Winnipeg Jets at Calgary Flames (-130, 5)
You have to give the Calgary Flames some credit. Despite missing seven forwards due to injury, they were just two points out of a playoff spot ahead of Thursday’s action.
Captain Jarome Iginla put the team on his back Tuesday, scoring twice in a hard-fought 5-4 win over Montreal.
"We're going through a tough stretch, and sometimes when it goes like that, you just need that one to get over the hump,” Iginla told reporters. “It's not pretty but it's still an important win for us."
It’s probably going to get a lot uglier down the stretch. The Flames are 2-3-3 in their last eight, but are now relying on basically two forward lines to provide the offense, which has struggled all season to begin with.
The Flames do catch a bit of a break with Winnipeg playing the second half of a back-to-back, but the Jets need these points just as much as Calgary does.
We like the road team value here.
Pick: Jets ---
New York Rangers at Chicago Blackhawks (-120, 5)
The good news for the Chicago Blackhawks is they face the Eastern Conference’s best team as it plays on consecutive nights. The bad news is that means they’ll almost certainly see Henrik Lundqvist in the cage after he took Thursday night off.
The Blackhawks were just pushed around all over the ice in a 5-1 loss to the hard-working St. Louis Blues, a team that grinds teams out with depth and defense much like the Rangers do.
"They have a great home record," Chicago coach Joel Quenneville told reporters of the Blues. "They are playing well. Across the boards, game in, game out, this team is winning hockey games. They can win low-scoring affairs and they can win a lot of different ways. They have some depth to their team, and we (had) to be at our best."
The Blackhawks have been held to 20 or fewer shots in three of their last five games and it’s probably going to take a lot more than that to rattle Lundqvist.
Look to the under or play the road underdog here as well.
Pick: Rangers ---
You have to give the Calgary Flames some credit. Despite missing seven forwards due to injury, they were just two points out of a playoff spot ahead of Thursday’s action.
Captain Jarome Iginla put the team on his back Tuesday, scoring twice in a hard-fought 5-4 win over Montreal.
"We're going through a tough stretch, and sometimes when it goes like that, you just need that one to get over the hump,” Iginla told reporters. “It's not pretty but it's still an important win for us."
It’s probably going to get a lot uglier down the stretch. The Flames are 2-3-3 in their last eight, but are now relying on basically two forward lines to provide the offense, which has struggled all season to begin with.
The Flames do catch a bit of a break with Winnipeg playing the second half of a back-to-back, but the Jets need these points just as much as Calgary does.
We like the road team value here.
Pick: Jets ---
New York Rangers at Chicago Blackhawks (-120, 5)
The good news for the Chicago Blackhawks is they face the Eastern Conference’s best team as it plays on consecutive nights. The bad news is that means they’ll almost certainly see Henrik Lundqvist in the cage after he took Thursday night off.
The Blackhawks were just pushed around all over the ice in a 5-1 loss to the hard-working St. Louis Blues, a team that grinds teams out with depth and defense much like the Rangers do.
"They have a great home record," Chicago coach Joel Quenneville told reporters of the Blues. "They are playing well. Across the boards, game in, game out, this team is winning hockey games. They can win low-scoring affairs and they can win a lot of different ways. They have some depth to their team, and we (had) to be at our best."
The Blackhawks have been held to 20 or fewer shots in three of their last five games and it’s probably going to take a lot more than that to rattle Lundqvist.
Look to the under or play the road underdog here as well.
Pick: Rangers ---
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