Toronto vs. New Jersey: NHL Match Prediction

Current form

Toronto remains one of the main leaders of the Eastern Conference and is currently in second place in the standings. It is now literally five points away from the lead, so in the event of a successful winning streak, it can claim first place. Let us emphasize that this season, the leaves play in series, and usually replace a successful series of matches with a streak of failures. They also did not play their last meetings in the best way and suffered three defeats in a row.

Before this, Craig Berube team was in excellent shape and won five victories, but now they are clearly going through hard times. Let us recall that after the victory over Philadelphia (3:2), the leaves lost to Carolina (3:6), Vancouver (0:3), and also failed to cope with Dallas (1:4). At the same time, in the last two games they were left with less than two goals scored, although they usually do not face problems with scoring and are used to opening the defense of various opponents at least three times, especially when playing on their home ice.

Toronto usually plays its strongest in the second twenty minutes, where it has a ratio of 56:40 in goals scored and goals conceded. It is quite possible that after a series of disastrous matches, a serious conversation took place in the locker room, after which the Leafs must pull themselves together and show everything they are capable of, because this season they have not allowed themselves to lose four games in a row.

Disqualifications and injuries

Calle Jarnkrok, Anthony Stolarz, Jake McCabe, John Klingberg and Jani Hakanpaa are still on the injured list.

Interesting trends for betting

• Toronto gets 7.73 penalty minutes per game.

Typically leaves are removed at least four times per game.

• Toronto averages 3.02 goals per game on home ice

On home ice, the Leafs have a strong offensive game and typically crack open their opponents' defense at least three times.