{"id":306570,"date":"2024-11-05T10:47:47","date_gmt":"2024-11-05T15:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.northstargaming.ca\/admin\/nsgcms\/?p=306570"},"modified":"2024-11-05T10:47:47","modified_gmt":"2024-11-05T15:47:47","slug":"maple-leafs-picks-vs-bruins-november-5-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.northstargaming.ca\/admin\/nsgcms\/maple-leafs-picks-vs-bruins-november-5-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Maple Leafs picks vs. Bruins Nov. 5: Back Boston, Pastrnak against Matthews-less Toronto"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Toronto Maple Leafs welcome their biggest rival, the Boston Bruins, into town tonight. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The pregame narrative:<\/strong> Toronto lost in overtime to Boston in Game 7 last season and again a few weeks ago. To make matters worse for the Leafs, Auston Matthews is unavailable tonight. I expect the Bruins to continue dominating their rival and am also backing Mitch Marner and David Pastrnak to produce. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Check out our Maple Leafs picks vs. Bruins for the game on Nov. 5.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Maple Leafs picks vs. Bruins<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Go to full <a href=\"https:\/\/www.northstarbets.ca\/sportsbook\/sports-hub\/ice_hockey\/nhl\">NHL betting markets<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Best Bet: Bruins moneyline (+132)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"cacheembed:99337\">Embed: #99337<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Toronto scraped and clawed its way to a series-deciding Game 7 last year &#8230; and lost. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But things weren&#8217;t nearly as close in the regular season. Boston has won eight straight games against its rival outside of the playoffs, with three of those coming by three-plus goals. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Leafs can&#8217;t seem to figure out Jeremy Swayman or the Bruins&#8217; defence and are averaging just 1.7 goals per game against them in the last 10 meetings (playoffs included). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Without Matthews, who is still the world&#8217;s best goalscorer despite his slow start, I can&#8217;t imagine Toronto having an offensive outburst.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then there&#8217;s the question of goaltending, with neither Joseph Woll nor Anthony Stolarz being confirmed at the time of writing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Woll has looked shaky so far with an .892 SV% across three starts and Stolarz has cooled off after his red-hot start, allowing 10 goals in his last three outings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Key stat:<\/strong> Toronto has lost five of its last seven games. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Quick picks<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Marner and Pastrnak 1+ point each (+107):<\/strong> Neither team is playing immaculate hockey right now but I love the value of pairing these superstar wingers to find the stat sheet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Let&#8217;s start with Marner, who has registered a point in five straight games. He started that streak with a three-assist game against the Bruins on Oct. 26 and has 14 points in 13 games on the year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 27-year-old won&#8217;t get to play with Matthews tonight but will still get top-line minutes and significant power play time. The PP isn&#8217;t performing at an elite pace but that&#8217;s bound to change at some point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Marner has played at a 1.27 points per game pace over the last three seasons, notching points in nine of his last 11 regular season games against Boston. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As for Pastrnak, the man is a straight-up Leaf killer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He scored the overtime winner in Game 7 and in their first meeting this season and has 62 points (30 goals) in 50 career games against Toronto.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>NHL picks made at 10:21 a.m. ET on 11\/05\/24.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Toronto Maple Leafs welcome their biggest rival, the Boston Bruins, into town tonight. The pregame narrative: Toronto lost in overtime to Boston in Game 7 last season and again a few weeks ago. To make matters worse for the Leafs, Auston Matthews is unavailable tonight. I expect the Bruins to continue dominating their rival [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":306580,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sidebar_plugin_meta_block_field":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[49],"class_list":["post-306570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nhl","tag-nhl"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Maple Leafs picks vs. Bruins: Nov. 5 | Northstar Bets<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Check out our Maple Leafs picks vs. Bruins for Nov. 5. 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