Carolina - Ottawa (Win 1)SKA has had an extremely poor start to the season, few expected the team to have only 16 points after 15 games. But in recent games, SKA is starting to restore the status quo. And it's worth noting that SKA's discipline has noticeably improved - in the last game, the team received only 4 penalty minutes.
Lokomotiv has taken advantage of the crisis with SKA and CSKA, the team is currently the leader in the Western Conference. It's worth noting that Lokomotiv went without a single loss on home ice until the last away game, but still lost in Minsk in a shootout.
This season SKA and Lokomotiv have already played 1 game between them, in Yaroslavl Lokomotiv won 3:2, the game was equal, but in the last period SKA missed 2 pucks, playing in the minority. Today we also expect a hard fought game with a lot of pucks.
Prediction: at least 5 goals to be scored. We recommend the "Over 4.5" bet, odds 2.3
