Ottawa at Los Angeles

Los Angeles has won three of its last five games, all of them on the road. The Kings are 0-3-0 on their own ice and scored once in each of those games, including a 4-1 loss to Boston on October 17, in which they put 26 shots on net for that one goal. Ottawa is 8-5 and scores 2.8 goals a game to the Kings’ 2.5, a gap that widens once goals allowed enter in. Los Angeles gives up 3.4 a game and faces 28.6 shots a night, while Ottawa allows 26.2. Those leaks have not made Los Angeles home games high-scoring: the three produced three, five and five total goals. Ottawa’s road games have stayed low too. Five of the six finished with five goals or fewer, the exception a 5-3 loss at Detroit, and four of the Senators’ five games with six or more goals came at home, including the 7-4 win over the Rangers on October 24. Seven of the Kings’ 11 games and eight of the Senators’ 13 have ended with five goals or fewer. Ottawa goalie Linus Ullmark started eight of its 13 games and won seven, then left the October 21 win over Florida with a lower-body injury and went on injured reserve the next day. Ottawa has allowed 12 goals in the eight games he started and 26 in the other five. Los Angeles has scored exactly one goal in six of its 11 games. The Kings play their third game in four nights, and Ottawa fits a situational pattern for short road favorites against a team in that spot. Ottawa’s last outing was a 4-1 loss at Vegas, and the price on the better team away from home sits around a coin-flip. Back Ottawa on the moneyline and take the UNDER tonight.