The Vancouver Canucks barely escaped the last round when they let the Chicago
Blackhawks sneak back into the series. After failing to eliminate the Nashville
Predators on home ice Saturday, the Canucks must head to Nashville nursing a 3-2
series lead and NHL betting fans
are wondering if the Canucks are once again flirting with disaster. Game 6 of
the series gets underway Monday night. Vancouver is still a 9/4 favorite on Stanley Cup odds, but the Canucks certainly don’t look like a runaway juggernaut after a 4-3 loss on Saturday. The biggest concern is Daniel Sedin and Henrik Sedin, who simply can’t get going. They’ve been mostly invisible against Nashville. They made their presence felt on Saturday, but not in a good way. The twins were shut out for the third time in the series and, to make matters
worse, they combined to go minus-7 on the night. The Sedins dominated during the
regular season, racking up 198 points between the two of them, but they’ve
managed just 17 points in 12 games during the playoffs. They have just five
points in the series against Nashville. While the twins are struggling, Ryan Kesler has been turning
into a playoff legend. Kesler has five goals in his past three games, including
two in Game 5. Kesler took a puck to the face and lost a tooth but, after
getting his lip sewn back up, he returned to the game to score a late
third-period goal. If the Sedins were playing half as well as Kesler, Vancouver
would be unstoppable. After scoring just six times in the first four games, Game 5 looks like an
offensive breakthrough for the Predators on paper. Their four-goal effort is a
little misleading, however. A couple of the goals were very flukey, and the
Preds took only 23 shots on goal. That needs to improve dramatically, especially
with Roberto Luongo sometimes looking shaky in net for
Vancouver—just about anything might sneak past him at this point. The oddsmakers apparently aren’t believing in a comeback by the Predators, as
they still have the second-worst Stanley Cup
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