Another streak is coming to an end tonight. Edmonton has a 3 game winning streak on home ice against the Rangers, Canucks and Capitals. Not many teams will be able to say they've beaten these three teams at home this season. The Oilers did it in one week. The quality of the opposition graded with each game and it peaked yesterday when they had to entertain the Washington Capitals who came with a 7-0-0 score. The Oilers took the test and passed it with flying colors. But when all is said and done its just another W in the win column. They still had to board a plane, fly to Colorado, go out on a practice and will have to face today's opponent who's last game was Wednesday. The young core of Edmonton just isn't used to this tempo. Oh yeah, the altitude in Colorado also doesn't help.
Colorado comes of a disappointing defeat against Calgary and i am sure the coach had a few harsh words for the effort. Today they return to their home arena where they started 0-2 and they will give their best to repay what they owe the home fans: a home win.
The media are hyping up the matchup of the two youngest stars the teams have at the moment: Nugent-Hopkins and Landeskog.I am not so excited about it though. Not because they arent great players, but the circumstances under which Edmonton arives to play todays match might prevent Nugent from performing at his peak.
Pick: Colorado(in 60mins.) @2.10 (Expect)
Stake: 100
Result: LOST
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