The NHL brings a fantastic 10-game slate on Thursday night. The end of the week seems to arrive a little quicker with multiple double-digit game slates throughout the week. Your bridge to Friday brings great hockey all night from coast to coast. There are hot teams looking to stay hot, cold teams looking to break out, division rivalries, and inter-Conference matchups. Thursday is a perfect night to kick your feet up and get your NHL fix.
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Philadelphia Flyers win (+115) over Columbus Blue Jackets
It is not surprising that in a game between a 7-3-2 team and a 3-9-0 team that the money line favorite is -135 and the dog is +115. What is surprising is the 7-3-2 team has the plus money. The Flyers have played great out of the gates under new coach John Tortorella. They are playing hard and free but with structure. That is a classic Tortorella coached team. He put the Flyers through conditioning hell in training camp to make sure they were in the best shape of any team entering the season. Flyers' opponents appear to still be catching up a little bit. Plus money outright against this bad Blue Jackets team is too good of value to pass up.
The Blue Jackets enter this game having lost 5 consecutive in regulation and with 6 losses in their last 7 games. They aren't losing close games either. In their current 5-game losing streak, Columbus has been outscored a combined 28-8 for an average loss of 5.6-1.6. With that, they are -135 favorites in this one over a Flyers team that has played great in this first month in the season and much better than Columbus. The Blue Jackets are second to worst in the NHL in both goal scoring and goal prevention. They are an easy fade let alone as a -135 favorite.