The 2024 NHL Winter Classic will be played at the home stadium of the baseball team Seattle Mariners.
Chris Driedger and company took to the ice at T-Mobile Park on Sunday. AOP / USA TODAY Sports
The most interesting game of the day
The main event of the day is the NHL annual Winter Classic outdoor match. This time, the match will be played in an indoor baseball stadium in Seattle. Opposite are Seattle Kraken and Vegas Golden Knights.
A short sampling of the last ten Winter Classics does not have a particular home advantage in these games. The home team has won four of the ten previous winter classics.
The balance of power in tonight’s match will have a lot to do with whether Vegas’ number one goalkeeper can do it Adin Hill to play – and if you can, then in what condition.
Hill, who has been injured since the beginning of December, went to try out on 18.12. Against Ottawa, but at that time the energy was not enough to play for more than a few minutes. The assumption is that Hill is not yet in the best possible mood for the game either – hardly even in the playing lineup.
Vegas’ second goaltender by Logan Thompson this season’s save percentage is 90.2 and goals conceded average is 2.80, while Hill’s are 93.3% and 1.93.
Seattle, which is on a four-match winning streak, is currently in a clear advantage in terms of momentum. Vegas has lost five of their last seven games. However, the special match will fire up the reigning Stanley Cup champion better than the few games before Christmas.
Seattle lacks forwards in the optimal lineup Jaden Schwartz and Pierre-Edouard Bellemare. However, there is no need to put a lot of weight on these absences.
Vegas’ field players are missing defenders due to injuries Shea Theodore and Ben Hutton.
Basically, Vegas has the better quality of the teams, but their rather weak performances in the last few matches skew the balance of power in the home team’s direction.
Seattle has been successful recently by managing to keep the number of goals in their matches low.
In terms of betting, the best odds for Seattle’s low-goal successes can be obtained from the Asian equalizer in actual game time. Seatlle+0.25 with a coefficient of 1.89 is close to playable.
The Seattle–Vegas match starts at 10:00 p.m.
The best betting tip of the day
Monday’s best betting ideas can be found on the Championship match between Sheffield W and Hull. Here, with the current coefficients, both the home team’s stretches and the lack of goals are interesting.
Sheffield W has changed since becoming a Manager in mid-October Danny Röhlin thus clearly becoming a tighter team at the beginning of the season.
In terms of betting, it has been particularly significant in Sheffield’s last matches that the results of the matches have been a lot of game events and more goals than expected. In the team’s five previous matches, the goal nets have sounded a total of 13 times, even though the total number of goals expected in the matches has been only 7.5 goals.
Hull is a team with a bigger variance in terms of goals and expectations, but here I believe that Sheffield, as the home team on the rise, will pretty much determine the nature of the match.
Due to Sheffield W’s couple of new lineup absences, the lack of goals becomes a more palatable case here. My estimate for under 2.5 goals is 58% and the 1.72 multiplier offered by it is exactly a borderline case.
Sheffield W–Hull kicks off at 19:15.
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