Betting tips › NHL › Buffalo Sabres vs Columbus Blue Jackets
NHLThu 1 Oct 23:00 UTCNationwide Arena
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Columbus Blue JacketsWWLWColumbus looks ready to take this match at home given their solid recent run of form. Buffalo comes into Nationwide Arena struggling to find any consistency after dropping three of their last four matches.
The price of 1.74 for over 5.5 goals suggests a high scoring affair is very likely based on recent matches.
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Built from: Form from settled results on this site. Prices from the odds feed.
The market makes Columbus Blue Jackets the side to beat here at 51%, but only just, so this reads as a close call rather than a mismatch. Our model lands on Columbus Blue Jackets, and it backs that with a 2 units stake. Columbus looks ready to take this match at home given their solid recent run of form. Buffalo comes into Nationwide Arena struggling to find any consistency after dropping three of their last four matches.
Columbus Blue Jackets come in strong, winning 75% of 4 on record. 2 of their 2 home games went their way, and the numbers point to games at both ends, plenty of goals either way. Right now they are on 2 wins in a row.
Buffalo Sabres come in poor, winning 25% of 4 on record. 0 of their 2 away games went their way, and the numbers point to games at both ends, plenty of goals either way. Right now they are on 2 losss in a row.
The prices turn into 51% for CBJ and 49% for BUF once the bookmaker margin is stripped out. There is little between the two in the market, so the edge, if there is one, sits in the detail rather than the headline price. Our call sits at 1.87, and we only stake it because the reasons for it outweigh the reasons against.
Across 1 past meetings BUF have had the better of it, 1 wins to 0. Squads change, so read it as colour rather than proof.
We back Columbus Blue Jackets for 2 units. It settles itself when the game ends, win or lose, and it goes on the record either way. This is an opinion read off the form and the prices on this page, not advice, and never a promise of a result.
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Columbus Blue Jackets4 games on recordBuffalo Sabres4 games on recordCounted from the settled results on this site, newest first. Nothing here is copied from anywhere else, so if a number looks wrong the mistake is ours.
Old meetings are worth less than they look. Squads change, managers change, and a result from two seasons ago tells you almost nothing about this one.
Columbus looks ready to take this match at home given their solid recent run of form. Buffalo comes into Nationwide Arena struggling to find any consistency after dropping three of their last four mat...