Vancouver Canucks vs. Anaheim Ducks Prediction, Preview, and Odds

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11 April 2023

The Vancouver Canucks will go on the road on Tuesday night to the Honda Center to clash with the Anaheim Ducks in a Pacific Division game. The Canucks are sixth in the Pacific Division (36-36-7, 79 points) and are on a two-game winning streak after a 3-2 shootout home win on Saturday against the Calgary Flames. The Ducks are brutal as they are last in the Pacific Division (23-45-12, 58 points) and are on an 11-game losing streak after coming off a 5-4 overtime home loss on Sunday against the Colorado Avalanche. This will be the fourth and final regular season game against one another and the Canucks are attempting to sweep the matchup.

Canucks Middling?

The Vancouver Canucks have been an average offensive team so far this regular season as they have scored 268 goals so far, which is 13th in the NHL. They have seven different players on the injury report so the lines are going to be different. They have been right around average on the power play as they have scored 58 goals on 263 power play attempts (22.05 percent). They also have been shooting a point more than average as they have an 11.1 shooting percentage thus far.

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Thatcher Demko is the starting goaltender for the Vancouver Canucks and is expected to be in the net for this game as well. He did well in his previous game as he allowed a pair of goals on 43 shots against the Calgary Flames in a shootout win. Demko has been struggling with a record of 13-14-48 with a .900 save percentage and 3.20 goals allowed per game thus far. They gave up 289 goals so far, which is 25th in the NHL right now and have one of the worst teams in terms of penalty kills, so they need to be better at killing penalties defensively.

Ducks on a Pond

The Anaheim Ducks have been struggling to score the puck so far as they have posted 204 total goals, which is 31st in the NHL as of this writing. The six players are out on the injury report and expected to be potentially for the rest of the season. They are a handful of points below average as they have scored on 35 of their 222 power play attempts this season (15.77 percent). The Ducks have also been below league average shooting at 8.9 percent so far.

John Gibson has struggled this season as the starting goaltender for the Anaheim Ducks as he is 14-30-8 with 3.99 goals allowed per game and a .899 save percentage. He last played on Saturday in a loss against the Oilers as he finished allowing five goals on 36 shot attempts. As a team, they are allowing the most goals allowed with 330 goals given up. They have been killing penalties poorly as they have killed 194-of-268 (72.39 percent) of all their penalties thus far.

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The ability to score on the power play is critical to get wins and there is a massive difference in this game as Vancouver is 12th with a 22.1 power-play percentage while Anaheim is all the way down at 30th with just a 15.8 power-play percentage so far. Their defense as of late shows a divide too with the Canucks allowing 2.75 goals in their previous four games while the Ducks are giving up 4.8 goals in their last five games. The Canucks have won four of the last five games against the Ducks so go with the Vancouver Canucks to win here on the road.

Prediction: Vancouver Canucks -145

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Neither team has been doing well at finding the back of the net as of late with Vancouver scoring 2.25 goals in their previous four games while Anaheim is averaging 2.6 goals in their last five games. A big reason is throughout the season, neither team is shooting enough as the Canucks are 22nd with 29.8 shot attempts per game while the Ducks are 29th with 28.3 shot attempts throughout the season. The under is 19-8-3 in their last 30 games against one another so go with UNDER 6.5 GOALS in this game.

Prediction: Under 6.5

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