Can Shorthanded Devils Top Favored Hurricanes?
Devils vs Hurricanes NHL Odds Has Host Carolina Favored to Seal the Deal
Devils Hope to Make Themselves Right At Home
Carolina is coming off a win over the Eastern Conference-leading Boston Bruins and now welcomes division rival New Jersey to Raleigh. The Devils vs Hurricanes NHL odds favor the Hurricanes to pick up their 14th home win of the season.
Carolina has won four of the last five meetings against New Jersey with three of those victories coming at home with those matchups happening in the 2023 Stanley Cup playoffs.
Four consecutive games between the Devils and Hurricanes went over the total before the most recent matchup fell just under the 5.5-goal total.
Carolina is priced at -160 to win the game according to the NHL betting lines with New Jersey currently with +140 odds to pick up the road win.
A quick peek at the NHL playoff standings shows that Carolina is sitting in second place in the Metropolitan Division while New Jersey is two games out of the final playoff spot in the Eastern Conference.
Carolina is fourth at +1000 in the odds of winning the Stanley Cup while New Jersey is 12th with +2200 championship odds.
Keep on reading for more about the showdown between New Jersey and Carolina.
Devils vs Hurricanes
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Records: Devils 24-18-2/Hurricanes 26-15-5
Location: PNC Arena, Raleigh, NC
Streaming: Watch Live Sports
Devils Trying to Do More with Less
New Jersey is without some key NHL players as the Devils look to make a push to get into playoff position.
Jack Hughes, one of the NHL leaders this season in points per game, remains sidelined with an upper-body NHL injury. Defensemen Dougie Hamilton, Jonas Siegenthaler, and Brendan Smith are also out.
Forward Michael McLeod and defenseman Cal Foote have been granted indefinite leaves of absence. That could factor in the Devils vs Hurricanes NHL odds.
New Jersey may get winger Ondrej Palat back for this game as the Devils go after back-to-back wins for the second time this season after topping Vegas in overtime.
The total has gone under in four of New Jersey’s last six games.
Martinook Delivers for Carolina
While some of his fellow forwards receive more attention, veteran winger Jordan Martinook is producing at a high clip for the Hurricanes.
His game-winning goal late in the third period on Wednesday was his fifth goal in the last six games.
Carolina is 5-1 in the last six games when Martinook scores a goal. He could be an enticing option when it comes to the NHL picks and parlays.
Martinook has two goals and an assist in his last seven regular-season games against New Jersey. However, he had three goals and seven assists in the five playoff games in the New Jersey series.
The total has gone over in nine of Carolina’s last 13 games.
Last Meeting
Jesper Fast scored a power-play goal in overtime as the Carolina Hurricanes eliminated New Jersey in the 2023 playoff series with a 3-2 win in Game 5. The game landed under the 5.5-goal total. That was the only game among the five to be decided by one goal.
It was the sixth time in the last eight games between the Devils and Hurricanes that the game went over the total.
Keep that in mind when looking at the Devils vs Hurricanes NHL odds.
Devils vs Hurricanes Betting Preview
New Jersey is 5-2-1 in its last eight road games and hope to continue that trend with a win on the road against division rival Carolina.
Keep an eye on the status of Carolina winger Andrei Svechnikov as there is a chance he could return to the lineup after missing the last two games. New Jersey has struggled at times to win on the home. However, the Devils are tied for the second most road wins among Eastern Conference teams.
Neither NHL team has done much on the power play in the recent head-to-head matchups with Carolina killing off 93% of the New Jersey power plays while New Jersey has allowed Carolina to score 10% of the time with the man advantage over the last 10 meetings.
Carolina is 24-17-5 as a favorite with New Jersey just 2-9-1 as the underdog this hockey season.
New Jersey has covered in 12 of its 22 road games with 13 of those NHL matchups going over the total.
The total has gone over in 13 of New Jersey’s last 18 games against Metropolitan Division teams. The total is set at 6.5 for this game after the previous nine matchups had totals of either 5.5 or 6.
With so many missing pieces for New Jersey, go with Carolina to pick up where it left off in the 2023 playoffs and come away with the win.
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