Montreal Canadiens vs Edmonton Oilers 1/29/22 NHL Picks, Predictions, Odds

The Edmonton Oilers and the Montreal Canadiens meet in NHL action from the Bell Center on Saturday night.

The Edmonton Oilers will look to build on a 3-2 win over Nashville last time out. Leon Draisaitl leads the Oilers in scoring with 59 points while Connor McDavid is right behind with 58 points, with Draisaitl logging a team-high 29 goals and 30 assists while McDavid has a team-high 37 assists this season. Ryan Nugent-Hopkins has 27 points with 24 assists while Jesse Puljujarvi has 25 points and Zach Hyman has 11 goals. Mikko Koskinen’s seen the majority of Edmonton’s action in goal, going 15-8-1 with a 3.18 GAA and a .900 save percentage this season.

The Montreal Canadiens will hope to bounce back after a 5-4 loss to Anaheim last time out. Nick Suzuki leads the Habs in scoring with 24 points including a team-high 8 goals and 16 assists while Tyler Toffoli also has 15 assists with his 22 points and Josh Anderson’s posted a team-high 8 goals this season. Jake Allen has seen the majority of the action in goal for Montreal, going 5-16-2 with a 3.15 GAA and a .901 save percentage this season.

Edmonton is 1-5 in their last 6 road games and 0-6 in their last 6 games against the Eastern Conference while the under is 3-0-1 in their last 4 road games. Montreal is 1-7 in their last 8 games against the Pacific division and 0-4 in their last 4 Saturday games while the over is 5-1 in their last 6 games as an underdog.

I don’t want to back either one of these teams right now, as Montreal is Montreal let’s be honest and the Oilers need more than a couple of wins against slumping teams to be back, but we can’t help that here. Instead, I’m looking at the over. Edmonton’s been scoring goals for fun as of late and while Montreal’s had their issues, they’ve been competitive as well in recent games so give me the over here in a back and forth game.