This is an 8* SITUATIONAL DESTRUCTION on the Colorado Avalanche.

Some times I feel it's necessary to completely dissect a game, looking at movitational, situational and trend based factors as well as scheduling and in others I feel that a more "common sense" approach is the best way to handicap a contest and that's the case here. Neither team has been playing well of late, but Colorado plays with "revenge" after falling in Philadelphia earlier in the year. And from a trend based stand point, they simply don't get much stronger than this, note that Philadelphia is 1-8 (-7.7 units) after losing by 2 goals or more in its last contest, while Colorado is 4-2 (+2.8 units) after scoring 1 goal or less in its previous game. In my opinion, this is the very definition of great line value, play on COLORADO.

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