Buffalo Sabres vs Vancouver Canucks 11/15/22 NHL Picks, Predictions, Odds

The Vancouver Canucks and the Buffalo Sabres meet in NHL action from the KeyBank Center on Tuesday night.

The Vancouver Canucks will look to rebound from a 5-2 loss to the Boston Bruins in their last game. Elias Pettersson leads the Canucks with 18 points including a team-high 12 assists with 6 goals while Bo Horvat has 17 points with a team-high 13 goals and 4 assists. J.T. Miller has 15 points with 9 goals while Quinn Hughes has 14 assists of his own. Thatcher Demko’s gone 1-8-2 with a 4.02 GAA and an .874 save percentage while Spencer Martin’s 3-1-1 with a 3.38 GAA and a .902 save percentage so far this season in goal for Vancouver.

The Buffalo Sabres will hope to snap a five-game losing skid after a 3-1 loss to Boston in their last game. Tage Thompson has a team-high 19 points with 11 goals and 8 assists while Rasmus Dahlin has 17 points with 7 goals and a team-high 10 assists. Jeff Skinner has 12 points with 9 assists and Alex Tuch has 11 points with 7 goals. Victor Olofsson also has 9 goals this season. Eric Comrie’s gone 4-6 with a 3.62 GAA and an .885 save percentage while Craig Anderson’s 3-2 with a 2.40 GAA and a .922 save percentage so far in goal for Buffalo this season.

Vancouver is 2-11 in their last 13 road games and 1-8 in their last 9 games against the Atlantic division while the over is 7-1 in their last 8 road games. Buffalo is 0-5 in their last 5 games overall and 9-2 in their last 11 games after scoring 2 goals or less in the previous game while the under is 4-1 in their last 5 games against a team with a winning percentage below .400.

I get the case to be made for backing or fading either side, but I’m looking at the over here. I don’t trust either set of goaltenders as far as I can throw them right now and I just think this is a fast-paced game where goals come in bunches. We’re looking at a 4-3 kind of game whichever way it goes at the very least. Give me the over.