NHL Betting Preview: St. Louis Blues vs. San Jose Sharks Game 6 Odds

It’s no surprise that the San Jose Sharks have been able to win two road games against the St. Louis Blues in the Western Conference Final after the Chicago Blackhawks and Dallas Stars did the same thing in the first two rounds.

The Sharks had the best away record during the regular season, and they will now try to do something the Blackhawks and Stars could not: eliminate the Blues as solid -160 betting favorites (bet $160 to win $100) at sportsbooks monitored by Odds Shark in Game 6 on Wednesday.

The road team has won three of the last four games in the series, and the pressure is on St. Louis to continue that trend or be sent home for the year. The Blues owned the third-best road record in the regular season and won 6-3 in Game 4 at the SAP Center before seeing an identical score occur in favor of the Sharks at the Scottrade Center in Game 5 on Monday.

The over has cashed in the last two meetings after the under went 3-0-1 in the previous four, according to the Odds Shark NHL Database. The over was also 5-0-3 in games between the teams before that under run.

St. Louis head coach Ken Hitchcock opted to stick with goaltender Jake Allen over Brian Elliott in Game 5, and he ended up stopping just 21 of 25 shots. San Jose scored two empty-net goals in the final minute to turn a close matchup into a blowout after taking a 4-3 lead on Joe Pavelski’s second of the game just 16 seconds into the third period.

The Blues led 2-1 following the first period on goals by Jaden Schwartz and Troy Brouwer before seeing the Sharks outscore them by a 2-1 margin in the second.

In Game 4, Allen made 31 saves to outplay San Jose counterpart Martin Jones, who was replaced by James Reimer after he surrendered four goals on 19 shots.

Brouwer did not register a point in the first three games but tallied two goals in the last one on the road, coming alive to help St. Louis overcome the lack of scoring from Vladimir Tarasenko, who has been held pointless through the first five games.