The Vegas Golden Knights have been super unlucky over their last four games.
They’ve continued to outshoot and outchance their opponents, yet the scoreboard reminds you they lost three of those four games. In fact, they only scored four goals over that stretch and were shutout twice. It’s an extremely strange pattern that a hockey team good enough to play in the Western Conference Final can usually break.
Then again, this is far from a usual year. But I digress…[[ad:athena]]
I watched the entire third period of Vegas-Dallas Game 1 twice. It makes absolutely no sense that Vegas didn’t get one puck past Anton Khudobin. They outshot Dallas 13-to-2 in that period, yet Khudobin stopped them all. He was barraged by shots from every line and almost every angle and he survived it all.
It was truly an “on his head” performance by the Dallas goalie.
Unlike the Tampa Bay Lightning out East, Vegas is not a sexy team to bet on right now. This makes betting on them a lot more cost efficient in the betting markets. Granted, Dallas is a much better team than Chicago and Vancouver, but these prices are getting pretty cheap. The Knights have been a -200 favorite six times in the postseason and if they weren’t -200, they were damn close in the last two rounds.
In Game 2 tonight against Dallas, Vegas opened -144 and the market currently sits -160 at PointsBet Sportsbook. My personal preferences keep me far away from -160, especially after missing the initial move to the Vegas side. So let’s look at Vegas to win the game in regulation (+100).
My handicap remains the same – the Knights are a very good hockey team that needs to see a puck or two hit the back of the net to snap out of this funk. They are too deep and too talented not to start seeing results from their hard work. I’m also betting on them bringing that much needed energy and urgency tonight. And maybe some of those pucks off the posts and crossbar actually go where they’re supposed to.
Play on the Golden Knights +100 in regulation.
