St Louis Blues vs Toronto Maple Leafs Prediction, Pick and Preview, February 19 (2/19): NHL

St Louis Blues vs Toronto Maple Leafs Prediction, Pick and Preview, February 19 (2/19): NHL

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Odds
Time 7:00 p.m. EST
Blues money line +160
Blues spread +1.5 (-165)
Maple Leafs money line -172
maple Leafs spread -1.5 (+140)
Over / under 6.5

 

2021-2022 season stats
  St Louis Blues Toronto Maple Leafs
Record 28-14-6 32-12-3
Road / home record 10-8-4 18-4-1
Streak L1 W2
Goals per game 3.48 3.60
Goals allowed per game 2.75 2.76
Shots per game 27.08 31.82
Shots allowed per game 31.56 30.72
PP % 27.08% 31.82%
PK % 15.49% 15.56%
Over / under record 22-23-3 25-21-1

 

Preview

The Maple Leafs will host the St Louis Blues on Saturday night. These teams just faced off last month on an electric show in St Louis where the Maple Leafs came up with the victory 6-5 as -200 favorites.

ST LOUIS BLUES

The Blues are coming from a loss against one of the worst teams in the league, the Canadiens. Cole Caufield forced overtime with 8.7 seconds left in regulation and then scored the winner in overtime for the Habs.

St Louis are 10-8-4 in road games and are fifth in the league recording 9.7 points per game, averaging 3.5 goals and 6.2 assists. Vladimir Tarasenko leads the Blues with 45 points, scoring 18 goals and adding 27 assists. Brayden Schenn has eight goals and six assists over the last 10 games for St. Louis.

The Blues are 6-4 in their last 10 games and are averaging 3.6 goals, 6.3 assists, 4.6 penalties and 9.5 penalty minutes while allowing 2.6 goals per game with a .912 save percentage.

TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS

The Maple Leafs are coming from their 2nd straight win where they completely dominated the Penguins.

Auston Matthews is leading Toronto in goals scored with 33 and points with 59, while Morgan Rielly is the leader in assists with 36. In goal, Jack Campbell is 23-7-3 with a goals against average of 2.34, save percentage of .924 and four shutouts. Toronto's power play scores 31.8% of the time and its penalty-kill unit is successful 84.4% of the time.

Toronto have won 8 of their last 10 games and are on a 7 game winning streak at home. 

BETTING TRENDS

St Louis are 6-10-1 as underdogs.

St. Louis are 5-10 SU in their last 15 games on the road.

Toronto are 8-2 SU in their last 10 games.

Toronto are 7-0 SU in their last 7 games at home.

The total has gone OVER in 7 of Toronto's last 9 games.

Prediction

Toronto is averaging 4.4 goals and giving up 2.7 goals per game in the last 10 games and have a great record at home. The Blues have been shaky and have lost 3 of their last 5 games. Maybe the over could be a good choice but it is a high total so I'll stick with the Maple Leafs to win at home where they have been outsanding.

PICK: Maple Leafs (-172)

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