the playoff zone has been reduced to seven points.

Seattle and Pittsburgh are still located outside the playoff zone; at the same time, they have not looked so bad recently and, therefore, still intend to fight for the cup places. The Pennsylvanians, who have won their last three games in a row, are seven points out of the top-8 and have a few games in hand. All of these facts clearly energise the Penguins, who seem to have a sense of excitement and intend to use it to their advantage. In addition, the Black-and-Yellow beat the Krakens in the first personal meeting in the season - 3:0.

The confrontation between Seattle and Pittsburgh has not yet acquired an impressive history, but some conclusions can be drawn now. The rivals rarely play each other effectively. In the last four head-to-head meetings, they have combined for only 14 shots on goal (3.50 average per game). In addition, four out of five times, at least one of the teams has scored less than two goals, and now they're in the playoffs, so they'll try to minimize the risk of mistakes.