NHL Betting: Washington Tops Pittsburgh at LinesMaker

NHL Betting: Washington Tops Pittsburgh

The Wash­ing­ton Cap­i­tals ral­lied over the Pitts­burgh Pen­guins 1–0 Mon­day, cour­tesy of Michal Neu­virth and Alex Ovechkin who reg­is­tered a 39-shot shutout and pulled in the lone goal, respectively.

Attract­ing nearly 60% of the NHL bet­ting action, the Wash­ing­ton Cap­i­tals were the clear favorites against Pitts­burgh among Lines­Maker bet­tors. With the NHL lines at –130, Wash­ing­ton rejoiced the major­ity of bet­tors by defeat­ing the Pen­guins (+120).

Increas­ing his record to 18–9-4, Neu­virth reg­is­tered his third shutout of his career for Wash­ing­ton, who won in Pitts­burgh for 10th time in 12 con­tests. Ovechkin scored on a pass from Mar­cus Johans­son dur­ing a power play with less than 4 min­utes left in the sec­ond for the Cap­i­tals, who improved to 3–2-0 on their seven-game road trip.

Marc-Andre Fleury pre­vented 23-of-24 shots for the Pen­guins, who dropped to 2–6-0 after eight con­tests, and are lag­ging behind Philadel­phia by five points in the Atlantic Division.

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