Vancouver The Pick to End Recent Struggles vs Colorado
The Avalanche vs Canucks Betting Odds Approaching Pick'Em Status
A Pair Of Title Contenders Get Together in Vancouver
Mid-March NHL games don’t get much better than the one between the visiting Colorado Avalanche and the Western Conference-leading Vancouver Canucks. The Avalanche vs Canucks betting odds are almost dead, even heading into this matchup.
Colorado won the first two games against Vancouver this season, with the Avalanche holding the high-scoring Canucks to a total of three goals.
The NHL betting lines have Colorado with +205 odds to cover against the puck line as the 1.5-goal favorite, while Vancouver is at -245 at +1.5 as a rare home underdog. Colorado is priced at -109 to win the game outright, compared to -110 for Vancouver.
When looking at potential NHL picks and parlays, Colorado’s Nathan MacKinnon leads the NHL with 111 points, while Vancouver’s J.T. Miller, Elias Pettersson, and Quinn Hughes are among the top 20 scorers in the league.
If the NHL playoff schedule were released today, Colorado would face Winnipeg in the first round, while Vancouver would have home-ice advantage against reigning Stanley Cup champion Vegas.
Colorado is tied for second at +800 in the odds of winning the Stanley Cup, while Vancouver’s championship odds have moved from +6000 to +1200 since the season began.
Keep on reading for more on the matchup between the Colorado Avalanche and the Vancouver Canucks.
Avalanche vs Canucks 
Records: Colorado Avalanche 41-20-5 at Vancouver Canucks 42-17-7
Location: Rogers Arena, Vancouver, BC
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Streaming: Altitude, ESPN+
Ready to Turn the Corner?
Colorado‘s recent road record is not impressive. It was 2-5-1 in its previous eight games before Tuesday’s 5-2 win over Calgary. The last three road wins came against Calgary, Chicago, and Washington, and those teams are a combined 17 games under .500.
The last road win against a team currently in playoff position came against Philadelphia on Jan. 20.
If there is a silver lining, the last time Colorado played road games on back-to-back games, the Avalanche scored seven times to beat Ottawa, so keep that in mind when looking at the Avalanche vs Canucks betting odds.
The total has gone under in five of Colorado’s last seven games.
Miller Delivering For the Canucks
J.T. Miller hasn’t gone back-to-back without a goal over his last 14 games, as Miller has 10 goals and seven assists during that time.
Miller has matched his career high with 32 goals, and he is on pace to reach the top 100 points for the first time in his 13 seasons in the NHL.
He has scored twice in the first two games of the season against the Avalanche. Over his last eight games against the Avalanche, Miller has four goals and three assists, and that is something to consider when it comes to the Avalanche vs Canucks betting odds.
Four of Vancouver’s last five games landed under the total.
Last Meeting
Ryan Johansen scored twice, and Colorado limited Vancouver to 25 shots on goal in the host Avalanche’s 3-1 win. An empty-net goal by Artturi Lehkonen with 28 seconds left to play allowed Colorado to cover against the puck line as the 1.5-goal favorite at home.
It was the third time in the last four games between the Avalanche and the Canucks to land under the total.
Avalanche vs Canucks Betting Preview
Colorado should have plenty of momentum coming into this matchup after a four-point game from Mikko Rantanen. Valeri Nichushkin had a goal and two assists in his second game back after missing nearly two months, and the newly acquired Casey Mittelstadt scored his first goal for the Avalanche. Mittelstadt is priced at +350 to score a goal in this game and +131 to record a point.
Despite both teams featuring high-scoring stars, just two of the last seven meetings between Vancouver and Canucks landed over the total.
Vancouver is 4-1 in its last five games, while Colorado takes a four-game winning streak into this matchup as the Avalanche looks to move ahead of Winnipeg and into second place in the Central Division.
Colorado moved a game over .500 on the road with the win against the Flames, while Vancouver is third in the Western Conference with 21 home wins.
Forwards Artturi Lehkonen and Zach Parise are questionable for Colorado, while forward Logan O’Connor was recently ruled out for the season.
Vancouver will be without its No. 1 goalie, Thatcher Demko, while defenseman Tyler Myers and forward Dakota Joshua are also out.
The total has gone under in five of Vancouver’s last seven games against Western Conference teams, with the total set at 6.5 for this matchup. Going with this game to go under the total could be the best bet, even though a quick look at the NHL rankings shows that Colorado leads the NHL in goals scored per game,n goals scored per game and Vancouver ranks third in scoring offense.
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