The Montreal Canadiens are being backed at 1.85 on the moneyline for Sunday’s meeting with the Colorado Avalanche, turning a Bell Centre matchup into an early betting test. Puck drop is set for 01:00 on Sunday 15 November.
That price lands after Montreal beat the Boston Bruins 5-2 at TD Garden and Colorado fell 4-3 in overtime to the Ottawa Senators at Canadian Tire Centre. Jacob Fowler was central to the Canadiens’ win, making 30 saves with a.938 save percentage, while Cole Caufield was among the five Montreal scorers.
The market is leaning toward Montreal even though Colorado has won six of the past 10 head-to-head meetings, a reminder that recent form and past results do not always point in the same direction. The Avalanche still arrive with 6 wins, 2 losses and 2 overtime losses across their last 10 games, and they have averaged 4.0 goals from 30.1 shots while allowing 3.2 goals from 27.4 shots.
Colorado’s attack is still driven by Nathan MacKinnon, who has 14 points in his last 10 games, and Martin Necas, who has 13. Mackenzie Blackwood has also put up a 2.38 goals-against average and a.912 save percentage over that stretch. Montreal’s edge comes from the other end, where Fowler has a 2.11 goals-against average and a.935 save percentage in his last 10 games, alongside 8 wins and no overtime losses for the Canadiens.
The friction is in the numbers behind the price. Colorado won the last meeting 7-3 at Bell Centre, and that result sits awkwardly beside the current moneyline view. Montreal is being treated as the value side because its recent results are cleaner, but the Avalanche have shown enough offensive punch to make the matchup less straightforward than the odds suggest.
What happens next is simple: the teams meet at Bell Centre on Sunday morning, and the next answer will come from whether Montreal’s form holds or Colorado’s stronger head-to-head record reasserts itself.
