Pittsburgh will play a regular season match of the National Hockey League with Columbus. The meeting will take place on December 6. Our sports portal gives a forecast for the game.
Pittsburgh Penguins
The Pennsylvania club ranks fourth in the Metropolitan Division. Mike Sullivan's team has played 25 regular season games and scored 30 points this season. The Penguins held the previous meeting on their own court and confidently beat St. Louis with a score of 6:2. Kaspersky Kapanen scored a hat-trick for the winners, Brian Rust, Jason Zucker and Sidney Crosby scored another goal each. By the way, it is the captain of "Pittsburgh" who leads the list of the best scorers of the team — he scored 13 goals and gave 20 assists with a utility rating of "+3".
Columbus Blue Jackets
The Uniforms, like the Penguins, represent the Metropolitan Division. Brad Larsen's team is on the last line — 18 points at the end of 25 regular season matches. Columbus held the previous meeting in the regular season on its ice and lost to Detroit with a score of 2:4. Marcus Bjork and Kent Johnson scored accurate shots for the losing team. In the last five matches of the regular season, the "uniforms" suffered four defeats.
Statistics and figures:
- "Pittsburgh" is the favorite of the match according to the bookmakers.
- In the last face-to-face meetings, the Penguins won 44 victories, the Uniforms - 22.
- The previous game ended with a score of 6:3 in favor of Pittsburgh.
Forecast
I think Pittsburgh will win. In my opinion, Sullivan's team will not experience serious problems.