NHL
NHL · Tuesday 3 November
Oilers vs Devils Best Pick, Prediction and Odds
Bet the Oilers on the moneyline. Our number makes Edmonton a 47.6% winner in New Jersey, and the price makes them 41.7%.
The Edmonton Oilers are +130 and the New Jersey Devils -155 at DraftKings for Tuesday’s game at Prudential Center. With the margin out, that is 58.3% for New Jersey and 41.7% for Edmonton. Our number has the Devils at 52.4% and the Oilers at 47.6%, a gap of 5.9 points toward the visitors.
How 52.4% is reached
Our home win chance is the average of two 2025-26 rates: the home team’s win rate in its own arena and the visitor’s loss rate on the road. Overtime and shootout wins count as wins. Neutral-site games are left out.
The Devils went 21-17-3 at Prudential Center, a 51.2% home win rate. The Oilers went 19-16-6 on the road, a 53.7% road loss rate. Averaged, that is 52.4% for New Jersey and 47.6% for Edmonton. The price has the Devils 5.9 points higher than that.
The margin is the extra a book builds into both prices so the pair comes to more than 100%. At -155 and +130 the two come to 104.3%. With that taken out, the Devils are 58.3% and the Oilers 41.7%.
Every input is from 2025-26. This season is outside the method, and it has gone well for both teams. The Oilers are 11-2-2 and 7-0-0 on the road, and they won 4-1 at the New York Rangers on Sunday, 1 November. Tristan Jarry and Devon Levi have each played seven of their games, Matt Tomkins one. The Devils are 9-5-0, 6-2-0 at home, and won 5-2 at Vegas on Friday, 30 October. Jake Allen has played eight of their games and Connor Hellebuyck two.
New Jersey at home, Edmonton on the road
The Devils at home scored 2.95 a game and allowed 3.02, a deficit of 0.07. The Oilers on the road scored 3.39 and allowed 3.15, a surplus of 0.24. On goals, the visitor in this game was the stronger half last season.
The halves the method leaves out: New Jersey on the road went 21-20-0, scoring 2.66 and allowing 3.17. Edmonton at home went 22-14-5, a 53.7% win rate, scoring 3.49 and allowing 3.41. Neither half is in our number.
The season around it
The Oilers went 41-30-11 with 93 points and a goal difference of +13, then lost a playoff series to the Anaheim Ducks, 2-4 in games. The Devils went 42-37-3 with 87 points, were outscored by 24, and missed the playoffs.
New Jersey’s record leans on close games. The Devils went 20-8-3 in one-goal games and won 13 of the 16 that went past regulation. Edmonton went 13-11-11 in one-goal games and won 9 of its 20 past 60 minutes. The Devils lost by two goals or more in 29 of 82 games; the Oilers in 19.
The Devils won both meetings in 2025-26. The 5-3 New Jersey win on Saturday, 18 October 2025 was played at Prudential Center, so it is inside both halves of our number. The 2-1 Devils win in Edmonton on Tuesday, 20 January 2026 is in neither half.
Pick: Oilers +130
Bet the Oilers on the moneyline at +130. The gap is 5.9 points toward Edmonton, against a threshold of 5. That is a small edge over the line, and it is the whole case.
The line read Oilers +130 and Devils -155 on 2 November 2026 at 17:46 UTC, DraftKings via ESPN. It opened at Oilers +124 and Devils -148. Since the open the market gives the Devils 1.1 points more: 57.2% then, 58.3% now.
What kills the bet
A shorter Edmonton price. At +135 or longer the Oilers are a bet whatever New Jersey is priced at. Against the Devils at -155, they stay a bet down to +122, and no further.
For the Devils to become the bet, they would have to be +111 or longer. They are -155.
The rest is on the ice. ESPN’s injury list (read 2 November 2026) has Devon Levi on injured reserve for Edmonton, with an undisclosed injury, after seven appearances this season. It also has Zach Hyman, Alec Regula and Matt Savoie on injured reserve, and Isaac Howard day-to-day with a knee injury. New Jersey lists Evan Rodrigues day-to-day with an illness, Anthony Mantha day-to-day with an undisclosed injury, and Seamus Casey on injured reserve with a knee injury. None of these is used to change our number. Check the lineups before you bet.
The total and the puck line
The total is 6.5, over +105 and under -125. The Devils’ games went over 6.5 in 35 of 82, a 42.7% rate. The Oilers’ went over in 48 of 82, a 58.5% rate. New Jersey’s home games averaged 5.97 goals, Edmonton’s road games 6.54.
Averaged, the over lands 50.6% of the time. With the margin out, the over is priced at 46.8% and the under at 53.2%, so our number leans over by 3.9 points. That is below the threshold of 5. Pass on the total.
On the puck line, the Devils are -1.5 at +150 and the Oilers +1.5 at -180, which is 38.4% and 61.6% without the margin. Last season the Devils won by two goals or more in 22 of 82 games, and the Oilers lost by two or more in 19 of 82. Averaged, Devils -1.5 lands 25.0% of the time against 38.4% priced, a gap of 13.4 points toward Oilers +1.5. Our method stakes the moneyline only, so this is a lean on the same side. One bet on this game: the Oilers at +130.
Oilers at Devils, Tuesday 3 November, 7:30 PM ET, Prudential Center. Prices: DraftKings via ESPN, read 2 November 2026, 17:46 UTC. Results: ESPN, 2025-26 regular season and playoffs. Injury list, 2026-27 records and goalie appearances this season: ESPN’s game page, read 2 November 2026.