Seattle Kraken vs Pittsburgh Penguins Prediction: Will Pittsburgh defeat the recent outsiders?

On October 30 at the Climate Pledge Arena NHL regular season match between Seattle and Pittsburgh will be held. We offer you the prediction for this match.

Seattle holds its second season in the NHL. If a year ago the Krakens were hopeless outsiders of the league who were only trying to find themselves, now they intend to make significant progress. It's probably a little early to talk about the playoffs, but they're obviously trying to get closer to the top eight. Dave Hakstol's team has already played nine games in the opening round of the regular season and has three wins and six losses, which puts them in eighth place of the Western Conference standings.

Pittsburgh continues to lose ground they gained at the start of the season. In the opening of the current regular season, the Penguins had four wins in five meetings with a total score of 24-8, and the only loss was to Montreal in overtime, 2-3. After that, the Pennsylvanians headed to the West, where they suffered one upset after another. First, they lost to Edmonton 3-6, then they lost to Calgary 1-4, and the day before they failed to defeat Vancouver 1-5. A string of losses dropped Pittsburgh to fifth place in the Eastern Conference standings.

• Seattle: Jones, Larsson - Dunn, Eberle - Beniers - Schwartz.
• Pittsburgh: Jarry, Dumoulin - Letang, Rakell - Crosby - Rust.

Pittsburgh is usually having a hard time playing in the West, and in the opening game of the current regular season, the Penguins are failing, having lost all three away games with a total score of 5:15. Nevertheless, the Pennsylvanians should at least score some points on the road, and they have a game against the weakest of opponents ahead. Seattle is still in the process of gaining experience and has very poor results, that's why we need to bet on the victory of Pittsburgh with the odds about 2.05.
Pittsburgh has a very decent offensive play in the current regular season, having already scored 31 goals in eight games (3.88 average per game), and now they will have a chance to improve this statistic. The thing is that Seattle can't boast a strong defense, missing 33 goals in nine games (3.67 average per game), so the best option for the forecast is an individual total of Pittsburgh over 3.5 goals for 2.05, and also we can bet on the total more than 1.5 points of Evgeni Malkin for 2.55.