Red-Hot Vegas Looks To Extend Its Winning Streak in Arizona

The Vegas Golden Knights are 7-1 in their last eight games against the Arizona Coyotes. The Golden Knights will try to extend their current winning streak against the Coyotes to four straight games and their current overall winning streak to 11 straight games with a victory Friday night in Phoenix.

Sportsbook Odds Analysis

Early betting action has come in on the Golden Knights as -185 Sportsbook line favorites to push the line up to Vegas -200. The Coyotes are going off at +170 to end Vegas’s winning streak while the total for this game is set at 5.5 goals. The OVER is 4-2 in the last six games between Vegas and Arizona.

Vegas News & Notes

Max Pacioretty scored two goals with an assist and Mark Stone had a goal and two helpers in Vegas’s 5-2 win over the Colorado Avalanche on Wednesday night. Stone has been red-hot over the team’s last eight games with seven goals and seven assists. The Golden Knights have outscored their opponents 45-17 during their current 10-game winning streak.

Vegas has the best goals-against average in the NHL this season at 2.15 to go along with the league’s third-most potent offense at 3.42 goals per game. Marc-Andre Fleury has bounced back from a down year in 2019-20 with the best season of his career to date, boasting a 2.08 goals-against average and .927 save percentage across 32 starts. Robin Lehner has been rock-solid as well with a 2.04 GAA and a .922 save percentage across 15 starts.

Arizona News & Notes

Back on April 5, the Coyotes were right in the thick of the race for the fourth spot in the West Division with a 19-15-5 record. Arizona was on a 6-1 run and the St. Louis Blues were 16-16-6 and in the midst of a seven-game losing streak. Since then, both teams have started going in the other direction; St. Louis is 7-3-0 over its last 10 games and the Coyotes are 2-9-0 over their last 11.

So now the Coyotes sit five points behind the Blues in the standings with two games in hand. Arizona has been doomed by poor defense and goaltending over its recent skid as the team has allowed 3.82 goals per game over its last 11. The Coyotes lost to the Golden Knights twice in Las Vegas this month by scores of 7-4 and 1-0.

Betting Pick: Vegas -200