Pre-match information:
Place: T Center.
Date: on the 09th of December, 2018 (Sunday)
Match start: 01:00 (GMT+1)
Tournament: USA. NHL
Florida
Florida is greeting Roberto Luongo who has recovered from trauma and at once has crushed Boston (5:0). Panthers lost to Colorado (2:5), having shown weak game in defense.
In general as the season course progresses together with the first goalkeeper Panthers were strong in home matches. Meanwhile they won only six out of 14 matches on their ground but they have everything ahead.
Roberto Luongo misses 2.85 pucks for the game on average. He missed 27 times, having stoned 91.1% of shots.
Rangers
New York continues to lose points and now is in not the best form. The team from New York state has lost four out of five last matches and at the same time Rangers don’t score points in away matches since November 11.
Now the guests have also some squad problems. Pavel Buchnevich is still injured, also we are not sure if Mats Zuccarello and Vladislav Namestnikov will participate in this match.
Henrik Lundqvist continues to play in the starting line up. For 21 meetings he missed 55 goals, having stoned 92.1% of shots.
Statistics and head-to- heads
Rangers have lost four last away matches in regular time.
Florida has won six out of ten last home matches.
This season Rangers won home match against Panthers twice.
Cops have lost four out of six last matches.
Bookmaker coefficients on the match Florida vs Rangers
Florida to win – odds 1.97;
Draw – 4.3;
Rangers to win – odds 3.28.
Match prediction
New York is very strong at home but Cops don’t demonstrate good results in away matches. Rangers miss a lot of goals and now they have also squad problems. As for Florida, the team needs points. At home the hosts will hardly allow Rangers to take away at least one point.
Our tip: Florida to win – odds 1.96 Unibet