Jackets Try to Take Down Goliath – Columbus Visits Pittsburgh Monday Night<\/strong><\/p>\n The Columbus Blue Jackets will try to stretch their modest win streak to three games Monday night when they travel to Pittsburgh to take on the Penguins who are coming off a loss to the Boston Bruins on Saturday. <\/p>\n CLICK TO GRAB OUR BEST Expert NHL Picks for 2013 HOCKEY Betting!<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Columbus (12-14-2-1) at Pittsburgh (20-10-1-0)<\/strong> Matchup<\/a> | *Insiders* Preview<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Check out our in-house NHL Handicapper!!! Buy Razor Ray’s NHL Picks Today!<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n The teams have met twice this season with Pittsburgh taking both ends of a home-and-home in early November.<\/p>\n The Columbus Blue Jackets have been getting it done with defense in their last couple of games despite the loss of reigning Vezina Trophy winner Sergei Bobrovsky. The Jackets have recorded two straight shutouts and haven\u2019t allowed a goal in over 137 minutes of play.<\/p>\n As a team the Jackets are middle-of-the-pack in goals against in the league – 2.72 goals per game. But backup Curtis McElhinny has been terrific in relief of Bobrovsky – not allowing a goal in the final period against Tampa Bay and shutting out Minnesota on Friday.<\/p>\n Offensively the Jackets will likely be hard pressed to keep up with the vaunted Pittsburgh goal scorers. They average an OK 2.72 goals per game despite playing without Marion Gaborik and Nathan Horton – two huge cogs in the Jackets offense. Nick Foligno has points in three of his past four games (3-1-4) and RJ Umberger has three points in three games – that\u2019s about it for the Hot List for the Jackets.<\/p>\n The Pittsburgh Penguins will be a motivated bunch after letting on slip away Saturday against Boston. They controlled much of the game only to give up a goal with 13 seconds left to lose. The Pens are still one of the elite teams and are 7-2-1 in their last 10 games. It is unclear as to who will start between the pipes for Pittsburgh on Monday but either way the Pens seem to be in good hands. Marc-Andre Fleury is 3-1-0 with a 1.48 GAA and .945 save percentage in his last four starts and backup Jeff Zatkoff is 4-0-0 with a 1,60 GAA and .940 save percentage in his last four.<\/p>\n A few trends to consider:<\/strong> The Pittsburgh Penguins rarely lose two straight games – I don\u2019t think Columbus is the team to buck that trend. The Pens played well against Boston and perhaps should have won that game. Against an inferior Columbus team, it is hard to imagine a letdown. It doesn\u2019t matter what the line turns out to be…<\/p>\n Pick:<\/strong> Pittsburgh Penguins<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Blue Jackets vs Penguins NHL Line & Handicapping Jackets Try to Take Down Goliath – Columbus Visits Pittsburgh Monday Night The Columbus Blue Jackets will try to stretch their modest win streak to three games Monday night when they travel to Pittsburgh to take on the Penguins who are coming off a loss to the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":66828,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[12848,60637,60636,35012,60635,60638,1972,1795,9253],"class_list":["post-70206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nhl","tag-blue-jackets","tag-blue-jackets-vs-penguins","tag-columbus","tag-columbus-blue-jackets","tag-columbus-blue-jackets-vs-pittsburgh-penguins","tag-columbus-vs-pittsburgh","tag-penguins","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-penguins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70206"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70220,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70206\/revisions\/70220"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nWhen: 7:30 PM ET, Monday, December 9, 2013
\nWhere: Consol Energy Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
\nBroadcast:<\/strong> RDS, TCN-PH, SNET-E
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\nOffense certainly hasn\u2019t been a problem for the Pens. They are predictably amongst the best in the league averaging 3.03 goals per game. Penguins center Sidney Crosby has points in eight straight games (7-9-16). Chris Kunitz has 31 points in 31 games and extended his point streak to seven Saturday (6-4-10) and James Neal has 17 points in his last 10 games – enviable numbers for any team!<\/p>\nDave’s FREE NHL Betting Prediction<\/h3>\n
\n\u2022 CLB are 146-329-15 in their last 490 road games.
\n\u2022 PIT are 54-17 in their last 71 home games.
\n\u2022 Under is 8-3 in PIT last 11 Mon. games.
\n\u2022 Over is 5-2-2 in PIT last 9 overall.
\n\u2022 Over is 11-3 in the last 14 meetings.
\n\u2022 Over is 6-2 in the last 8 meetings in Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n