Edmonton Oilers VS Ottawa Senators ( BETTING TIPS, Match Preview & Expert Analysis )
PREVIEW & TIPS Edmonton Oilers VS Ottawa Senators
The Oilers have won all five previous meetings in 2021 and so Tim Stützle and his Ottawa Senators got the sixth chance on Wednesday to finally win against the feared opponent.
The odds on it are correspondingly high. In any case, higher than the inferiority in these games. Ottawa just lost the last two duels 2: 3 and each time they were at least close to an extension.
Edmonton Oilers News
The Oilers can be happy to have the Ottawa Senators this year. Without the games against them, they would not be on a playoff spot and would probably have a significantly lower level of self-confidence. After all, they have already scored 21 goals against them. So it is a good thing that they meet the Sens again on Wednesday, for the sixth and still not the last time – the new North Division makes it possible. But the last duels got closer and closer and so their series threatens to end at some point, possibly on Wednesday.
One of the Oilers stars in particular is always particularly happy when the Senator’s name appears on the scoreboard: Leon Draisaitl. In the previous five duels with the Sens he was able to achieve ten scorer points, which results in an average of two per game. On Monday he again scored the decisive 3-1. In general, the second row around Yamamoto and Draisaitl is still a guarantee for victories, just like the first around superstar Connor McDavid. What happens behind it, however, defies description.
Ottawa Senators News
The Senators are in much better shape than they were at the start of the season. If they were the weakest team in the entire NHL for weeks, they were able to win five of their last ten games, more than the Flames, Canadiens or even the Bruins. You can also avoid the high bankruptcies that hailed from time to time at the beginning of the season. The 3: 7 against the Flames recently can be seen as an exception. However, they beat them twice before with 5: 1 and 6: 1.
With 3.86 goals per game, they are still lagging behind in the last place in the NHL, but that is due to their bad start to the season. In their last five games they have only conceded more than three goals once, in this 3: 7 against Calgary. They still have these outliers down, which is not entirely innocent of their goalie Matt Murray, who with a save percentage of 88.5% is only 66th among all goalies (including backups). It’s just catastrophic.