Buffalo Sabres (8-12-3) vs. Carolina Hurricanes (15-6-1)
December 4, 2021 7:30 pm EDT
The Line: Carolina Hurricanes -275 / Buffalo Sabres +225; Over/Under: -5.5
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The Buffalo Sabres and the Carolina Hurricanes meet in NHL action from the PNC Arena on Saturday night.
The Buffalo Sabres will be out to rebound from a 7-4 loss at the hands of Florida in their last game. Tage Thompson leads Buffalo in scoring with 16 points including a team-high 10 goals while Kyle Okposo also has 16 points with 10 assists. Jeff Skinner and Rasmus Dahlin eahch have 15 points with Dahlin logging a team-high 12 assists while Skinner has 8 goals on the year. Dustin Tokarski’s gone 4-5-3 with a 3.28 GAA and a .903 save percentage in goal for Buffalo while Aaron Dell is 0-5 with a 4.70 GAA and an .868 save percentage.
The Carolina Hurricanes will try to rebound from a 3-2 loss to the Ottawa Senators in their last game. Sebastian Aho leads the ‘Canes in scoring with 22 points while Andrei Svechnikov is right behind with 21, with Aho logging 10 goals and 12 assists while Svechnikov has 12 assists as well. Tony DeAngelo’s got 19 points with a team-high 15 assists and has a team-high +10 plus/minus rating this season. Frederik Andersen’s seen the bulk of the action in goal for Carolina, going 11-5 with a 2.04 GAA and a .928 save percentage this season.
Buffalo is 17-46 in their last 63 games overall and 20-67 in their last 87 road games while the over is 5-2 in their last 7 games as an underdog. Carolina is 1-5 in their last 6 games overall and 15-7 in their lat 22 home games while the under is 6-1 in their last 7 games against the Atlantic division.
This amount of plus money with the Sabres is tempting, but it’s also there for a reason. The Sabres usually play well at home even when they’re struggling and they can’t even get that right heading into this game. Carolina’s got a talented lineup from top to bottom and I just think that they blow out the Sabres here. Give me Carolina -1.5 here.
