We split the games from Saturday night, but won our exclusive Saturday pick when the Thrashers were able to hold off the Islanders on Long Island. Here is tonights one play:
Atlanta Thrashers @ Ottawa Senators
The Thrashers have been on a tear of late, (8-2-0) in their last ten games, which includes a couple of wins in their last two away games. Pavelec has been playing very well with a .944 save percentage and a 1.79 GAA on the season. He will be up against Brian Elliott of the Senators tonight, who is back in net after Leclaire defeated the New Jersey Devils on Friday. Elliott didn’t play well his last outting, but he is normally very good coming off a game that Leclaire played, with 3 shutouts out of 5 games. I expect him to be back at his best tonight and to lead the Senators to win.
The Sens are currently 7 points back of the Thrashers for 8th in the Eastern Conference and each game is becoming increasingly important if the Senators look to be in the playoff race come later in the season. Alfredsson, Spezza and Kovalev are still not putting up the points needed for the Senators, and they will need this to turn around very soon. Byfuglien and Ladd have continued their strong play throughout the season and have shown just how deep that Blackhawks Stanley Cup winning team was, by coming to a new team, becoming the best players and the captain and assistant, after being 3rd liners on Chicago. Ottawa will need to shut these 2 down tonight in order to win the game.
My Pick: Ottawa Senators -120 (Bookmaker.com)
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Written by: Niko de Jonge
Tagged with: Atlanta Thrashers • Ottawa Senators