Sabres vs Canadiens Prediction, Odds & Props

NHL · Sat, Oct 17 · 7:15 PM ET

Buffalo Sabres

Away · 4-3

Montreal Canadiens

Home · 4-3

Scouting report

Sprinkle's read:BUF Under 3.5 team total★★★★

A quiet offense against a full number

Buffalo has gone quiet, scoring 2.8 times a game over their last five, and tonight's number asks them to beat that. Montreal will hand out chances — they are bleeding five a game — but the Sabres still have to bury them, and right now they aren't.

The number

Buffalo would need to roughly lift their recent output to clear 3.5, and nothing in the last five games suggests that is close.

The decider

Dobes is the weaker net by a wide margin right now — stopping about eight of ten, well off his own baseline — so Montreal's side of the scoreboard is the one likely to move.

The context

Both clubs are losing, but they are losing differently: Montreal's games are track meets, Buffalo's are ordinary. This bet is really a question of which pattern holds. Buffalo is putting 28.0 shots a game on net and finishing 10.7% of them.

Situational

Buffalo is on the second night of a back-to-back; Montreal is on the second night of a back-to-back — a notch toward the under.

What breaks this

Montreal allows 4.5 a game, so the chances will be there. If Dobes has another night like his last few, the under is gone early.

Buffalo Sabres

Last five

W4-3 vs CHI
W3-2 vs MIN
L0-4 vs DAL
L1-4 vs UTAH
W5-3 vs FLA

Out

No players listed out.

Montreal Canadiens

Last five

W3-2 @ TOR
L5-6 @ PIT
L4-6 vs CAR
L2-5 vs NSH
L4-5 @ WSH

Out

No players listed out.

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