Los Angeles at San Jose

The San Jose Sharks find themselves down two games to none, and will have a lot of pressure on them to win both games at home, or they are going to have to win two games in LA, which isn't very probable. The Kings are the defending NHL Champions and once again appear to be heading towards the same result. The Kings have now played 28 playoffs games over the last two seasons, allowing 43 goals or just 1.54 per contest. When you take a look at the puckline odds at almost 3-1, it makes many shy away. But, when you take a closer look at where they are, and what they have accomplished on the defensive end, it actually shows a lot of value. The Kings have scored in 15 straight playoffs games, and 27 of their last 28. There is an extremely strong chance that they score here - at the very least one time. If you look at their 28 opponents, they reached 3 goals just five times, and never over the 28 games did they give up 3 or more twice in a row. The bottom line here is that the odds are greatly under done, so I'm going with the Kings on the puckline.