{"id":7899,"date":"2009-01-31T01:10:11","date_gmt":"2009-01-31T06:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.capperspicks.com\/blog\/?p=7899"},"modified":"2009-01-31T01:10:11","modified_gmt":"2009-01-31T06:10:11","slug":"weekend-preview-310109","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/nhl\/weekend-preview-310109\/","title":{"rendered":"Hockey Betting: Weekend Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"

NHL Weekend Preview – 12 Games for Sports Betting Fans<\/h2>\n

There are a dozen games on the NHL betting schedule on Saturday highlighted by three top-notch matchups as Detroit takes on Washington, the Rangers head to Boston, and Chicago faces off against San Jose.<\/p>\n

The Red Wings were shorthanded in their first game after the All-Star break against Columbus with Nicklas Lidstrom and Pavel Datsyuk forced to sit out after skipping the weekend\u2019s festivities. Detroit lost in overtime to the Blue Jackets 3-2 with Rick Nash scoring all three of Columbus\u2019 goals. Marian Hossa and Brett Lebda scored for Detroit in the loss.<\/p>\n

The Capitals faced Boston in their first game after the break and also lost 3-2 in overtime. Mike Green and Michael Nylander scored for Washington, while Jose Theodore made 25 saves.<\/p>\n

The Red Wings and Capitals haven\u2019t met since last season when Detroit edged Washington 4-3. That was the Wings\u2019 third straight win over the Caps and sixth in their last seven games against them.<\/p>\n

The Rangers had a poor start to the second half of the season with a 6-2 loss to Pittsburgh on Wednesday night. Nikolai Zherdev and Marc Staal scored for New York, while the Rangers blew any chance of picking up a win after allowing five goals in the third period.<\/p>\n

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Boston began the second half the same way they finished the first – with a win. David Krejci netted the game-winner against Washington. Marc Savard and Shawn Thornton also scored, and Tim Thomas made 34 saves to secure the victory.<\/p>\n

The Bruins and Rangers clashed in November when New York got past Boston 3-2 in a shootout as a -125 favorite on the NHL odds. Boston jumped out to a 2-0 lead in that game, but third-period goals by Nigel Dawes and Markus Naslund sent the game into overtime.<\/p>\n

Chicago continues a west coast road trip in San Jose on Saturday after playing in Anaheim on Wednesday and Los Angeles on Thursday. Against the Ducks Chicago escaped with a 3-2 win as Adam Burish, Patrick Kane, and Jonathan Toews all scored. Nikolai Khabibulin was strong in net in the win, making 36 saves.<\/p>\n

The Sharks blanked Colorado 3-0 on Tuesday, as Evgeni Nabokov stopped all 31 shots he faced. Milan Michalek had a pair of goals, and Patrick Marleau scored his 26th goal of the season into an empty net.<\/p>\n

In two previous meetings this season the Sharks picked up a pair of wins. In November San Jose defeated Chicago 6-5 behind a pair of goals from Dan Boyle, and two weeks later they clipped the Blackhawks 3-2 in overtime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The weekend NHL betting schedule delivers some great matchups for Saturday and Sunday…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[3078,5911,2276,3381,3067,1956,3079,7129,1958,1961,895,7127,3862,3380,8764,8765,3528,1168],"class_list":["post-7899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nhl","tag-bet-on-nhl","tag-free-nhl-pick","tag-hockey-betting","tag-hockey-free-picks","tag-hockey-handicapping","tag-hockey-odds","tag-nhl-betting-odds","tag-nhl-betting-selection","tag-nhl-gambling","tag-nhl-handicapping","tag-nhl-picks","tag-nhl-play","tag-nhl-sportsbook-odds","tag-nhl-wagering","tag-nhl-weekend-games","tag-nhl-weekend-preview","tag-puck-lines","tag-sportsbook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7899","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=7899"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7903,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7899\/revisions\/7903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}