Pre-match information:
Place: American Airlines Arena. Dallas. USA
Date: on the 17th of November, 2018 (Saturday)
Match start: 02:00 (GMT+1)
Tournament: NHL
Dallas
Dallas came back home and at once won over San Jose (4:3). Jamie Benn’s team lost after that to Nashville (4:5, OT) and then gave way to Columbus (1:2).
Stars usually play well at home but they are not able to score a lot of goals steadily though Stars are quite good in defense.
Ben Bishop played 12 matches in the current season. In them he made 364 saves, having stoned 91.5% of pucks.
Boston
Boston began the new road trip and in the first game lost to Colorado (3:6).
Bruce Cassidy’s players are frankly weak in attack during away match, trying to miss as little as possible.
By the way, six out of eight away matches of the team ended with total under 5.5.
Jaroslav Halák continues to play the first number. For 12 games he missed 24 goals, having stoned 93.2% of pucks.
Statistics and head-to- heads Dallas vs Boston
Boston has played six out of eight away matches on total under 5.5.
Dallas has spent three out of five last matches on total under 5.5.
Four last games between teams happened on total under 5.5.
Bookmaker coefficients on the match Dallas vs Boston
Dallas to win – 2.48
Draw – 3.94;
Boston to win – 2.45
Match prediction
Boston tries to play from defense. Boston Bruins don’t score many goals and Dallas is quite reliable in defense at home.
Now attack of Stars is playing every other time therefore we will risk proposing the total under for the match.