Red Wings vs Maple Leafs

NHL odds, picks, and predictions for the Detroit Red Wings at Toronto Maple Leafs on January 7. NHL betting best bet and free pick analysis.

Samsonov, the projected starter, has posted four straight games with a sub-.900 save percentage while Murray has posted a .900 SV% or better in just three of his last eight starts. The Leafs are 5-1 to the Over in their last six games and only one of those matches saw more than 60 combined shots. The last time these two teams met on Hockey Night in Canada, last season, Toronto won an epic 10-7 game where it nearly blew a 7-2 third-period lead. Since the restart, Toronto is seeing over 2.00 special-team goals per game while Detroit has seen 11 through five games. A lot of that is on the goaltending, as Toronto is still keeping the shots down, but considering the Leafs had a league-best 2.00 GAA when Rielly was out, it could be something else. The Red Wings might need more of that tonight with backup Hellberg likely drawing the start on the backend of this back-to-back. The winger is still playing next to Matthews and Nylander on the top line and with Sheldon Keefe still rolling with five forwards on the power play, Bunting is getting big 5-on-4 minutes (6:37 last game vs. He also has the third-most shots on net over the last 10 games, behind only Matthews and Nylander. The 31-year-old goalie has just 10 NHL games in his career. In a game where nearly every Toronto market is taxed, Bunting to keep up the scoring is returning some value for bettors. He’s scored in seven of his last 11 games, accounting for 21% of the team’s goals. The Toronto Maple Leafs are coming off a rare home defeat Thursday but get a great schedule spot vs.

Goaltender Magnus Hellberg — who has just 10 games of NHL experience spanning stops in New York, Ottawa, and Detroit — is expected to start in the Red Wings' ...

That is not the case. That is part of the game. That is the area where we have to remain consistent and keep that dialed in. It’s been a very rare occasion for the [Leafs](https://mapleleafshotstove.com/) to be truly out of a game in the first half of the season, although it’s worth noting that all three of those above-mentioned losses have come in their last eight games. All of that said, this is the NHL, and looking past any opponent is a recipe for disaster. It is reality. It is going in. I still think we have played really good hockey over the course of the 60 minutes. If you step back from it and look at the number of chances we have given up and how we have carried play, I don’t think we have slipped too much in that regard. Goaltender Magnus Hellberg — who has just 10 games of NHL experience spanning stops in New York, Ottawa, and Detroit — is expected to start in the Red Wings’ net in the back-to-back. Additionally, the Red Wings are entering something of a “schedule loss” situation tonight given they’re playing the second half of a back-to-back and their third in four nights. They haven’t lost a game to Detroit in nearly four years, and they haven’t lost to them in regulation in over five.