Tip: It is time for the Stanley Cup Final!

Florida Panthers visits T-Mobile Arena and Vegas Golden Knights at Saturday night at 08:00 PM ET. It is the first game in the final series, where the first team to four wins win the Stanley Cup.

Vegas Golden Knights-Florida Panthers

Vegas with their strengths in the defense

Like I have mentioned before this playoffs, I think that the home team’s strengths are mainly found in the defense as they have a three strong back pairings and during the playoffs, the goaltender Adin Hill has stepped up in a very good way with a save percentage at 0.937 so far at the playoffs’ after eleven games played. Their defense possesses high quality defensemen, and the time on ice has been solid distributed with a moderate time on ice for all their six defensemen, where Alex Pietrangelo has been the one that has played the most with a total of 23:46 time on ice per game in the playoffs.

Florida with a sharpened defense during the playoffs

During the playoffs, the Florida Panthers have sharpened their defensive game, and shut down both Boston Bruins and Toronto Maple Leafs in a good way in the first two rounds. After the advancement against the Bruins and the Leafs, Panthers made the process short against Carolina Hurricanes as they won the series 4-0. You have to keep in mind that Boston, Toronto and Carolina are three of the best teams in the league when it comes to the offense game, and Florida’s defensive display is therefore even more impressive.

Low amount of high scoring contest for both teams so far in the playoffs

So far in the playoffs, these two teams have not been included in a big number of high scoring contests, and if we look at these two teams’ games in the playoffs so far and how many goals that has been scored in the individual games, it looks like this:

Vegas Golden Knights:

• Games played: 17
• Games with six goals or less during regular time: 12
• Games with more than six goals during regular time: 5

Florida Panthers:

• Games played: 16
• Games with six goals or less during regular time: 12
• Games with more than six goals during regular time: 4

So far in the playoffs, a low amount of high scoring contests for both of the two teams in the playoffs – are we once again about to see a game with a low amount of goals?

Conclusion and prediction

The clash for the Stanley Cup, between Vegas and Florida, starts at Saturday night as the two teams are about to battle in Nevada. So far in the playoffs, both of these two teams have been involved in a low amount of high scoring games and both teams have, in my opinion, their strengths defensively. I think that the first game of the final series is going to be a tight one, with a maximum of six goals during regular game time.

My betting tip for the first Stanley Cup final game is therefore:

Under 6.0 Goals (Regular time) @ -161 at Unibet

Stake refunded if exactly six goals scored during regular game time