NY Islanders vs ANA Ducks Prediction: Betting on the home team

Prediction for the NHL match which will take place on December 14. Who will turn out to be stronger? Check the team conditions! Several betting options are available.

The Islanders have performed poorly in recent years and started the current regular season clearly below their ambitions. It seemed like we wouldn't see any progress from the Islanders even now, but they managed to improve seriously. Since mid-November, they've been on a great run that has allowed them to go scoreless only once in their last 11 games, losing to New Jersey 4:5, losing a couple more times outside of regulation time, and in eight cases, they've been able to celebrate success. Such a productive stretch led to their location in fifth place in the standings of the Eastern Conference.

Anaheim has exactly the opposite dynamics in the current regular season. The Californians had a great start to the season and produced a six-game winning streak. Probably, they left all their strength and emotions on this stretch, as the results began to slump afterward. In the last 12 meetings, they got only one victory over Colorado - 4:3, which was won only in a shootout. But in the remaining 11 battles, the Ducks didn't just lose, but did it in regulation time, leaving them without any points. Such a weak period seriously affected the position of the Black and Orange, who now occupy only 14th place in the Western Conference standings.

The Islanders and Anaheim are in completely different forms at the moment. The Islanders performed poorly in the opening period of the current regular season but have since rebounded to score 18 of a possible 22 points in their last 11 games - a great stretch. The Ducks, on the other hand, are in a serious crisis, because of which they won only once over the same distance and in ten cases lost in regulation time. In addition, the statistics of head-to-head meetings also favor the New York team, according to which the Californians have not scored a single point in the last four meetings.

Islanders is a team that has always been known for its ability to play pragmatically and for results. In the debut of the current regular season, the Islanders also had plenty of low-scoring games. Still, in late November, they played an incredibly disappointing face-off with Philadelphia, losing 0:1 in a shootout. Since then, the New York team has had fun in every battle: in the next seven meetings, they have scored and conceded a total of 56 pucks (8.00 average per game), and in six cases, they have scored at least three times and conceded at least three pucks.