Few things are certain in this wild sport we call hockey.
Crazy as it may be, predicting the outcome of a game in which contestants traverse a frozen ice surface with knives strapped to their feet while attempting to slap bouncing chunks of rubber into narrow openings of a heavily guarded net is a difficult undertaking.
Which isn’t to say it’s impossible. At least, not completely.
Those far more intelligent than I have developed statistical models with terrifically high success rates to do exactly that, igniting a groundswell shift in the way predictions have been made ever since.