Montreal Canadiens vs San Jose Sharks Prediction: The Canadiens approach the encounter in good form

Prediction for the NHL Montreal Canadiens vs San Jose Sharks match, which will take place on November 30. Check the team conditions and choose several betting options.

Montreal isn't as hopeless in the regular season as they were a year ago. Martin St Louis has improved his team's play, so there's no long losing streak, which was very common a year ago. Only in early November did the Canadiens suffer three straight defeats, but they won three straight to put themselves in a better position. The Red and Blue also made good progress in their last two games, taking turns beating Columbus and Chicago 3:1 and 3:2, respectively, to climb to 11th place in the Eastern Conference standings.

San Jose is disappointing for another year in a row. With an outstanding roster, the Sharks are once again the league's outsiders with no Cup ambitions. The Turquoise began the regular season with five straight defeats, each time losing in regulation time. Then they seemed to be improving, with David Quinn's side occasionally clinging to points, but they have been in crisis again of late. The Californians had suffered five defeats in their previous six games, with their only win during that stretch being a 5:1 victory over Ottawa at home. Such modest results leave San Jose in 13th place in the Western Conference standings.

Montreal and San Jose are two teams at the bottom of the conference standings. At the same time, the Canadiens are in good shape for this encounter, winning their last two games in a row, while the Sharks are without a win in three games already. Moreover, the Californians had a series of ten victories in one-on-one battles with the Red and Blue. Still, the Canadians won their last match at 4:0. As a result, we'd have to bet on Montreal winning the game at the odds of about 1.925.

Montreal has been playing very cheerful and productive in the home walls lately. In the six previous meetings at the Bell Centre, they scored 50 goals (8.33 goals per game average), while the betting odds were surpassed in five of the last meetings. At the same time, San Jose also likes to play offensively, so we can expect a spectacular encounter, and the best option for the prediction seems to be a total over 6.5 pucks for 2.33. It is worth looking at the bet on the total over 0.5 points by Sean Monahan for 1.71.

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