Dustin Penner scored the huge overtime goal for the LA Kings last night to finish off their series with the Coyotes in 5 games. The ending was somewhat controversial after Dustin Brown got away with a knee on knee hit with Roszival after an offside just a few seconds before the Kings eventually scored. That being said the Kings were by far the superior team throughout the series and they deserve to be competing in the Stanley Cup Finals. I was on the Kings last night and that victory brings my NHL playoff record to (28-25) for +5.28 units.
New Jersey Devils @ New York Rangers
The Devils and Rangers are in one hell of a series with a lot of back and forth action and temperatures flaring up. Last game de Boer and Tortorella got into it after Rupp gave Brodeur a shot after the whistle and I expect both sides to still be fired up heading into this one. It would be hard to argue against the fact that the Devils have looked like the stronger team to this point in the series and in the playoffs overall. That being said the Rangers have scored more goals than the Devils in this series and have been able to capitalize on their chances more against Brodeur than the Devils have against Lundqvist. The Devils have been shutout 3-0 in games 1 and 3 in this series (all goals coming in 3rd period) so if the trend continues this game would finish 3-0 for the Rangers once again. Personally, I don’t believe in trends, especially in playoff series and I expect the Devils to find a way to solve Lundqvist tonight. This should be a tight low scoring game, but I like the Devils to pull it out as slight underdogs.
Play: Devils +118 (5Dimes.eu)
Check out our past NHL predictions to see how I’ve done in this series so far.
Written by: Niko de Jonge
Tagged with: New Jersey Devils betting • New York Rangers betting