NHL Predictions and Best Bets:<\/p>\n
Here are tonight\u2019s NHL predictions and best bets for Game 4 of the Western Conference Final between the Colorado Avalanche and Vegas Golden Knights.<\/p>\n
Colorado Avalanche (-115) at Vegas Golden Knights (-105)<\/p>\n
Total 6 (Over, -120)
Golden Knights lead series 3-0<\/p>\n
8 p.m. ET<\/p>\n
The Colorado Avalanche need to win four games in a row to advance, and it starts tonight with Game 4 at T-Mobile Arena. Before the Western Conference Final, Vegas was 33-1 to sweep the series. The Avs finished with the league\u2019s best record in the regular season and entered the Western Conference Final having lost just one playoff game. But they\u2019ve lost three consecutive games in regulation for the first time this season (regulation and playoffs).\u00a0<\/p>\n
The big question facing the Avalanche tonight is the status of Nathan MacKinnon, who was injured in Game 3 when blocking a Shea Theodore shot in the second period. Avalanche coach Jared Bednar had this to say after the game: \u201cHe was clearly in a ton of pain. I\u2019ve been here 10 years, and I\u2019ve seen Nate lay on the ice twice. For him to be able to come back out, get some work done late in the second period and intermission and to be able to come back and help us on the power play and empty-net situations, if that\u2019s all he can do, then we\u2019ll take it. It\u2019s better than anything else we can put on the ice.\u201d Even if MacKinnon plays, he may be limited. Cale Makar gutted it out in Game 3 and Val Nichushkin missed the final 22:58 of the game with a lower-body injury. It\u2019s unclear if he is available tonight.<\/p>\n
I am going to roll again with many of the same prop plays I had in Game 3. Brett Howden and Pavel Dorofeyev lead the playoffs with 10 goals. Howden has goals in two of the three games of the Western Conference Final and nine of the last 12 games overall. Dorofeyev (denied a goal in Game 3) has gone back-to-back games without a goal but does have six goals in his last six games. Captain Mark Stone returned to the lineup in Game 3 and didn\u2019t miss a beat, picking up a goal and an assist. Tomas Hertl, who scored the winning goal in Game 3, has points in five of his last six games. The four players\u2019 shot-on-goal prop (Gabriel Landeskog, Nazem Kadri, Mitch Marner, Dorofeyev all for 2+ shots) that I gave out in Game 3 was a winner, and I am going to add Brent Burns to this quartet as it provides a much greater return. Burns has two shots on goal in five consecutive games and six of his last seven versus the Golden Knights.<\/p>\n
NHL Predictions and Best Bets:
Brett Howden anytime goal (+330) \u2013 \u00bc unit
Pavel Dorofeyev anytime goal (+195) \u2013 \u00bc unit
Brent Burns\/Nazem Kadri\/Gabriel Landeskog\/Mitch Marner\/Pavel Dorofeyev all 2+ shots on goal (+360) \u2013 \u00bd unit
Brent Burns 2+ shots on goal (-110) \u2013 1 unit
Vegas Golden Knights Over \u00bd power play goal (-115) \u2013 \u00bd unit
Tomas Hertl\/Mark Stone point parlay (+152) \u2013 1 unit
Vegas Golden Knights\u00a0 -1.5 goals (+205) \u2013 \u00bd unit<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NHL Predictions and Best Bets: Here are tonight\u2019s NHL predictions and best bets for Game 4 of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30997,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[831,385,127138,127139,99],"class_list":["post-666908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-featured","tag-nhl","tag-nhl-best-bets","tag-nhl-predictions","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=666908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}