Colorado Avalanche vs Dallas Stars Betting Picks and Prediction

The Colorado Avalanche and Dallas Stars meet in their second consecutive head-to-head preseason matchup. The Avs won Monday’s matchup in Dallas 3-1. This will be the Colorado Avalanche’s final game of the preseason, while the Dallas Stars will have one more preseason game to play against the Minnesota Wild on Saturday.

With the preseason almost complete, we’ll review the stats and recent trends to give you the best Avalanche vs Stars betting picks for your NHL picks today.

Colorado Avalanche vs. Dallas Stars Game Info and Analysis

Matchup Info

• Colorado Avalanche vs. Dallas Stars
• Ball Arena, Denver, Colorado
• Puck Drop: 8:30 P.M. ET 
• Television Broadcast: TNT

Colorado Avalanche Performance Recap and Analysis

The Colorado Avalanche enter Wednesday night’s matchup with a 2-2-1 (W-T-OTL) preseason record. The Avalanche lineup that defeated the Dallas Stars on Monday night was more representative of the Stanley Cup champions we remember, with much of the Avs’ talented and deep defensive core playing as a unit for the first time in 2022-23.

In their 3-1 victory over the Stars on Monday night, Colorado got two goals from Artturi Lehkonen and a stellar 38-save performance from Pavel Francouz in the net.

Key Injuries

The Colorado Avalanche are entering the 2022-23 season as the reigning and defending Stanley Cup Champions without their captain. Gabriel Landeskog is on the injured reserve list recovering from a lower-body injury. 

The soon-to-be highest-paid player in hockey, Nathan MacKinnon, is one of three Avalanche players listed as day-to-day, along with depth forwards Darren Helm and J.T. Compher. Your Avalanche vs Stars betting picks should be influenced any time players of the caliber and importance of Landeskog or MacKinnon are out of the lineup. When two of the names you’d expect to see at the top of the NHL stats rankings are out of the lineup, you best take note for your Avalanche vs Stars betting picks.

Betting Trends to Know

Despite the 2022-23 NHL regular season starting on Friday with the San Jose Sharks and Nashville Predators at the O2 Arena in Prague, Czechia, we are still in the preseason here in North America. While NHL betting odds are available, we have to be careful of assessing betting trends. Neither of the rosters the Avalanche or Stars will send to the ice will resemble the teams that first took to the ice in preseason action.

During the 2022-23 NHL preseason, the Colorado Avalanche have only played in one game that has finished within the NHL standard 1.5 spread on the puck line. That game was a 3-2 overtime loss against the Minnesota Wild on September 25th. In their last outing, the Avalanche defeated the Dallas Stars 3-1, covering the puck line spread and winning as the betting favorite on the moneyline.

Dallas Stars Performance Recap and Analysis

The Dallas Stars enter Wednesday night’s matchup with a 2-3-0 (W-T-OTL) preseason record. Dallas has alternated between loses and wins so far in the 2022 NHL preseason. The Stars’ lineup from Monday night was their most representative of the regular season.

Key Injuries

According to ESPN.com, the Dallas Stars have no injuries to report. The major lineup news you’ll need to asses a wager on the Dallas Stars will be by checking the official team, league, and media partners’ online platforms for the latest line-ups. As it always is with hockey, we can project a lineup, but you won’t know who will be in the line-up until much closer to puck drop.

Betting Trends to Know

Again, we must remind you that this is the preseason, the Stars standings don’t matter yet, and the games played earlier in the preseason do not reflect the Dallas Stars’ roster that will take to the ice in Denver on Wednesday night. However, as noted, the Stars’ lineup from their 3-1 loss to the Avalanche on Monday night was their most representative regular lineup of the preseason, featuring the likes of Jake Oettinger, Jamie Benn, and Miro Heiskanen.

In the 2022-23 NHL preseason, the Dallas Stars have played in one game that ended within the NHL-standard 1.5 goals on the puck line: a 4-3 overtime loss to the Arizona Coyotes. 

Colorado Avalanche vs. Dallas Stars Odds

Online sportsbooks have the Colorado Avalanche as the moneyline betting favorite, listed between -233 and -263 odds. The Dallas Stars are the moneyline underdog, listed between +190 and +200 odds. Both Colorado and Dallas are 2-3 on the moneyline in the preseason. Despite being the reigning and defending Stanley Cup champions, these Avalanche betting odds on the moneyline seem a little high for the preseason.

The odds on the puck line are much closer than the moneyline and will affect our Avalanche vs Stars betting picks. The Colorado Avalanche (-1.5) are the betting underdog on the puck line spread, listed with odds between +100 and +105. The Dallas Stars (+1.5) might be the underdog on the moneyline but are the betting favorite on the puck line, listed at -125 on the online sportsbooks we found the game listed at.

The total goals for the Avalanche vs. Stars are set at six on most online sportsbooks, although you can find the game listed at 6.5 goals. The over is listed at -120 odds on sportsbooks where the total goals are listed at 6, while where the total goals are listed at 6.5, the odds on the over are +100. The under is listed at +100 odds on sportsbooks, where the total goals are listed at 6, while where the total goals are listed at 6.5, the odds on the under are -125.

Avalanche vs. Stars Betting Picks

Despite being the reigning and defending Stanley Cup champions, these Avalanche betting odds (-233 to -263) on the moneyline seem a little high for the preseason. Colorado is the better team, even without its two biggest threats in the offensive zone and significant contributors to the power play. Should the Avs’ win this game? Yes. Will they win? It depends on who is on the ice. Are we convinced to take the Avs on the moneyline with less-than-favorable odds? No.

Online sportsbooks have the total goals set to 6 or 6.5. With no MacKinnon for the Avs and potentially Jake Oettinger in the net for the Stars, we’d take the under as one of our  Avalanche vs Stars betting picks.

The Avs moneyline odds might not be the most valuable, but pairing them with Colorado to cover the spread in a parlay could bring you the most value from another Colorado victory. The spread odds are close, but we’re picking Colorado to win and cover the spread for our Avalanche vs Stars betting picks today.

Colorado Avalanche vs. Dallas Stars Score Prediction

The score of this game depends on who is in the net for the Dallas Stars. Scores will skew lower with a game-changing (and wager-altering) goalie like Oettinger in the net. We don’t know if Oettinger will be in the net tonight, having played Monday against the Avs. We’ll side with caution and presume he will be in the net. Still, we see the Avalanche winning another close game 3-1. 

NHL Pick: The Colorado Avalanche to cover the spread (-1.5) at +100 to +105 odds.

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