Maple Leafs Favored Over Panthers On The Road

• The Florida Panthers are underdogs at home against the Maple Leafs and have lost five straight games.
• The under has hit in five of the Panthers’ last six and 11 of the last 14 games played between Toronto and Florida.

SUNRISE, Fla. – The Florida Panthers are home underdogs tonight against the Toronto Maple Leafs, with only nine more days in the NHL regular season. The Panthers are currently riding a five-game losing streak.

One of those five losses was to the Toronto Maple Leafs, where Florida lost 3-2. A large part of the struggle for the defending Stanley Cup Champions is injuries.

Aleksander Barkov, Dmitry Kulikov, and Matthew Tkachuk are listed as out on the Florida Panthers injury report and four players are listed as day to day. Also, Aaron Ekblad is still serving a suspension for failed PED testing.

With this beat-up Panthers team, the best bets at legal sports betting sites for this divisional matchup is for the Maple Leafs to win outright (-115).

Toronto has been a great road team this season, with a 22-12-3 record. The Maple Leafs are also getting hot at the right time and have won eight of their last ten games.

Take The Under (5.5 Goals) -110

Over the Panthers’ last six games, they have lost five and gone under the set points total by NHL betting sites in five. Toronto has also struggled to hit game totals, with four of their last games going under.

Also, sportsbooks have seen the under hit in 11 of the last 14 games played between the Florida Panthers and the Toronto Maple Leafs.

For players who want security, betting sites like Bovada offer -185 odds for the game to go under an alternate total of 6.5.

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