TThe Vancouver Canucks defeated the St. Louis Blues 4-1 at Scottrade Center on Oct 23 in the first meeting of the season. I expect at least as many goals tonight when the teams switch venue to do battle at Rogers Arena.

Here are my keys to the game:

1. Goaltending - The Canucks goaltending situation is far from ideal as Ryan Miller is out with a sprained knee. That means that Eddie Lack will get the nod again, despite allowing five goals in the 6-3 loss at Buffalo Thursday. Brian Elliot has allowed only one goal in each of his last two starts but got the start at Edmonton last night, so we could see back-up Jake Allen between the pipes here. He stopped only 18 of 23 shots at Montreal his last outing and allowed three goals in the 4-1 loss to Vancouver earlier in the season.

2. Trends - Not one of Vancouver's last seven at home have gone under the total and the same is true for all of the Blues last eight playing on back-to-back nights. The Blues will play their third game in four days and the over is 6-0-2 in their last eight such situations.

3. X-Factor - The Canucks Swedish twins are on fire combining for 18 points over their last six games.

Selection: This is a play on STL@VAN to go over the total(10*)