Kuznetsk Bears – Snow Leopards: forecast for the MHL match
The Kuznetsk Bears will host the Snow Leopards from Kazakhstan in Novokuznetsk on February 20. The hosts are fighting for the TOP-8 of the "Golden" Division of the Eastern Conference and are located in the playoff zone. The Kuznetsk Bears look much more powerful and intend to win over their opponent again and break away from the Siberian Snipers. On whose side will fortune be and what bets should I play? The answer is in our forecast

Command Analysis

Kuznetskie Medvedi

Current form
Metallurg Novokuznetsk's youth team can't find their game in any way and start showing results, just like in the last regular season. In the current MHL draw, the team is trudging in the basement of the standings and will not get out of it in any way. The Kuznetsk Bears are approaching this match motivated by Victory, as they have won three of the last five games. In the last match, the club inflicted a crushing defeat on someone else's ice to the Krasnoyarsk Lynxes (13:0), where they scored 10 goals in equal formations. The game before, the wards of Valentin Kopylov lost to Ladya with a score of 2:5. The team has the ability to show results and has proved it more than once during the championship. The performance this season is lame from the word at all - only 114 goals were scored and 26 confrontations were lost. The penultimate place in the standings indicates the low level of play of the team, which is determined to keep its place in the playoffs, where it is three points ahead of the Siberian Snipers.
Interesting betting trends
- On average, the Kuznetsk Bears concede 2.8 goals per game.
- In the last five matches, the club has not lost to its opponent.

Snezhnye Barsy

Current form
The team from Kazakhstan did not play a very confident game in the last championship and, according to the results of the regular season of the MHL, could not make it to the Kharlamov Cup play-in, as it took the penultimate place in the "Silver" division of the Eastern Conference. The Snow Leopards are the youth club of Barys and they are playing an abominable game this season, with only two wins in the last 20 matches. The team cannot find its game and put up proper resistance to the opponents. In the last game against the Omsk Hawks in Astana, Andrei Shayanov's team suffered a crushing defeat 0:7 in the end, and they lost to the Polar Bears (1:3) the game before. After 40 confrontations, he has 27 points and only 112 goals scored. The club is fighting for every inch of ice, but so far it occupies only the eighth place in the standings of its division.
Interesting betting trends
- The club has suffered defeats in the last seven games in a row.
- The team scores an average of 2.8 goals per game.
Trends
Bet 1st period: total more than 1.5 pucks
In 3 of the last 5 meetings of the hosts, more than 1.5 goals were scored in the first period.
1.63Betting period 3: victory of the Kuznetsk Bears
Novokuznetsk club won in 2 of the last 3 matches in the third period.
1.60Tip and bets
The hosts will take the initiative again, and based on the previous face-to-face game in Astana, the Novokuznetsk Bears are the undisputed favorite, and the bookmakers also believe in Metallurg's youth. We believe that the coaching staff of the home team has done a lot of work again before today's battle, the team will take advantage of the experience and come out victorious.
Forecast – handicap (-2.5) pucks for the Kuznetsk Bears with a coefficient of 1.95
Bet on the total
In this match, the hosts will take advantage and will act as the first number, devoting a lot of time to attacking actions with an eye on defense. It is worth noting that in the last two matches of the Kuznetsk Bears, more than six goals were scored in a row. We can assume that there will be many of them in this confrontation.
The forecast is a total of more than 6.5 goals with a coefficient of 2.05
Betting on an individual total
The Kuznetsk Bears have top-class strikers who can score a lot. The Novokuznetsk team has scored 20 goals in the last five games, and we believe that it will not be difficult for the hosts to score more than four times.
The forecast is that the individual total of the Kuznetsk Bears is more than 4.5 goals with a coefficient of 2.05