Jokerit vs Novokuznetsk (Asian Handicap) prediction

Jokerit is fighting for the top spot in Bobrov Division, where the hosts have four-point advantage over SKA St. Petersburg, but there are still ten games to be played until the end of the regular season.4-1-1-2  21-18 for Jokerit from eight games in January, but six of those eight outings were against teams, who are still in the race for a place at top 8 in their conferences, while now the hosts will have to play against the last team in the Eastern Conference.Ossi Vaananen (defenceman), Oskari Korpikari (defenceman / 0+2), Eetu Poysti (winger / 2+3) and Tommi Huhtala (winger / 5+5) are out due to injuries, but Vaananen and Korpikari are unavailable since November.The visitors played just awful in their visit in Saint Petersburg on Tuesday (0-4), as well as in most of their games in January (1-0-2-4  13-27).It's obvious that motivation of the players is on a really low level in this moment and I think that good team like Jokerit will use this and will manage to win that game, most probably with more than one goal difference.