NHL Latest Line: Washington vs. Calgary Betting Odds

There are just two games on the NHL slate Monday and the one nationally televised by the NHL Network features Washington making its lone visit of the season to Calgary. Both are trying to stay in the wild card chase.

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How to Bet Capitals at Flames NHL Hockey Odds & TV Info

TV: NHL Network
Stream: NHL.com/tv
Radio: Tunein.com
Opening NHL Lines: Flames -135 (total 1.5)

Why Bet on Washington Capitals?

The Capitals are 2-2 on a five-game road trip after a 2-1 upset victory in Vancouver on Saturday. Alex Ovechkin had the game-winner, his third game-winning goal of the season. He’s up to 19 goals, 50 points, 220 shots on net, 122 hits and a minus-21 rating through 63 contests overall. Ovi has seven points over eight outings in March.

Ovechkin is now 53 goals behind Wayne Gretzky (894) for a share of the NHL’s all-time goals record and 8 behind record holder Jaromir Jagr (135) for the most game-winning goals of all time. With one more tally, Ovechkin will also have the 19th 20-goal season of his career. Since riding a camel during the Capitals’ bye week, Ovechkin has 10 goals in his last 19 games.

”(The Canucks) had a little push to start, but other than that everyone worked extremely, extremely hard tonight and really poured their heart out so it was a character win for us,” Washington’s T.J. Oshie said. “This team just keeps finding a way. Our character keeps shining through and finding ways to just keep this thing alive, so it’s fun right now.” It was the 1,000th game of Oshie’s career.

Tom Wilson had the other Washington goal. The winger hadn’t scored in three games since he sat out one contest with an upper-body injury. For the season, he’s up to 16 goals, 29 points, 145 shots on net, 192 hits, 62 blocked shots, 116 PIM and a minus-19 rating through 64 appearances in a top-six role.

Rookie Ivan Miroshnichenko recorded his first NHL assist in the win. Miro has now played in 10 games this season which means the Capitals have burned the first year on his three-year, entry-level contract.

Bet Washington to Win
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Week 34 NHL Hockey Lines Odds Subject to Change	SPREAD	MONEYLINE	TOTAL
Flames	-0.5	-135	O 1.5
Capitals	+0.5	+105	U 1.5

Why Bet on Calgary Flames?

Backlund became the second Swedish-born skater in franchise history to reach 200 career goals, joining Kent Nilsson (229). The Flames captain also became the 11th player in franchise history with 200 goals. Backlund is the 11th player in Flames history to score 200 goals. He has 21 multigoal games in the NHL.

“I’ve put in a lot of work in my life to get to the NHL and to be able to score 200 goals, it’s very special,” Backlund said. “I got close there in early January scoring 196 and 197 or something like that. It seemed to take forever to get to 200, so it feels really good to get it. Special to get all the goals here in Calgary, too. Some good company here in the organization’s history.”

Dustin Wolf was in net for the second straight game and made 36 saves. Wolf has won consecutive games for the first time in the NHL.

“I’m just trying to take advantage of every opportunity I get right now, and two wins in a row is pretty crucial for our group,” said Wolf, up from the AHL’s Wranglers due to an injury to Jacob Markstrom. “I think every time you get to play more minutes, you feel more and more comfortable. I saw a lot of rubber tonight, so it got me into the game pretty quick. And we put up five, so it makes my life pretty easy back there.”

Bet Calgary to Win
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