The St. Louis blues (2-0-0) will take on the Vegas Golden Knights (1-0-0) Friday. Puck drop from T-Mobile Arena is scheduled for 10:00 PM ET. Let’s round up the NHL odds from BetMGM Sportsbook Blues vs. Golden Knights chances and make our expert NHL picks and predictions.

Season Series: First Meeting; VGK won 2-1 last year.

The Blues earned their second straight comeback victory with a 5-4 OT winner against the San Jose Sharks on Thursday night. In the process, we collected all three bets. They entered the third period up 4-1 and scored 4 unanswered goals to walk away with 2 points. They opened the game quickly with 22 shots in the first, which is more than in any first period in more than a decade. However, due to a bit of bad luck, they trailed 2-1. But they found a way. This is a very different team from the one that managed just four wins after losing multiple goals last season.

Vegas may not be in Carolina, but it was a natural disaster against the Colorado Avalanche with an 8-4 W Wednesday. c Ivan BarbashevRW Mark Steen and LW Victor Olofsson scored 2 goals each in the defeat. Vegas lost a lot of pieces this offseason, but what remains is clearly clicking on another level.

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Blues vs Golden Knights expectations

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• Moneyline (ML): Blues +180 (bet $100 to win $180) | Golden Knights -225 (bet $225 to win $100)
• Puck Line (PL)/Against the Spread (ATS): Blue +1.5 (-145) | Golden Knights -1.5 (+120)
• Top/Bottom (O/U): 6 (E: -115 | U: -105)

Blues at Golden Knights projected goalies

Jordan Binnington (1-0-0, 2.00 GAA, 0.938 SV%) vs. Adin Hill (1-0-0, 4.00 GAA, 0.875 SV%).

Binner stopped 30 of 32 shots in the season opener. He saved 1.7 goals above expectations and really kept the team in it long enough to get going. He was under pressure early and often and was on his head at points in the game. Last year he was 1-1-1 against VGK with a 2.70 GAA and .931 SV%.

Hill stopped 28 of 32 against the Avs in his first start of the year. He wasn’t healthy to play against the Blues last season, but stopped 25 of 28 in a 3-2 loss to them in the ’22-23 season.

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Blues at Golden Knights picks and predictions

Prediction

Golden Knights 3, Blues 2

Moneyline

The Blues pulled a rabbit out of their hat in the first two games of their road trip, and they’re really playing with house money here. If they can get a point on the back end of a back-to-back, that would be big. Binnington keeps them in, but VGK is too strong. That said, we’re not spending -225 on the Knights.

Instead I take JACK EICHEL UNDER 4.5 SHOTS (-165). He had 4 assists and 3 SOG in the first game of the season. I’m really looking for C Robert Thomas to play Eichel tight.

Puck line/against the spread

These teams have played 4 1-goal games in the last 6 meetings. Binnington doesn’t get enough credit for being a good goaltender, and he stands up for these games.

To take BLUE +1.5 (-145) at a very reasonable price.

Top/Bottom

The Under cashed twice in the three meetings between these teams last year. The Over is 1-1 for St. Louis and 1-0 for Vegas so far.

I’m looking for a tight one Friday night, and I’ll take the UNDER 6 (-105).

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