Pittsburgh Penguins versus Detroit Red Wings Game 1 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs Finals Hockey Betting Preview

Published on May 30, 2009 by admin · No Comments

It will be the Pittsburgh Penguins and Detroit Red Wings in the NHL Stanley Cup Finals Playoffs best of 7 series that begins on Saturday. This rematch of the 2008 NHL Stanley Cup Finals is scheduled to face off in Detroit at 8PM Eastern Time with National Television Coverage by NBC in the United States and CBC in Canada. Detroit will hold home ice advantage in this Stanley Cup Finals series. LVSC has set the series prices and the defending Stanley Cup Finals champion Detroit Red Wings are a –160 favorite with the Penguins the underdogs bringing back +140 to pull off this best of 7 series upset. LVSC has set the opening numbers for game 1 and the Detroit Red Wings opened as –140 favorites with the over under coming in at 5 ½ goals. The money has come in on the favored Red Wings, as they currently are –160 favorites with the Penguins paying +140 to pull off the game 1 upset victory. The total has saw upward movement in the betting to an over under of 6 goals. For Puck Line bettors laying 1 ½ goals with Detroit pays +190 with getting 1 ½ goals with Pittsburgh paying –215.

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The teams met twice during the regular season with Detroit winning at Pittsburgh 3-0 and the Penguins beat the Red Wings 7-6 on Detroit home ice. Detroit has gotten the better goaltending in the playoffs surrendering only 34 goals over 16 post season games while the Penguins defense has allowed the lamp to be lit on 47 times over 17 playoff games in 2009. Detroit is the top scoring team in the league averaging 3.60 goals and over 36 shots on goal per game. On special teams the Red Wings lead the league converting on 25.85% of their power play chances. On the power play the Penguins rank 20th in the league scoring on 17.4% of their man advantages. Detroit beat Pittsburgh in 6 games in the 2008 Stanley Cup Playoffs. The Red Wings opened the series with two straight home shut out victories in their finals series with Pittsburgh last season.

Trend: Detroit is 10-4 in their past 14 meetings

The Wagerline consensus has 54.8% of the bettors on Detroit -160

The Wagerline consensus has 69.4% of the bettors playing over 6 goals

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