Ottawa Senators at Nashville Predators, NHL forecast
The short version
- No betting line is up yet, and our pre-line forecast calls it about even (Senators 51%). It switches to the line once one posts.
- Behind that number: the Predators have home ice and the Senators rate higher (1525 to 1493 Elo).
What's at stake
Each team's chance to make the playoffs if it wins this game and if it loses, from 10,000 simulations of the rest of the season.
Senators
Now 69%
72%
with a win
66%
with a loss
This game is worth 6 points of playoff chance to them.
Predators
Now 54%
58%
with a win
50%
with a loss
This game is worth 8 points of playoff chance to them.
The pick
No line is posted yet, so this is the pre-line forecast: Elo blended with ratings learned from past lines. It switches to the line once one is posted.
Senators 51%
Forecast Elo ratings alone
How often that comes true: NHL favorites the forecast gave 50–55% have won 51.2% of 926 graded games.
- Market
- No line yet
- Pre-line forecast
- OTT 51%
- Elo + market-implied
- Elo ratings
- OTT 50%
- Fair odds
- OTT -103
- NSH +103 · the forecast as odds, no margin
- Projected score
- OTT 3.2 – 3.1 NSH
- Margin from the forecast, total from team scoring ratings
How the number is built
Elo inputs in rating points (higher favors that team; 25–28 Elo is about a point of spread in football and basketball), then how the pieces combine.
| Factor | OTT | NSH | Why |
|---|---|---|---|
| Team rating | 1525 | 1493 | Elo entering the game; 1500 is league average |
| Home field | — | +35 | Worth 35 Elo in the NHL |
| Starting goalies | — | — | OTT: Starter not announced · NSH: Starter not announced |
| Elo ratings | NSH +3 Elo | NSH 50.4% | |
| Market-implied ratings | OTT 51.0% | Team strength as past closing lines priced it, same game context | |
| Pre-line forecast | OTT 50.7% | 20% Elo, 80% market-implied (log-odds blend) | |
Tale of the tape
This season coming into the game, regular season, each number with its league rank (the longer the bar, the higher). Home and road: the host's record at home against the visitor's on the road. Overtime and shootout losses count as losses in these records. Opponent Elo: how strong the teams each has played are, 1st the toughest. Shot share is a team's share of the shots on goal in its games. PDO adds shooting and save percentages: far from 100 tends to even out.
| OTT | Stat | NSH |
|---|---|---|
| 16th of 323.2 | Goals scored | 3.118th of 32 |
| 11th of 323.0 | Goals allowed | 2.86th of 32 |
| 15th of 32+0.2 | Margin | +0.211th of 32 |
| 19th of 3248.9% | Shot share | 47.6%27th of 32 |
| 10th of 3289.9% | Save percentage | 90.8%4th of 32 |
| 14th of 325–5 | Last 10 | 6–48th of 32 |
| 11th of 325–5 | Road vs home | 6–518th of 32 |
| 26th of 321491 | Opponent Elo | 15204th of 32 |
| 12th of 321525 | Elo rating | 149317th of 32 |
Rating history
Each team's Elo over the last two seasons. Hover or drag to compare on any date.
Injury report
Current ESPN report. Elo values show what the model subtracts.
Senators
5 listedLinus Ullmark G
Day-To-Dayday-to-day
Nick Cousins C
Day-To-Dayday-to-day
Andre Burakovsky LW
Injured Reserveir
Warren Foegele LW
Injured ReserveFoegele (knee) will miss 3-4 weeks, Jackson Starr of the Senators' official site reports Saturday.
William Eklund LW
Injured ReserveEklund had surgery to repair a torn ankle tendon and will be out 10-12 weeks, Bruce Garrioch of Postmedia reports Thursday.
Predators
1 listedJonathan Marchessault RW
Day-To-Dayday-to-day
Recent form
Last five results, and whether the forecast hit.
Against the line
How each team has done against the closing spread and total, coming into this game.
| This season |  OTT |  NSH |
|---|---|---|
| Puck line | 6–11 | 12–5 |
| Last 10 | 3–7 | 8–2 |
| Favorite | 3–8 | 0–2 |
| Underdog | 3–3 | 12–3 |
| Overs–unders | 6–11 | 8–9 |
| Overs–unders, last 10 | 4–6 | 5–5 |
Against each game's closing line. Books set every line knowing these records: across 3,901 past games, the team with the better record against the spread so far that season covered 51.2%, short of the 52.4% a standard −110 bet needs, and over/under streaks held 48.0% of the time. They describe the past.
Head to head
OTT 4–3 NSH in their last 7 meetings; the forecast called 4 of 7.