With the passing of yesterday’s trade deadline, the NHL season is now fully into crunch time as teams position themselves for the post-season. This is also the time of year when teams in contention step up the intensity, while teams that were sellers at the deadline start to fall by the wayside. For the fans who make up the weekly NHL Swarm, determining which teams are set to surge and which will fade away is an important consideration with just 6 weeks remaining to play.

The swarm’s pick of the night tonight was one of the buyers yesterday at the trade deadline. The Bruins helped themselves out by acquiring veteran power forward Rick Nash, and he’ll be skating tonight when they meet the Carolina Hurricanes in Boston. Here’s how the swarm predicted that matchup.

This is one of the strongest consensus formations you’ll see in a swarm. In fact, as the puck zooms in on a Boston win by 2-plus goals, a few participants have to swing their magnets around to apply the brakes and keep the puck from speeding past the answer. The NHL Swarm also assigned this game a high hypothetical betting confidence of $80. Finally, the swarm chose Boston over Vegas when asked which of their most confident predictions was their best bet for the night.

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