Go With the Devils To Have St. Louis Singing The Blues
New Jersey Is Favored Against St. Louis According to the Blues vs Devils Odds
New Jersey Looks To Give Interim Head Coach Travis Green his First Win
The first game for interim head coach Travis Green didn’t go so well with the New Jersey Devils as they lost to the Eastern Conference-leading Florida Panthers. The Blues vs Devils odds list New Jersey as the favorite against visiting St. Louis.
St. Louis has won three games in a row against the Devils, including a 4-1 win as a home underdog on Nov. 3 in the first meeting of the season. The Blues have outscored the Devils 13-6 in those games.
The NHL betting line has New Jersey priced at -179 odds to win the game outright. St. Louis comes in at +141 on the Moneyline. New Jersey has +145 odds to cover as 1.5-goal favorites.
When looking at the current NHL playoff standings, New Jersey is eight points out of the final playoff spot in the Eastern Conference. St. Louis is six games out of the playoff structure in the Western Conference.
The NHL futures odds list New Jersey 14th at +3000 in the odds of winning the Stanley Cup. St. Louis is well back at +20000 in the championship odds.
Keep on reading for more about the showdown between the St. Louis Blues and the New Jersey Devils.
St. Louis Blues vs New Jersey Devils 
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Location: Prudential Center, Newark, New Jersey
Streaming: ESPN
Blues Struggling to Light the Lamp
The hope was that a 4-0 win over the New York Islanders would get the underachieving Blues going.
However, St. Louis was unable to build on that victory. The Blues have scored 12 goals over the last six games.
The only players with more than one goal during that stretch are Alexey Toropchenko and Pavel Buchnevich. More of the chatter surrounding Buchnevhich is which team he will be playing for next as he is one of the top targets when it comes to the trade rumors. That could impact the NHL starting lineups in the coming days.
Among the players to appear in at least five of the last six games, no St. Louis player has a positive plus/minus rating. That is something to consider regarding the Blues vs Devils odds.
The total went under in four of the last five games for the Blues against Metropolitan Division teams.
The Devils Are At It Again
Few NHL franchises change coaches as often as the New Jersey Devils. It happened again with Lindy Ruff being fired and being replaced by former Vancouver Canucks head coach Travis Green. Green had one winning season in his four seasons in Vancouver with Vancouver 8-15 when he was let go during the 2021-22 season.
Green had a tough opening night as the Devils’ coach, falling to a Florida team sitting atop the NHL standings.
There are some pretty ugly plus/minus numbers among the New Jersey players since the end of the NHL All-Star break, with defenseman Luke Hughes at -13, his older brother Jack Hughes at -7, and center Dawson Mercer. Tyler Toffoli has a -6 defensive rating. Keep that in mind when it is looking at the Blues vs Devils odds.
New Jersey has been outscored 51-44 over its last 15 games and is said to be in the market for a goalie as the trade deadline approaches.
Six of New Jersey’s last nine games went over the total.
Last Meeting
Looking at the NHL scores, Kevin Hayes scored two goals, including one of the two empty-net goals, as St. Louis topped New Jersey 4-1 on Nov. 3 in the season’s first meeting between the teams. It was the third time in the last four games between St. Louis and New Jersey that the teams finished under the total.
The home team has won five of the last seven meetings between the teams, with only one game decided by one goal.
Blues vs Devils Betting Preview
One of these NHL teams will be getting a much-needed win as the Blues are 4-5-1 over the last 10 games while the Devils have won just three of the last 10.
New Jersey is 4-5 over its last nine games as a home favorite. The Devils have covered against the puck line in just two of those games. St. Louis has lost five of its last six games as a road underdog, with just one of those games going over the total.
Winger Ondrej Palat is questionable for the Devils, while New Jersey continues to play without defenseman Dougie Hamilton, forward Nathan Bastian, and goalie Vitek Vanecek.
New Jersey has lost four of its last six home games as the Montreal Canadiens, and Columbus Blue Jackets are the only Eastern Conference teams with fewer home wins than the Devils. St. Louis is just 14-16-2 on the road.
The total has gone under in four of New Jersey’s last six games against Western Conference teams. The total is set at 6.5 goals for this matchup.
The Devils are 25-16-2 as the favorite, and St. Louis is 24-22-3 when listed as the underdog.
No number is more stunning than New Jersey’s 5-27 record against the spread at home. Twenty of those games did finish over the total. Eighteen of the 32 road games for St. Louis went under the total.
Somebody has to win this game, so why not go with the Devils to win the game outright?
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