Red Wings vs. Penguins: NHL Best Bets & Preview Tonight

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00:00Let's get to some action tonight on the ice. Pete, we'll take a look at Detroit and Pittsburgh

00:07tonight. If we look at the FanBull Sportsbook, the odds opened up as a minus 134 favorite

00:10up to minus 140 for Pittsburgh tonight. Red Wings coming into the season. Expectations,

00:16we'll see how they finish. 6-7 right now. The Penguins 6-9 right now. What are the expectations

00:21tonight between Detroit and Pittsburgh for you, Pete?

00:25These two teams are so Jekyll and Hyde right now. Pittsburgh's had some ugly losses this

00:29season. They really got embarrassed the other day by Dallas, who I mentioned is really one

00:35of the deepest, if not the single deepest team in the entire league. They can't hang

00:39with teams like that anymore. They can hang, though, with the Detroit Red Wings, who are

00:44very topsy-turvy. They almost made the playoffs last year, but had a pretty bad last couple

00:49of weeks of the season. I can't really fully trust Detroit at this point in time to make

00:56the playoffs. So yeah, Pittsburgh, I think, is in a good bounce back spot here. They still

01:01have, you know, Crosby and Malkin have been playing a lot of the season so far on the

01:06same line, which is not something that we've seen in years past. The third wheel on that

01:11line is Ricard Raquel, who has been productive, has a good shot volume. So maybe by association

01:17to Crosby and Malkin, you look at Ricard Raquel in the props market and stuff like that for

01:22goals or shots on goal any given night.

01:25Pete, also coming up for the Wednesday afternoon slate, the Maple Leafs going across to Washington

01:30to take on OV in the Capitals. Expected to be a close one. Both teams have been playing

01:35some really strong hockey, but do the Maple Leafs have that offense and that juice in

01:40trying to go with Ovechkin in the Capitals, who seem to be putting up a lot of goals?

01:45Yeah, keep an eye on whether Austin Matthews plays in this game. He's missed the last number

01:50of games here and a bad loss for for Toronto against the Ottawa Senators, who are a non

01:57playoff team, you would say, but can catch it by surprise any given night. So wouldn't

02:02be surprised to see Toronto bounce back here, even without Matthews. They've they've played

02:07pretty well, generally speaking, whether it was last postseason without Matthews for a

02:11couple of games. Remember, they still rallied in first game seven against the Bruins without

02:16Matthews. So they're capable at that plus number to compete in that game, even though

02:22the Capitals have been hot and stuff like that. I feel like Wash, I mean, Toronto still

02:28has like probably other than OV, the four or five best players on both ends of the ice

02:33in that game.

02:35Couple other games on the card tonight, Pete. Hurricanes and the Hockey Club Kings, Avalanche

02:39Golden Knights and the Ducks. Any looks from those three games or which one's your favorite

02:42game?

02:44Hurricanes, Utah is interesting. I mentioned Utah's dealing with injuries to a couple of

02:49key defensemen. Sean Dursey out for four plus months and they got Sergeyev in the offseason.

02:57He's been kind of like a man on an island so far because John Marino, who came over

03:01that same day, also is injured for four plus months. So they're reeling a little bit since

03:06a hot since a hot start to the season. Carolina, I would expect them to probably win that game.

03:13Their offense is rolling right now in the props market. Look at guys like Jack Roslevic,

03:18Martin Nietzsche. These guys have been some of the most productive players in the entire

03:23NHL over the past two or three weeks of the season, and nobody really seems to be talking

03:27about them. Carolina is also a very good road team.