Dallas Stars vs. Florida Panthers Prediction on November 1, 2024

Match info

The Dallas Stars, one of the two teams with the best record in the North American men’s National Hockey League right now, will play the Florida Panthers, the reigning Stanley Cup champions, in back-to-back games in Finland. The 2024 NHL Global Series games, valid for the regular season, will take place at Tampere’s Nokia Arena. The first game is set to begin at 8 p.m. local time on Friday, November 1, and the second one the following day. Let’s check the current form of the two teams and the odds of the best ice hockey betting sites for some lines.

Meeting statistics

The current form of the Dallas Stars

The 2024–25 season sees a lot of activity for the Stars, which could certainly benefit the Texas side organization and supporters. Three clubs have played more than 200 games in the last two seasons, and Dallas is one of them. The Stars will play the champions for two days in a row in Finland during the current week. It’s a challenging task for a team with the second-best record after the Winnipeg Jets, also of the Western Conference team, and a goal of entertaining and making its players learn in the hopes that they’ll be even better come playoff time in April.

Peter DeBoer has been a specialist at setting the appropriate tone ever since he joined the Stars as the head coach two seasons ago. One of the best tests of the chemistry he set in the team with his staff to yet will occur this week in Finland. After a lackluster showing in Buffalo, the Canadian expert successfully led his team in the following match in Boston, where the Stars produced their finest game of the year. The boys in Victory Green were good enough to defeat Chicago last weekend, their only game before the trip to Scandinavia.

Dallas has a 7-2 start, which has been quite the adventure. Both good and bad games have been played; some players have given exceptional performances, while others require improvement. Due to injury, Matt Dumba, Mavrik Bourque, and Tyler Seguin lost valuable time with the squad. Additionally, this team is very different from the one that finished second in the league the previous season. However, the Stars lead in both the penalty kill (93.1%) and GAA (1.89), which has been an indication of systemic carryover.

For all this, they are favorites against the reigning champions, with odds of 1.82 on Vave; the Panthers are 1.99.

The current form of the Florida Panthers

The defending Stanley Cup winners will immediately take a nine-hour journey to Helsinki after they completed the final leg of their New York road trip with a game in Buffalo on Monday, rounding out the three-game series against sides based in this US state.

The Panthers will play the Dallas Stars in Tampere, the hometown of their captain, Aleksander Barkov. The Panthers’ Finnish contingent, which consists of Barkov, Anton Lundell, Niko Mikkola, and Eetu Luostarinen, is eager to host their teammates (the same goes for Dallas’ trio Miro Heiskanen, Roope Hintz, and Esa Lindell).

Speaking of Barkov, he’s finally back after missing eight games due to a lower-body injury, and that was right before a trip to his hometown in Finland. The Panthers will soon be fully healthy for the first time this season after Matthew Tkachuk just returned from an eight-game hiatus. Jonah Gadjovich and Tomáš Nosek are also anticipated to return to the starting lineup at some point during the Global Series.

With six victories and four defeats, the Panthers are already leading both the Atlantic Division and the Eastern Conference, and they might (and should) get even better soon.

Head-to-head

The Dallas Stars and Florida Panthers played 56 mutual games up to today. Dallas won 23 times and scored 167 total goals, but that can’t be compared to the Panthers’ 30 wins and 174 goals scored.

Match analytics

Both sides will play after a long flight to Finland and playing high-level matches last week. That’s why we don’t anticipate too many goals in the first match; perhaps the situation will be better for the other one. Hence, betting under on a total market is a good option.

Tip: Total Under 5.5, with odds of 2.08 on Megapari.

Results of the forecast

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