Who is favoured, Florida Panthers or St. Louis Blues?

St. Louis Blues, at 55.7% in PuckCast's preseason forecast. That is a rating-based forecast; the full model read, with goalies, rest and form, publishes within seven days of puck drop.

What is a preseason forecast?

A win probability from each team's regressed preseason rating and home ice, the same ratings behind the 2026-27 projected standings. Those ratings are calibrated at the season level, for standings and playoff odds; this single-game percentage is a plain rating formula and has not been graded on its own yet. It is deliberately unsure about any single game, and the confidence grade says how far it leans.

When does the real prediction publish?

Inside the seven-day window before the game. The model re-scores it on every refresh until puck drop, with the confirmed starting goalies, and this page shows that read instead of the forecast.

Florida Panthers at St. Louis Blues, Sat, Nov 14: prediction and odds forecast

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2026-27 forecast · Sat, Nov 14, 7:00 PM ET

Florida PanthersFLA

92 proj. pts · 38.1% playoffs

Jacob Markstrom · 0.883 SV%

Bvs7:00 PM ET

St. Louis BluesSTL

A preseason forecast from each team's regressed rating and home ice, the ratings behind the projected standings. The full model read, with the starting goalies, rest and form, publishes within seven days of the game and replaces this page’s numbers. How the model works

The read

Preseason ratings · last season’s record

at 5v5 last season the two were level on expected goals (50.3% to 49.8%); STL's power play ran at 17.6% against a FLA kill at 81.0%.

In goal, neither team has named a starter. Last season Jacob Markstrom (FLA) saved -29.8 goals above expected to Jordan Binnington's -37.1, on save percentages of 0.883 and 0.873.

None of that is the model read. This is a rating-and-home-ice forecast; the full prediction — confirmed goalies, rest and form, priced against the market — publishes inside the seven days before puck drop and replaces these numbers. St. Louis Blues over Florida Panthers is where it starts, not where it ends.

In goal

goalie board

No starter is named this far out. These are each side’s projected starters on the current roster, with last season’s numbers.

FLA

Jacob Markstrom

SV%: 0.883
GSAx: -29.8
GAA: 3.07
Record: 23-19-1

44 games, 2025-26

STL

Jordan Binnington

SV%: 0.873
GSAx: -37.1
GAA: 3.33
Record: 13-20-7

41 games, 2025-26

FLA	Metric	STL
49.8%	xGF% (5v5)	50.3%
51.1%	Shot share	47.8%
3.0	Goals for / game	2.8
3.3	Goals against / game	3.1
19.6%	Power play	17.6%
81.0%	Penalty kill	76.7%
46.8%	Faceoffs	49.4%

Who drives it

2026-27 projected points

Florida Panthers

Player	Pos	G	A	Pts
Brady Tkachuk	L	29	38	67
Sam Reinhart	C	31	34	65
Matthew Tkachuk	L	23	41	63
Carter Verhaeghe	C	23	29	52

St. Louis Blues

Player	Pos	G	A	Pts
Robert Thomas	C	22	50	72

Date	Game	Pick	Score	Result
2026-01-29	FLA @ STL	FLA	FLA 4–5 STL	Missed
2025-12-20	STL @ FLA	FLA	STL 6–2 FLA	Missed

Team	Proj. points	Playoff odds
Florida Panthers	92	38.1%
St. Louis Blues	94	50.0%

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The read

In goal

Last season, side by side

Who drives it

Schedule around it

Last season, head to head

Season outlook