One of the worst teams in the league this season, Columbus will try to beat the team with the most points in the regular season. Columbus, though weaving at the bottom of the conference, has recently started growling visibly, and at least a clear picture of the game has emerged. Yes, the defense is still lame in both legs, but they have improved their “blue vests” implementation and it has paid off. In the last three games, the visitors won twice and lost once in injury time, while the rivals were quite strong, two-for-three in the play-off zone.

Vancouver was humiliated last night in Seattle 1:6. Not only was the result devastating, but the game in defense was simply a disaster, the courtyard and Kraken managed to score more than six goals, but in the third period they clearly slowed down and did not finish off the dull opponent. With Columbus, the game will be different as the Orcs will try to play from a position of strength, but this will expose their back even more and even an outsider in such a game will be able to punish the Vanks for gaps in defense.