Nashville Predators vs Pittsburgh Penguins Prediction: The Penguins Will Celebrate Success

Prediction for the NHL Nashville Predators vs Pittsburgh Penguins match will take place on March 1st. Who will turn out to be stronger? Check the team conditions! Several betting options are available. 

Nashville is going through tough times. Every year, the American team has a roster of excellent names, where the key players are at a good hockey age, but they cannot get to the high stages of the Stanley Cup in any way. Moreover, they perform very modestly in the regular season. Therefore they risk flying past the playoffs. A shake-up at the Predators will likely happen now since Barry Trotz officially became the club's general manager the day before. So far, Nashville occupies only the tenth place in the Western Conference standings, six points behind the Cup eight.

Pittsburgh is another experienced team that spends the hardest regular season. A long time ago, the NHL playoffs were only complete with the participation of the Penguins, but now there is a risk that this will still happen as the Pennsylvanians continue to show uneven results. Mike Sullivan's wards met the second half of February with four defeats in a row, during which they lost twice to the Islanders – 4:5 and 2:4, and once more to New Jersey and Edmonton - 2:5 and 2:7, respectively. Fortunately, in the last two matches, there were victories over St. Louis and Tampa Bay, which allowed Pittsburgh to get an eighth place in the Eastern Conference.

In the upcoming confrontation with Pittsburgh, Nashville is in a good mood, as they managed to win in the last three games, but we should pay special attention to the level of their rivals – Arizona, San Jose, and Vancouver. Three outsiders of the Western Conference could not oppose anything to the Predators, but the Penguins are a team of a completely different level, so it will be much more challenging to compete with them. The Pennsylvanians also showed good activity, and the success in the game with Tampa Bay was quite incredible. 

Nashville has recently started to score points regularly and suddenly started playing efficiently. In the previous five matches with the participation of the Predators, they had a total of 41 goals (8.20 on average per game), which is a very high indicator by the standards of the NHL.