Kraken vs Avalanche Pick – NHL Predictions & Odds 1/21/23

The Colorado Avalanche and Seattle Kraken meet Saturday in NHL action at the Climate Pledge Arena. Let’s preview this game and give out a pick and prediction.

The Colorado Avalanche Preview

The Colorado Avalanche are averaging 3 goals per game and are scoring on 24 percent of their power play opportunities. Mikko Rantanen leads Colorado with 31 goals, Nathan MacKinnon has 36 assists and Cale Maker has 136 shots on goal. Defensively, the Colorado Avalanche are allowing 2.8 goals per game and are killing 75.9 percent of their opponent’s power plays. Alexandar Georgiev has allowed 83 goals on 987 shots faced, and Pavel Francouz has given up 31 goals on 374 shots.

The Seattle Kraken Preview

The Seattle Kraken are averaging 3.7 goals per game and are scoring on 20.8 percent of their power play opportunities. Jared McCann leads Seattle with 22 goals, Jordan Eberle has 25 assists, and Oliver Bjorkstrand has 115 shots on goal. Defensively, the Seattle Kraken are allowing 3.1 goals per game and are killing 69.9 percent of their opponent’s power plays. Philipp Grubauer has given up 43 goals on 384 shots faced, and Martin Jones has allowed 89 goals on 836 shots.

Trends

The Avalanche are 21-10 in their last 31 road games and 127-61 in their last 188 overall. The Kraken are 5-1 in their last 6 Saturday games and 9-2 in their last 11 overall. The under is 20-9-2 in Avalanche last 31 overall. The under is 12-4-1 in Kraken last 17 home games.

Randy’s Free Pick

The Colorado Avalanche have been hit or miss these last couple of weeks, and I’m not sure how much I like them on the end of a back to back. The Seattle Kraken not only have the rest advantage, but they’ve been playing excellent hockey over the last month or so. Getting the Kraken at home in the underdog role against anybody is hard to pass up given their current form. I’ll take the home dog.