Los Angeles Kings – Colorado Avalanche: will the California wall finally hold? 
This is the tightest series of these playoffs. Two games, two 2-1 wins for Colorado, but the tension is still very much alive. The Los Angeles Kings are really not far off toppling the heavy favourites, but they keep running out of steam in the closing minutes. Now that everyone is back in California, the noise level is about to go up another notch. The home side has no choice: it has to win or watch qualification slip away.
Los Angeles: a plan that drives the opponent mad 
To be blunt, the Los Angeles Kings are playing better than the results suggest. By clogging the middle of the ice, the Los Angeles Kings have managed to shut down one of the best attacks in the world. In the last game, the Los Angeles Kings even went ahead thanks to a power-play goal from Panarin. Sadly, the Los Angeles Kings folded with only a few minutes left.
The plan for the Los Angeles Kings is still the same: turn every inch of ice into a scrap. To have any chance, the Los Angeles Kings will need to stay ice-cold to the final buzzer, and that has been the issue so far. The Los Angeles Kings know they have the system to win, but now they need to turn it into a result. On home ice, the Los Angeles Kings can lean on their crowd to keep that smothering physical edge going. If the Los Angeles Kings avoid a silly mistake in the neutral zone, they have every chance tonight. In the end, the Los Angeles Kings absolutely have to find that extra goal that makes the difference.
Colorado: the calm authority of champions 
Colorado look impressively composed. They are not blowing teams away, but they know how to win the games that matter. Even when they were behind late in the third, they never panicked before tying it up and finishing the job in overtime. That is what big teams do: they adapt to the rough, bruising style the Los Angeles Kings are throwing at them.
Their goalie Wedgewood is flying right now with a 96% save rate, which lets the team play with real calm at the back. They are happy to grind through tight games and trust their ruthless finishing when a gap opens up. For them, the goal is simple: win again by the narrowest of margins while staying rock solid defensively.
NHL prediction Kings vs Avalanche
Under 5.5 total goals
The script is already written: this will be trench warfare. We have already seen two 2-1 scores in the first two meetings, and neither side looks eager to open things up now. The defensive structures are too well drilled, and the goalies, Forsberg and Wedgewood, are both delivering top-class performances.
Expect a brutal, tight contest where every puck is fought for like it matters more than life itself. With an average of three goals per game through the series so far, backing under 5.5 goals looks like the natural call. The nets should stay mostly quiet tonight in Los Angeles.
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