Bruins vs Blues: Prediction, Team News and Canadian Odds

St Louis has been shut out in each of their last two games at home. Montréal won 2-0 and Carolina won 4-0, and now the best defensive record in the league arrives. Boston has conceded twenty-eight goals in thirteen games. The call, the team news and the Canadian odds follow.

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Bruins vs Blues odds

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St Louis has not scored at home in two games

The Blues are 5-6-1 on eleven points and twenty-third. Their last two at the Enterprise Center finished 2-0 to Montréal and 4-0 to Carolina.

Two home shut-outs in a row is not a scoring slump, it is a drought. Thirty-five goals in twelve games is not a bad season rate, which makes the two blanks look more like opponents than a trend.

Joel Hofer has the better of the crease at 4-3-1 and a .917, well clear of Jordan Binnington’s 1-3-0 and .846. Torey Krug is out for the season and four others are on injured reserve.

How they compare

Boston finished fourteen points clear of St Louis last season and scored half a goal a game more. The penalty kill was almost level, within a point, so the gap sat in the power play: 23.4 per cent against 17.6.

Boston has the best goal difference in the league

The Bruins are 9-3-1 on nineteen points and fourth, with forty-nine goals for and twenty-eight against. Plus twenty-one is the best goal difference in the NHL and twenty-eight against is the meanest defence.

Carolina beat them 2-1 on Tuesday, their first defeat in three. Before that they put six past Nashville and six past San Jose, so the scoring is not the issue it was last season.

Jeremy Swayman has ten starts at .921 and Michael DiPietro three at .941, which is the best number of the four goaltenders here. Boston has nobody on the injury report.

Four of the last five finished at seven goals or fewer

Boston leads the all-time series 94 wins to 70 across 164 meetings, one of the longest records either club has. The last five split three-two to Boston.

Those five produced 7, 7, 5, 5 and 6 goals, an average of 6.0. None of them cleared seven. Two needed only five, and the pattern holds across both venues rather than one.

Team news

Who starts in goal is an open question. Boston Bruins has split between Swayman (10 starts, .921) and DiPietro (3, .941), and St Louis Blues has split between Hofer (8 starts, .917) and Binnington (4, .846). Form and selection are different questions, and only one of them is settled before the morning skate.

We keep the rest of the league on our NHL injury report.

Players to watch

Jeremy Swayman, Boston. Ten starts at a .921 behind the meanest defence in the league.

Joel Hofer, St Louis. A .917 and the only reason the last two home games were 2-0 and 4-0 rather than worse.

Michael DiPietro, Boston. A .941 across three starts, the best save percentage of the four goaltenders in this game.

Score prediction

Boston Bruins 3-1 St Louis Blues. Boston concedes the fewest in the league and St Louis has not scored at home in two games.

Bruins vs Blues prediction

Boston is the side we would take. The best goal difference in the league, the fewest goals against, no injuries at all, and an opponent who has been shut out twice running at home.

The case for St Louis is Hofer and the series. His .917 is a real number, the last five meetings have all been tight, and Boston lost in Carolina on Tuesday. Our lean: Boston, and the under if the total sits at 6 or higher. None of the last five meetings cleared seven, Boston concedes 2.2 a game, and St Louis has scored nothing at home in two attempts.

The NHL power rankings puts both clubs against the other 30, and the rest of Thursday’s games sits on the NHL schedule.

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