Blues vs Avalanche Game 1 Odds, Lines and Spread

• The Colorado Avalanche are -220 home favorites over the St Louis Blues in Game 1 of their Stanley Cup Western Conference semifinal series on Tuesday, May 17
• Colorado is 5-0 straight up at home all-time against St Louis in the NHL playoffs
• All of the St Louis Blues vs Colorado Avalanche Game 1 odds, predictions and best bets follow in the story below

Will the Colorado Avalanche pick up where they left off last season against the St Louis Blues, or will the Blues offer more resistance this time around?

Colorado swept the Blues aside in the opening round of the 2021 Stanley Cup playoffs. The Avalanche outscored the Blues 20-7 in the process.

In five home playoff games against St Louis, Colorado is 5-0 straight up, 4-1 against the puckline and shows a goal differential of 20-8.

Oddsmakers are anticipating those betting tends to be continuing in Game 1 of this best-of-seven Western Conference semifinal. It’s the Avalanche who are set as solid -220 favorites in the NHL odds to take the series opener. However, it’s worth noting that the Blues are the NHL’s best puckline play this season. St Louis is 51-37 against the spread, with a league-high return on investment of 26.77%.

Blues vs Avalanche Odds

Odds as of May 16th at Caesars Sportsbook.

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The puck is scheduled to drop inside Ball Arena 9:30 pm ET on Tuesday, May 17. TNT is providing the broadcast.

St Louis vs Colorado NHL Betting Trends

The NHL betting lines show the Avalanche, at their current moneyline odds of -220, are assigned an implied probability of victory of 68.75%. That would mean a $10 wager on Colorado would return a payout of $14.50.

As far as the NHL betting trends are going, public betting, not surprsingly, is big on the Blues in the puckline. There’s 83% of the bets placed against the spread on the Blues +1.5. The moneyline splits, though, are leaning in favor of the Avs. They’re show ing 61% of the moneyline bets on the Avalanche at -220 odds. Even though the last five Blues-Avalanche games have gone over,  83% of the public bets are on the Under (6.5).

Blues vs Avalanche Recent Results

Favorites to win in this series, in the Western Conference odds and in the Stanley Cup odds, Colorado was paced in the opening round by defenseman Cale Makar. The chalk in the Norris Trophy odds, Makar contributed 3-7-10 totals to the Avs’ first-round sweep of the Nashville Predators. Center Nathan MacKinnon netted five goals in the four games.

No one is surprised.

IT'S CALE MAKAR!#GoAvsGo pic.twitter.com/bDSQ7rZrHW

— Colorado Avalanche (@Avalanche) May 9, 2022

Balance was the name of the game for the St Louis attack as the Blues were rallying from a 2-1 series deficit to take out the Minnesota Wild in six games. Ryan O’Reilly, Vladimir Tarasenko and David Perron each scored five goals. The Blues are showing the #4 power play in the playoffs, clicking at 30.8%. However, Colorado is the #1 PP unit at 43.8%.

St Louis vs Colorado Injury Report

Injuries forced the Blues to suit up nine different defenseman in Round. 1. Torey Krug (lower-body) is out, while Marco Scandella (lower-body) is questionable.

At #STLBlues practice today, the only guy not on the ice is Torey Krug. Scandella is skating, but on the fourth D pairing with Perunovich. pic.twitter.com/fESsroD7yi

— Benjamin Hochman (@hochman) May 16, 2022

For Colorado, left-winger Andrew Cogliano (upper-body) is questionable. Defenseman Ryan Murray (hand) is out.

Avs Kuemper Good to Go in Game 1

The swelling gone from the stick jab around the eye he suffered in Game 2 against Nashville, Avs #1 goalie Darcy Kuemper is good to go for Game 1.

Darcy Kuemper is all smiles. Eye feels great. “I can see now” pic.twitter.com/GM4gPPggL1

— Romi Bean (@Romi_Bean) May 15, 2022

Pavel Francouz was 2-0 with a .902 save percentage and 2.97 goals-against average in Kuemper’s absence.

Blues vs Avalanche Projected Starting Goalies

Down 2-1 to the Wild, Blues coach Craig Berube turned to 2019 Stanley Cup hero Jordan Binnington and he delivered the goods.

Jordan Binnington is the winningest Blues playoff goalie of all time. https://t.co/TA8P5CB9Ou #stlblues

— St. Louis Blues (@StLouisBlues) May 11, 2022

Starting the last three games of the series, Binnington was 3-0 with a .943 save percentage and 1.67 GAA..

Blues vs Avalanche Game 1 Prediction

This series doesn’t figure to be the slam dunk that it was for Colorado a year ago. The Blues beat Minnesota for their first playoff series win since taking the 2019 Cup.

We’ll see you Tuesday. #GoAvsGo https://t.co/e8csvVzD7d

— Colorado Avalanche (@Avalanche) May 16, 2022

However, Colorado is rested and will come out for Game 1 firing on all cylinders. The brittle St. Louis defense may be in for a long night.

 Pick: Colorado Avalanche PL -1.5 (+110)