Toronto vs Boston Prediction: Cheering for the favorites

On November 6, 2022 a regular season NHL match between Toronto and Boston will be held in the Scotiabank Arena. The start of the meeting is scheduled for 2 a.m. UTC +3.

Toronto is one of the strongest teams in the league, but it can't prove it yet. We can't even talk about the Maple Leafs' playoff success, since they haven't made it past the first round of the Stanley Cup in almost two decades. Now they are having trouble in the regular season as well. While Sheldon Keefe's team looked good in the beginning, in late October they had a streak of four straight losses. They stopped their losing streak only the day before, when they managed to beat Philadelphia 5-2 and moved up to 11th place in the East Conference standings.

Boston has been surprising so far. If last season the Bruins were already in trouble in the regular season and then quickly dropped out of the playoffs, now they started to show good results right from the beginning. They manage to succeed under the guidance of their new head coach Jim Montgomery, who replaced Bruce Cassidy in the offseason. By this moment they have already played 11 games and gained ten victories, their only loss happened in the match against Ottawa - 5-7. Such solid results put Boston at the top of the Eastern Conference standings.

Toronto and Boston approach their first face-to-face meeting of the season in very different shape. While the Maple Leafs have lost four of their last five games, the Bruins haven't lost points in seven straight games. Of course, such a strong winning streak makes Boston the favorites now, although they'll face an uncomfortable opponent. Nevertheless, it begs the bet on the victory of Boston in the match with odds of about 2.60.

Toronto and Boston have recently been on a high scoring streak in their head-to-head encounters. In the last three ties, the opponents have scored 24 goals against each other (8.00 average per game). Now we have every reason to expect a scoring feast, and we'll opt for a total of more than 6.5 pucks at 1.75. In addition, you can bet on a total of more than 0.5 points by Taylor Hall for 1.70.