Hurricanes at Blue Jackets 3/15/19 - NHL Picks & Predictions

Carolina is just ahead of the Blue Jackets in the standings, but it will be a battle for the Hurricanes in this game as they are facing the Blue Jackets team at home. The reason why it will be a struggle is the Hurricanes have not been the best team when it comes to playing at home and that could easily cost the Hurricanes the game as the Blue Jackets have been able to do decent when playing at home, but are far from being the best home team. On the season the Hurricanes have been able to score at a clip of 3 goals a game on the season, but the Hurricanes defense has given up 2.74 goals a game. The Hurricanes have ended up converting on the power play at 17.4% on the year so far. The Hurricanes have ended up killing off 81.9% of the opponents power plays.

On the year the Blue Jackets offense has been able to score 3.07 goals a game. The defense for the Blue Jackets has allowed only 2.96 goals a game so far. The Blue Jackets have converted on the power play at 15.2%, but they have killed off 84.8% of the opponents power plays.