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Posted at 11:00 AM EST.

9:05 PM EST. The Blue Jackets played and lost last night in Los Angeles, but we're not going to let that stop us from using them to attack the Ducks here. If you stayed up to watch that game, you know that Columbus was done in by the poor goaltending of Sergei Bobrovsky, but we're not going to have to worry about that stiff today. If you've been reading this space for a few seasons, you know that we've been anti "Bob" and pro Joonas Korpisalo for some time and while neither is lighting the world on fire at the moment, we'd rather take our chances with the latter 10 times out of 10. The market will overpay for a number one goaltender even if he stinks and if Bobrovsky were in the net today, the Jackets would likely be favored.

The Ducks are the dregs and cannot be favored against anyone, even in their own barn and when they are, we're going for the kill. Its 5-1-1 start padded Anaheim's record, but a seven-game skid since is a far more accurate representation of where that team is. When they were winning games at the start of the season, it was because John Gibson was stopping everything in sight. The Ducks proved a point we try to preach all of the time and that's whoever has the best goalie that night is likely to win. Gibson is still great, but the guys in front of him are putrid. The Ducks are just about dead last in any advanced stat you'd like to look at. Corsi-for percentage (CF%) (31st), high-danger chances (29th) and expected goals-for percentage (xGF%) (31st), while also allowing the second most high-danger chances against. Gibson is only one man on an island surrounded by feces (shit). The Ducks’ fade continues.

Therefore:

OT included - BLUE JACKETS +106 for 1 unit.

Regulation only - BLUE JACKETS -½ +163 for 1 unit.

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