Pittsburgh Penguins vs Ottawa Senators Game 6

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Sidney Crosby. (credit: pointnshoot)

Ottawa earned another home game with their game 5 overtime win, but they are still underdogs in game 6.

The Pittsburgh Penguins and Sidney Crosby will be playing in Saturday night's featured game as the Pens have been forced to travel to Canada's capital city for game 6 of their best of 7 series against the Ottawa Senators (7pm ET start). Ottawa are already on borrowed time as they were right against the ropes on Thursday night in game 5 of this series, however the Sens prevailed in overtime and kept their season alive.

Here are the straight up odds for tonight's game with Players Only:

Pittsburgh: -160 (5/8)
Ottawa: +140 (7/5)

Ottawa have been unable to win at Scotiabank Place this post-season as they have been outscored in front of their own fans quite horribly. Pittsburgh tallied 11 goals against Ottawa in games 3 and 4 combined while the Sens were only able to muster up 6 of their own.

Sidney Crosby is the leading scorer so far this post-season and you have to think that his leadership makes the betting line on Pittsburgh valuable.

This looks like a solid time to get your money in on the Penguins but the best betting line for this game is probably to play the OVER. The OVER/UNDER has been set at 5.5 and only ONE game in the previous 5 games have played UNDER that total so far this series. The odds on the OVER have been shortened to 10/13 (-130) but Crosby is hot and Evgeni Malkin is strong in support.

Our recommendation is to tread carefully around the straight up lines because Ottawa pulled a surprise in game 5 and they are a tough team to read. However the OVER line looks like a great betting line to pound at this point.

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