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Date: Thursday, April 09, 2015 Time: 7:00PM Venue: Madison Square Garden Opening Line: TBA.@NYRangers clinch the President’s Trophy for best record in the NHL. The last time they won it (1993-94), they also won the Stanley Cup.
— ESPN Stats & Info (@ESPNStatsInfo) April 8, 2015
The Senators ended the month of March with a 3-game losing skid that looked set to kill their playoff hopes. How they have responded since then is nothing short of amazing, as each of the 5 games that followed went beyond regulation. The Sens picked up the extra point in 4 of those outings, leaving them sitting tied with the Boston Bruins and a single point behind the Pittsburgh Penguins for the Wild Card in the Eastern Conference. The biggest of all those recent wins came at home to Pittsburgh on Tuesday night. The Penguins had built up what looked like an unassailable 3-goal lead before the Senators did what has become habit of late, which was to storm back to score 4 unanswered goals, including the winner in OT. That win kept their playoff hopes very much alive.
The New York Rangers recently did some celebrating of their own, as they locked up the President’s Trophy for the best overall record in the NHL. The Rangers have been nothing short of great all year, so this trophy doesn’t really come as a surprise. They are top 3 in goals for and against, and top 5 in penalty killing. The only area where they have not been so great this season is on the power play, but they score so often 5 on 5 that it hasn’t really hurt them. They have a 40+ goal scorer in Rick Nash, and a goaltending duo (Lundqvist and Talbot) that is the envy of the league. In short, this is a team that is a legitimate contender to lift the Stanley Cup once the final buzzer sounds in the playoffs.
Key Betting Trends
NY Rangers is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games The total has gone OVER in 8 of NY Rangers’s last 10 games NY Rangers is 8-3 SU in its last 11 games at home The total has gone OVER in 5 of NY Rangers’s last 5 games at home NY Rangers is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games when playing Ottawa Ottawa is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games The total has gone OVER in 8 of Ottawa’s last 11 games Ottawa is 9-3 SU in its last 12 games on the road The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Ottawa’s last 5 games on the road Ottawa is 1-4 SU in its last 5 games when playing NY Rangers
