Vancouver at Ottawa

The is the first road game of the season for Vancouver. Once again they are a bad offensive team ranked #23 in goals scored and #25 on the power play. They face an Ottawa defense ranked tops in the NHL in goals allowed (1.6 allowed per game) and in penalty killing. Ottawa has allowed five total goals the last four contests and is on a 32-14-3 run UNDER the total at home. Ottawa is 19-8 UNDER at home when the total is 5.5, while Vancouver is 9-2 UNDER on the road after two straight games going OVER the total. They just met in Vancouver last week, a 3-2 Ottawa win that went UNDER, and the UNDER is 9-4 in the last 13 meetings in this building. Play the UNDER.