The Caps on the verge of closing things out and the B's live to fight another day.

All games are possible closeouts today

Gargo 0-1 (10-2, +9.35)
eels 0-2 (2-2 +1.20)

Did not make pick

lemgreen 2-2 (6-5 +2.25)
jdada7 0-1 (1-1 +.80)
geg1951 1-0 (+2.45)

Brutus5775 0-1 (2-1, +.60)
usc1990 0-1 (3-2, +.65)

St. Louis at Minnesota 3:00 NBC
Montreal at Rangers 8:00 NBC
Edmonton at San Jose 10:30 NBCSN

Remember all stats I use are based on site order 2-2-1-1-1 and not in order of wins. Which I think is the correct way it should be analyzed...so there. !!!!

Blues up 3-1 at Wild

Things don't stack up very well for the Blues here, from a historical standpoint the team in this situation only has a 30.8% chance of winning this game for the prelim round. For all rounds it goes up to 41.7% So where the books have thrown -180 for the Wild I imagine they might of done their homework also here. Personally I like under 5 better.

Habs down 3-2 at Rangers

You might be thinking where the Habs are on the road they just have to win this game to keep from being eliminated. I mean surely the stats say this is the smart wager.......right.....? Well the home team here has a huge advantage, to the tune of winning 60.7% of the games in this situation over all rounds combined. So the Rangers are a huge play in this situation. They are only laying -108 to EV depending on the book you use. So the Rangers are a play here.

Oilers up 3-2 at Sharks

Once again you would think the home team down 3-2 would just win this game a great deal of the time to keep from being eliminated. Well at least this works out better for the team down 3-2. But they still have a losing record. For all rounds the home team (Sharks) only win at around 47%. So considering that the Oilers are getting +129 payback or a bit more, you gotta play them.

Recap, history tells to take

Rangers -108
Oilers +129

Lipps says

Take the Wild un 5

GL

Wild un 5 -129
Rangers -108
Oilers +129

NHL Playoffs......12-3-1 +9.85 Units

Saint Louis Blues/Minnesota Wild under 5 -130 for Game

San Jose Sharks team total over 2½ -125 for Game

Minn under
Edmonton

Nbl

Montreal -106

Good luck.

Montreal Canadiens ML -110