Pre-match information:
Place: Bell MTS Place. Winnipeg. Canada
Date: on the 17th of November, 2018 (Saturday)
Match start: 02:00 (GMT+1)
Tournament: NHL
Winnipeg
Winnipeg is doing great during the home series of matches after return from Europe.
Jets have won over Colorado (5:2), New Jersey (5:2) and Washington (3:1), having shown the good game both in defense and in the attack.
Jets will play the last match before leaving the country and it is necessary to win and to take the second place in the conference.
Connor Hellebuyck spent 14 games at the beginning. During this time he has missed 38 pucks, having earned 2.72 GAA.
Buffalo
Buffalo doesn’t always feel itself surely during away match. Now the team is in an excellent form, it has won over Montreal (6:5, OT), Vancouver (4:3, OT) and Tampa Bay (2:1) but usually in matches against strongly playing at home teams the Blades seem to be weaker than the rivals.
Carter Hutton has played nine matches more than Linus Ulmark. Hutton misses 2.64 pucks for the game and stones 91.6% of pucks.
Statistics and head-to- heads Winnipeg vs Buffalo
Winnipeg won three last home games in regular time.
Winnipeg won four out of five last matches.
Buffalo lost three out of four last away matches.
Bookmaker coefficients on the match Winnipeg vs Buffalo
Winnipeg to win – 1.82
Draw – 4.30;
Buffalo to win – 3.80
Match prediction
Buffalo is quite good but in matches against the strongly playing home teams the Blades don’t show the best hockey.
Winnipeg after the rest is great; the team from Canada is really destroying the rivals.
We think that this time the hosts will get the victory.