Ottawa Senators vs Colorado Avalanche 12/4/21 NHL Picks, Predictions, Odds
Colorado Avalanche (12-7-1) vs. Ottawa Senators (5-15-1)
December 4, 2021 7:00 pm EDT
The Line: Ottawa Senators +225 / Colorado Avalanche -275; Over/Under: -6
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The Colorado Avalanche and the Ottawa Senators meet in NHL action from the Canadian Tire Center on Saturday night.
The Colorado Avalanche will look to build on their 4-1 win over Montreal last time out. Nazem Kadri leads the Avs in scoring with 30 points including a team-high 21 assists while Gabriel Landeskog has 22 points and Cale Makar has 21 points with Landeskog logging 7 goals, 15 assists and a +13 plus/minus, while Devon Toews has a team-best +15 plus/minus rating. Makar has 10 goals and 11 assists while Mikko Rantanen has a team-high 10 goals as well this season. Darcy Kuemper has gone 9-5 with a 2.84 GAA and a .903 save percentage this season in goal for Colorado.
The Ottawa Senators will look to add to their 3-2 win over Carolina last time out. Drake Batherson leads the Sens in scoring with 17 points including a team-high 10 assists while Josh Norris has 15 points with a team-high 9 goals and 6 assists. Brady Takchu has 13 points with 5 goals and 8 assists and Tyler Ennis and Connor Brown each have 11 points. Filip Gustavsson’s gone 3-6-1 in goal for Ottawa, putting up a 3.54 GAA and an .899 save percentage while Anton Forsberg is 2-4 with a 3.98 GAA and a .900 save percentage.
Colorado is 44-19 in their last 63 games overall and 43-14 in their last 57 games as a favorite while the over is 6-1-1 in their last 8 games following a win. Ottawa is 1-8 in their last 9 home games and 5-16 in their last 21 games overall while the under is 3-0-1 in their last 4 games following a win.
I’m not sure which side we see from either team here, but On thing I’m banking on is goals and lots of them. These two teams just met when Ottawa returned from their COVID stoppage and we saw 12 goals combined in that game. I’ not sure we see double-digits again, but these two teams are more than capable of combining for enough offense to get us well over this number.