Sabres vs Blue Jackets Hockey Predictions & Best Bets

Game outlook

Buffalo is on the road playing Columbus at the Nationwide Arena stadium on Wednesday, 12/7/2022 @ 7:30pm EST. Buffalo -136 was the opening favorite and current line is Buffalo -140.

Buffalo 5-5 on the road

The Buffalo Sabres have scored 95 goals and allowed 92 goals this season, placing them third in hockey in scoring. For the season, they are sitting with 23 points and their points percentage is .460. Buffalo is sitting with 95 power play opportunities and has notched 26 goals out of those attempts, giving them a percentage of 27.37 percent. During even strength, the Sabres have allowed 67 goals while scoring 69. There have been 816 attempts by Buffalo and they have a shooting percentage of 11.6%. The Buffalo Sabres have faced 809 shots and have a save percentage of .886 against them. Buffalo Sabres opponents have attempted 85 power play attempts (13th in pro hockey) and scored 25 goals on them.

Craig Anderson will be in the net for this game. In his pro hockey career, Anderson has allowed the opposition to score 1,867 goals against him and his average goal against per game is 2.85. Throughout his professional hockey career, Anderson has played 693 games. He has a save percentage of .912 for 39,303 minutes. His record is 313-268-71 with 606 starts. He has accumulated 323 quality starts in his career, and his rate for quality starts is .533. Anderson has faced 21,260 shots against him, and he has saved 19,393 shots.

With a power ranking of 9, Buffalo is ranked #3 in offense (scoring an average of 3.84 per game), #28 in defense (allowing an average of 3.68 points to be scored against them per game) and are 11-13-1 this season.