Wild Look to Even it Up – Host Avalanche in Pivotal Game 4 Thursday Night<\/strong><\/p>\n The Minnesota Wild look to carry the momentum gained off a 1-0 overtime win in Game 3 when they try to hold serve and even their series with the Colorado Avalanche. The Wild looked good throughout Game 3 – they were clearly the better team. <\/p>\n Colorado (54-22-5-4) at Minnesota (44-28-5-8)<\/strong> ATS Matchup Insight<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0CappersPicks Insider Preview<\/a><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Now they get to face an Avs club that lost Tyson Barrie for four to six weeks thanks to a knee-on-knee hit by Matt Cooke. A little spice has been thrown into the first round series – Thursday night should be an interesting affair.<\/p>\n The Colorado Avalanche are sayin all the right things regarding Matt Cooke`s hit on Barrie. To a man the Avs know that the best revenge is to soundly beat the Wild – something they didn`t come close to doing in Game 3.<\/p>\n The Avalanche were outshot 44-20 in Game 3 and their power play is 1-for-11 so far in the series – not exactly numbers that you win with. But the Avalanche are still a talented bunch and should be better Thursday night. As mentioned, the Wild played a complete 60 minutes+ in Game 3 – they controlled throughout and let their rookie keeper earn a little confidence with a 22 save shutout. Minnesota has to feel pretty good going into Game 4.<\/p>\n Mikael Granlund is the story of Game 3 – some unexpected brilliance for a Wild team that needed a spark. Granlund was terrific offensively in scoring the winner and he was also very good in a defensive roll against the Avs potent lineup.<\/p>\n A few trends to consider:<\/strong> Something tells me the Colorado Avalanche are in a little bit of trouble here. The injury and loss of Tyson Barrie coupled with the fact that Matt Duchene is still out with a knee injury scares me a little bit. My guess is that it takes a couple of periods to adjust to another Stud out of the lineup.<\/p>\n Pick:<\/strong> Minnesota Wild -135<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Avs vs Wild Hockey Betting? Wild Look to Even it Up – Host Avalanche in Pivotal Game 4 Thursday Night The Minnesota Wild look to carry the momentum gained off a 1-0 overtime win in Game 3 when they try to hold serve and even their series with the Colorado Avalanche. The Wild looked good […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":76025,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[61877,35356,61879,61878,2993,3045,2287,1957,11729],"class_list":["post-75982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nhl","tag-avalanche-vs-wild","tag-colorado-avalanche","tag-colorado-avalanche-vs-minnesota-wild","tag-colorado-vs-minnesota","tag-free-nhl-picks","tag-game-4","tag-minnesota-wild","tag-nhl-betting","tag-round-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75982","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=75982"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76026,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75982\/revisions\/76026"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}CLICK TO GRAB OUR BEST Expert NHL Picks for 2014 HOCKEY Betting!<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n
\n When: 9:30 PM ET, Thursday, April 24, 2014<\/strong>
\n Where: Xcel Energy Center, Saint Paul, Minnesota<\/strong>
\n Broadcast: TSN2, CNBC, RDS2, ALT, FS-N, FS-WI<\/strong>
\n Avs Lead Series 2-1<\/strong>
\n Avalanche vs. Wild betting Lines<\/strong>
\n Colorado Avalanche +1\u00bd -260 +123 Ov 5 +102<\/strong>
\n Minnesota Wild -1\u00bd +220 -135 Un 5 -113<\/strong><\/p>\n\n
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\nAnother positive for the Avalanche is the play of Seymon Varlamov. After struggling the first game he has put together two nice outings including a 45 save effort in a loss in Game 3.<\/p>\nDave’s FREE NHL Betting Prediction<\/h3>\n
\n\u2022 COL are 10-1 in their last 11 Thu. games.
\n\u2022 COL are 12-3 in their last 15 vs. Central.
\n\u2022 COL are 10-4 in their last 14 overall.
\n\u2022 Over is 5-1-2 in MIN last 8 games following a win.
\n\u2022 MIN are 3-7 in their last 10 vs. Central.<\/p>\n