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Old 13-01-2007, 13:03   #6 (permalink)
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Los Angeles Kings @ St Louis Blues (19:05 GMT)
Look at the game long and hard, seems nothing stands out, but then in a minute couple of nice things just poped out...okay lets go (if you dont mind ill c/p some magazine stuff and add the link, so you can also see it for yourself).

Blues have new coach and he rejuvenated (hope i spelled ok) the Blues team
Following in the footsteps of Chicago, Columbus and Phoenix, the Blues have turned things around under new head coach Andy Murray with an 8-2-1 stretch heading into Saturday afternoon's game against Los Angeles.
Morale in the Blues team has risen - you will see they are even thinking about the playoffs
The word "playoffs" has made its way in the dressing room.
"I think the players are using it," said Murray. "I told them if they want to check the standings that's fine. Really our only focus right now is to try and get better and if we get better, you might be playing something in March. Source
LA Kings are without their two top goalies, as Clouthier (anyway thats a good thing for them) and Garon are on injured list, so the starte tonight will be Barry Brust
The Kings on Friday placed Mathieu Garon on injured reserve with a finger injury, which he suffered a day earlier in a 5-2 loss to the San Jose Sharks. To replace Garon on the roster, Los Angeles recalled Yutaka Fukufuji from Manchester of the American Hockey League. Source
Trends for this match are mixed, but 3/4 in favour of St. Louis tlee me that im barking in the right direction

Kings are 5-1 in the last 6 meetings - ok i dont like that one

Favorite is 5-1 in the last 6 meetings.

Home team is 11-5 in the last 16 meetings.

Kings are 2-6 in the last 8 meetings in St. Louis.
Of course then we have also one day of rest more.

So, those edges and the fact that these two teams doesnt like to play OT beeween themselves makes me go for St. Louis Blues regulation win @ 2.1 Ladbrokes but with medium stakes, as apart from those edges i cant find anything else separatng those two: 5/10
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