Tuesday, 14 January 2014

Vancouver Canucks vs Anaheim Mighty Ducks: Date, Time, Live Stream, TV Info and Preview

by Stat Track

The Vancouver Canucks travel to Anaheim to play the Mighty Ducks at 10:35 PM on Wednesday, January 15, 2014. Anaheim is the favorite in this matchup, laying -1.5 points here at home. The Total has been posted at Over/Under 5.5.

Before getting to specific team details, let's have a look at the recent games in this series to see if we can identify any NHL sports betting trends to assist in making the right pick in this game.

When looking at the last 55 games in this series, we can see the home team has won 26 games compared to 29 wins for the road team. Average points scored per game for the home team in the Vancouver/Anaheim series is 2.9 ppg while the vistor has put up 2.8 ppg, creating an average margin of victory of 0.1 favoring the home team.

As stated, the exact advantage spanning the last 55 games represents a median average advantage for the home team in this series of 0.1 ppg. That represents a value number of -1.4 when meassured against the offered line of -1.5, suggesting a wager on Vancouver makes the most sense - at least, when looking at betting against the number according to the historical series trends.

The average Total points scored spanning the last 55 games between the Canucks and the Mighty Ducks is 5.7 per game. That creates a face value cushion of 0.2 against the line, suggesting a bet of Over 5.5 may be in order. At least it appears as such on first impression when compared to the series history.

Now let's take a look at the series history in this exact situation, with Vancouver as the road team and with Anaheim as the home team.

Source:- http://www.procappers.com/previews/16842660/Vancouver-Canucks-v-Anaheim-Mighty-Ducks.html