On May 31, Game 7 of the National Hockey League second-round playoff series will be played between the Carolina Hurricanes and the New York Rangers. In the match, the score is tied – 3-3.
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When will the Carolina Rangers start?
The seventh game in the “Carolina” – “Rangers” series will be held on May 31 and will begin at 03:00 Moscow time.
Odds for the match “Carolina” – “Rangers”
BETCITY analysts see Carolina as the favorite for the decisive confrontation. It is recommended to bet on the success of tornadoes in normal time. 2.14ie 38% probability. Rangers win predicted by odds 2.90 (38% probability) and a draw 4.10 (24% chance).
Experts are confident that the two teams will score less than 6 goals. Total goals set as 5.5 with citations 1.70 less and 2.15 For more.
before the match
Having managed to beat the Carolinas in game six and maximize this clash, Rangers are on the brink of the cliff – the teams will play the decisive, seventh game of the series. It will take place on the home ice of the Hurricanes, who have won all games on the ice in both this series and their first-round series against Boston. This gives the Whirlwinds tremendous confidence in their abilities, but the BlueShirts have also proven that they don’t care about character and combat qualities.
In the first-round series against Pittsburgh, the team of Artemy Panarin and Igor Shesterkin “flew” into the opponent with a score of 1-3 and missed a total of 14 goals in the third and fourth games. But after that, the Rangers recovered, won three meetings in a row, and were able to go further. History repeats itself in the Carolinas: The Hurricanes took the first two games of the series, but then the New Yorkers took two games at their local Madison Square Garden. In a word, the Rangers are good with psychology and Russian goalkeeper Igor Shesterkin plays an important role in that.
It was he who was the “difference” that separated victory from defeat, which was most clearly manifested in the sixth game of the series. Shesterkin completely won the goalkeeper’s duel against his counterpart Antti Raanta, who missed a few easy goals. The Russian saved 37 shots in one game and made two assists in league history. As Panarin cleverly said after that, Shesterkin just needed to start scoring – then all his teammates would have nothing left to do, because Igor himself would do all the work for them.
But the Hurricanes have problems in the goalkeeping line and this needs a lot of attention. Despite a 3-3 score against Rangers in the series, Rod Brindamore’s team conceded twice as many goals as they scored (12 conceded, one of which was from an empty net). Antti Raanta, who had to start after Frederik Andersen’s injury, cannot be said to be a “mouse”, but the Finn is unstable, he sometimes falls short in parts where the goalkeeper has to help in the playoffs.
“Will Raanta appear in game seven from the first minutes? Give me a day to think. But, of course, it will Brindamore said at the post-match press conference after losing game number six. It is clear that the mentor will not risk recruiting the inexperienced Pyotr Kochetkov, but the coach’s response makes it clear that there are doubts about the goalkeeper.
All this coincides with the fact that the leaders of the Rangers offensive are expected to do much more. If Mika Zibanejad doesn’t deserve much criticism, Ryan Stroom, Chris Kreider and especially Artemi Panarin have been playing extremely inexpressive in terms of points scored.
“I think we should play like today in Game seven. Disciplined. We will show our best game both offensively and defensively. The key is hard to find. If there were, we would have won already,” he said. – Artemy Panarin said after the sixth game of the series. The Russian striker managed to survive a five-game drought with and without goals, but of course much more is expected from Khlebushushka.
Prediction for the match “Carolina” – “Rangers”
From this point of view, the option to bet on a total of 5 looks interesting. Carolina’s goal-scoring difficulties and her desire to make a statistical breakthrough from the Rangers forwards are factors that speak in favor of such an outcome. Let’s not forget that with an uneven score, one of the teams could remove the goalkeeper long before the game is over and play with empty nets as there is nothing to lose in the seventh game, which increases the probability of a big goal. number of goals.
Our prediction for game seven of the Carolina series – Rangers: total goals over 5, odds – 1.76.
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