HIFK will play against Lukko on Monday in the semi-finals.
Niilo Halonen (pictured) is HIFK’s number one guard due to Michael Garteig’s injury. Matti Raivio / AOP
The most interesting game of the day
The culmination of this league’s regular season season is unprecedentedly exciting and multi-threaded.
For their part, the final slightly different number of matches for the teams and the determination of the order according to the average score will bring their own additional taste to the soup. The only match of the evening is extremely important for both the home team HIFK and the away team Luko.
HIFK play for the home front of the semi-finals. The team’s already quite obvious place among the four has been badly compromised with three consecutive losses.
HIFK has been unlucky in terms of results in all of its previous three loss matches. Even in the last 0-4 loss game, HIFK won 2-3 times against the Jukure. In the extra time for Ilves, the goal of the 2–3-lost match went to HIFK 4–2, and before that, in the 3–2-JYP loss, HIFK won the goal expected 3–4.
In the JYP match, HIFK was clearly plagued by attitude difficulties, but in the other two, the theme that had plagued the team for almost the entire season was repeated. Efficiency and sharpness are lacking in gaming and especially finishing.
In the Jukurit match, a new last-minute confirmation debuted again at HIFK Miikka Salomäki. While the names on HIFK’s roster are another more handsome read, I also see the flip side with plenty of new players.
The cohesion of the team and the operation of the game “straight from the backbone” is still strongly at the stage. It shows that the decisive final pass goes skewed by a cent. Of course, the same negative effect has accumulated on the team’s play due to numerous injury absences.
HIFK will be in a hurry to get their game for their gangs, even for the playoffs.
HIFK is fighting with TPS for the home advantage of the semi-finals. Each has only one match left. If TPS wins SaiPan away on Tuesday (a three or two point win), all HIFK’s struggle against Lock on Monday is futile, and TPS is fourth.
If HIFK wins by three points on Monday, it will be fourth unless TPS gets at least two points from Lappeenranta on Tuesday. With a two-point win on Monday, HIFK’s chances instead of a fourth will rest on TPS not getting a single point from SaiPalta.
In a loss on Monday, HIFK is automatically out of four.
The lock has already secured its place among the top ten, but for those suffering from absenteeism and match congestion, it would be essential to get into the top six. This way, the team would avoid the first round of the playoffs and get a rest under the quarterfinals.
There are still two matches left in the lockout of the regular season, and there are so many different scenarios left in its chances of six that their probabilities are not worth opening it up to in more detail here. In any case, on Monday, Luko has an absolute motivation for a full three points.
Figuratively speaking, the fact that both have to win the match in practice during the actual playing time means that the risk levels of both increase at the end of the match at the latest. Lock plays a very active and bold game anyway. When HIFK’s defensive play – especially the number one goalkeeper Michael Garteigin with injury – is quite fumbling at the moment, dare to anticipate a match despite its importance possibly overwhelming.
In terms of betting, the best long bet search for the match is more than 5.0 goals, despite a seemingly low odds of 1.65, for the final result of the match (including overtime and winning shots).
HIFK-Lock starts at 6.30 pm.
The best bet of the day
Monday is a bettingly challenging day.
In general, there are quite a few matches, and Veikkaus has managed to multiply the odds well in the NHL this time as well. For both the Minnesota – Vegas and Colorado – Edmonton matches, it would make sense to play or hint at unders on the odds.
The matches don’t look particularly unimaginative in advance, but on the other hand, they both have elements that may make the games lesser than statistics and expectations this time around.
Minnesota is one of the NHL’s most goal-scoring teams – at home on the 5.5-goal line-by-match line, the most goal-rich in the series. As many as 81 percent (22/27) of its home games have ended in a score of more than 5.5 goals.
Vegas is one of the average teams in the series in terms of goals. 59 percent (38/64) of its matches have ended with a score of more than 5.5.
Normally, Minnesota-Vegas would taste rich, but right now Vegas has so many injury concerns for top strikers that it has been forced to change its way of playing a little more defensively. The 5-1 and 5–3 wins in recent matches from Los Angeles and Florida give a slightly wrong picture of the team’s offensive power.
Against Minnesota, the 1.69 promised for a goal under 6.5 in actual time is somehow an interesting multiplier.
The Colorado-Edmonton match also feels like a first-place finish for two strong offensive teams. Here again, however, the coefficients are set from that very starting point, which may not be quite as likely a scenario as is generally thought.
While Edmonton’s strengths are still in offensive play, they are Jay Woodcroft under the auspices of defense play has intensified significantly Dave Tippettin from time to time. Colorado can also play very close defensive play when needed.
I also see a lot of scenarios in the match for a lesser match than expected.
In the end, as the best choice of these options, I picked up the odds of 1.61 offered for a goal-less-than-7.0 goal in a Colorado – Edmonton match. Colorado-Edmonton begins at 3:35 p.m.
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Total balance for the year’s games: 19/32/109%
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