The Toronto Maple Leafs will be looking to extend their lead atop the North Division standings to seven points with a win on Saturday night when they host the slumping Montreal Canadiens as -125 favourites on the NHL odds at sportsbooks monitored by OddsShark.com.
Toronto is coming off a 4-2 victory in Montreal on Wednesday and now rides a four-game win streak into Saturday night’s matchup at Scotiabank Arena.
The first team in the NHL to reach 10 wins, the Maple Leafs are on an 8-1-0 run with each of the victories on their current win streak coming by multi-goal margins. Toronto also sports a steady 6-1-0 home record while averaging four goals per game. However, with the Maple Leafs allowing just 2.14 goals per game on home ice, the UNDER has gone 4-2-1 on the totals at betting sites in those contests.
Losers in three of their past four games, the Canadiens arrive in Toronto as +105 underdogs. The highest scoring team in the NHL during a torrid 7-1-2 start, the Canadiens have scored just six total goals during their current 1-3-0 run. Montreal followed up Wednesday’s loss to the Maple Leafs by falling 3-0 to the visiting Edmonton Oilers on Thursday, which marked the club’s second shutout defeat in seven outings. However, the Canadiens have scored 10 times over their past two visits to Toronto, capped by a 5-4 overtime loss on opening night.
Earlier on Saturday the Winnipeg Jets aim for a seventh straight win over the Ottawa Senators when they hit the ice for an afternoon clash at Bell MTS Place as heavy -225 favourites. The Jets topped Ottawa 5-1 on Thursday in the first date of their two-game series, and have averaged 4.83 goals per game during their current win streak. Winnipeg has also won three straight on home ice, and sits just one point back of Montreal and Edmonton in the race for second place in the North Division.
With Thursday’s defeat, the Senators have now lost four games in a row, scoring just five total goals during that stretch. Listed as +185 underdogs for Saturday afternoon, the Senators sport a dismal 1-7-0 road record, and have just four wins in their past 30 away contests.
And elsewhere on the Saturday NHL odds, the Calgary Flames will vie for a fourth straight win as they battle the freefalling Vancouver Canucks as -135 road favourites. The Flames have posted wins in five of their last seven contests, while the Canucks look to avoid losing eight in a row for the first time since November 2018 as they return to action as +115 underdogs.
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