Washington Capitals vs Montreal Canadiens 10/15/22 NHL Picks, Predictions, Odds

The Montreal Canadiens and the Washington Capitals meet in NHL action from Capital One Arena on Saturday night.

The Montreal Canadiens will be out to bounce back from a 3-0 loss to Detroit last time out, falling to 1-1 on the year. Cole Caufield has a team-high 2 goals and Nick Suzuki has a pair of assists while Sean Monahan and Josh Anderson each have a goal this season. Jordan Harris, David Savard and Kirby Dach each have a goal as well for the Habs up to this point in the year.

The Washington Capitals will hope to bounce back and snag their first win after falling to 0-2 with a 3-2 loss to Toronto last time out. Nic Dowd has a pair of points with a goal and an assist while Erik Gustafsson has a pair of assists. Conor Sheary, Marcus Johansson and Anthony Mantha each have a goal while Trevor van Riemsdyk, Lars Eller and T.J. Oshie each have an assist as well this season.

Montreal is 7-21 in their last 28 games against the Metropolitan division and 2-5 in their last 7 games played on no rest while the over is 5-1-1 in their last 7 games overall. Washington is 1-5 in their last 6 home games and 5-0 in their last 5 Saturday games while the over is 8-3-2 in their last 13 home games.

I get the case to be made either way here, but I’m backing the over. These are two teams with some serious goaltending issues and I don’t want to back either side in that case but I do trust both teams to get on the score sheet. The last three meetings averaged well over eight goals combined per game and I think we see something similar here, so give me the over.