NHL Stadium Sequence Picks: Why the Rangers Are Underdogs vs. Panthers

It.s a quiet 4 sport slate within the NHL, however we do get a Signature Occasion Huge Recreation Factor, or regardless of the league calls it (okay, it is the NHL Stadium Sequence). 

No less than they’ve discovered through the years to not bury it towards the Faculty Soccer Playoffs. 

In any case, right here’s my NHL Decide for the day.

NHL Season Stats
Document: 15–21
Models: –5.41

Rangers vs. Panthers

Rangers ML (+130 BetRivers)

Does out of doors hockey in South Florida sound unusual? Nicely, we get to see the way it performs out tonight because the Rangers and Panthers sq. off at loanDepot Park, house of the Miami Marlins. Presumably the roof will stay open, in any other case I actually don’t get the purpose. I really like the frozen out of doors video games in tremendous fascinating venues like Wrigley or a well-known CFB stadium. I’ve been to a few Marlins video games, it’s past meh.

However I digress, we’re on the lookout for some worth right here. And I see it on the Rangers for a pair causes.

For one, there’s simply no house ice benefit in any way. It is not the Panthers precise area and the group will probably be combined at finest and if something will probably tilt Rangers Blue to the extent that issues. And whereas New York is the worst house staff within the league, they’re the most effective once they go away city. They’ve gone 14-8-2 on the season and outscored opponents 73-59. They’ve yielded simply 2.43 Objectives per 60 minutes.

And maybe most significantly they simply received star defenseman Adam Fox again. That’s enormous for an especially high heavy staff, particularly on the Energy Play the place they fully flailed in his absence.

By April, Florida will probably flip into the most effective groups within the league once more as they search a third straight Cup. However its January and Matthew Tkachuk and Aleksander Barkov stay out. Sure its a excessive profile sport and the Panthers do appear to rise up for these. 

However they simply haven’t gotten all that a lot going this season. They did enhance record-wise in December with a 9-4-1 mark, however it got here with only a 50-47 aim benefit and 50.19 xGF% that screams league common.

And once more, the oddness of the venue is the good equalizer. This isn’t taking part in a decide up sport on a frozen pond like many of those gamers have achieved. Its open air in gentle temps in a baseball stadium. I’m not going to faux I understand how that performs out however I do know I would like plus odds and I get the higher goalie as well as Igor Shesterkin (91% Save$, 10.36 GSAA) has fully outplayed the non playoff model of Sergei Bobrovsky (88.8% Save%, -6.67 GSAA). 

Lets Go Rangers!