The Pittsburgh Penguins are 2016 Stanley Cup favorites, according to Las Vegas New, 28 comments Bovada really likes the Pittsburgh Penguins chances to win the Stanley Cup, and Sidney Crosby's to. April 12, 2016 Share. Link Chain Icon. The field of 30 NHL teams has been whittled to 16 as the Stanley Cup playoffs begin this week. Odds to win the Stanley Cup Washington.
Since the NHL is a salary-cap league which is structured to produce parity, it's surprising that the Chicago Blackhawks have such a gap over the field on the odds to win the Stanley Cup in the season ahead.
The Blackhawks, who won the title in the two previous odd-numbered seasons (2013 and 2015) are listed at +750 to capture the Cup at sportsbooks monitored by OddsShark.com. The reigning champion Pittsburgh Penguins are listed at +1000, with their Eastern Conference rivals, the Tampa Bay Lightning and Washington Capitals, also listed at +1000.
Chicago GM Stan Bowman excels at finding the right parts to complement C Jonathan Toews, RW Patrick Kane and G Corey Crawford. The Blackhawks should be strong, but come playoff time they could have a gauntlet in the Central Division with the Dallas Stars (+1200), St. Louis Blues (+1400) and Nashville Predators (+1600).
Dallas was indomitable in the regular season in 2015/16. The Stars have an excellent chance to deal for a good goalie, since many teams will be looking to avoid losing one for nothing in next summer's Las Vegas expansion draft. The Stars offer more value than Chicago. Nashville also offers value after adding superstar D P.K. Subban to a core group that includes dangerous RW Filip Forsberg.
Among the three Eastern heavyweights, Sidney Crosby's Penguins and Alexander Ovechkin's Capitals are far and away the class of the Metropolitan Division.
Pittsburgh returns most of its championship team, but will have to decide how it goes forward in goal after veteran Marc-Andre Fleury was replaced by 22-year-old Matt Murray for their Cup run. The Penguins' biggest concern entering the season, however, is the health of captain Crosby, who suffered a concussion late last week and has no timetable to return to the ice. That news, released Monday afternoon, could cause a dip in Pittsburgh's title odds.
Washington's window to win is open, and perhaps they can repeat the 2016 San Jose Sharks' journey as the playoff underachiever that has a breakthrough. Washington's Braden Holtby is also a strong goalie.
The Pittsburgh Penguins are 2016 Stanley Cup favorites, according to Las Vegas New, 28 comments Bovada really likes the Pittsburgh Penguins chances to win the Stanley Cup, and Sidney Crosby's to. April 12, 2016 Share. Link Chain Icon. The field of 30 NHL teams has been whittled to 16 as the Stanley Cup playoffs begin this week. Odds to win the Stanley Cup Washington.
Since the NHL is a salary-cap league which is structured to produce parity, it's surprising that the Chicago Blackhawks have such a gap over the field on the odds to win the Stanley Cup in the season ahead.
The Blackhawks, who won the title in the two previous odd-numbered seasons (2013 and 2015) are listed at +750 to capture the Cup at sportsbooks monitored by OddsShark.com. The reigning champion Pittsburgh Penguins are listed at +1000, with their Eastern Conference rivals, the Tampa Bay Lightning and Washington Capitals, also listed at +1000.
Chicago GM Stan Bowman excels at finding the right parts to complement C Jonathan Toews, RW Patrick Kane and G Corey Crawford. The Blackhawks should be strong, but come playoff time they could have a gauntlet in the Central Division with the Dallas Stars (+1200), St. Louis Blues (+1400) and Nashville Predators (+1600).
Dallas was indomitable in the regular season in 2015/16. The Stars have an excellent chance to deal for a good goalie, since many teams will be looking to avoid losing one for nothing in next summer's Las Vegas expansion draft. The Stars offer more value than Chicago. Nashville also offers value after adding superstar D P.K. Subban to a core group that includes dangerous RW Filip Forsberg.
Among the three Eastern heavyweights, Sidney Crosby's Penguins and Alexander Ovechkin's Capitals are far and away the class of the Metropolitan Division.
Pittsburgh returns most of its championship team, but will have to decide how it goes forward in goal after veteran Marc-Andre Fleury was replaced by 22-year-old Matt Murray for their Cup run. The Penguins' biggest concern entering the season, however, is the health of captain Crosby, who suffered a concussion late last week and has no timetable to return to the ice. That news, released Monday afternoon, could cause a dip in Pittsburgh's title odds.
Washington's window to win is open, and perhaps they can repeat the 2016 San Jose Sharks' journey as the playoff underachiever that has a breakthrough. Washington's Braden Holtby is also a strong goalie.
Tampa Bay, led by D Victor Hedman and C Steven Stamkos, has 25 postseason wins over the last two seasons. The Lightning are deep up front and are projected to finish atop the Atlantic Divison standings according to website PredictionMachine.com.
The Florida Panthers (+1600) will be without LW Jonathan Huberdeau (leg) for 3-4 months. That will likely affect Florida's chance to have home-ice advantage in the playoffs.
No Canadian team made the 2016 playoffs, but the Montreal Canadiens (+2500) offer the most bounce-back potential. Franchise goalie Carey Price is fully healed from a knee injury and cornerstone D Shea Weber came back in the Subban trade. History of gambling in atlantic city. A team from north of the border has not hoisted the Stanley Cup since Montreal did it in 1993.
Four weeks into the season, there has been major movement on the 2017 Stanley Cup odds.
Four teams – the Chicago Blackhawks, Montreal Canadiens, reigning champion Pittsburgh Penguins and Washington Capitals – share the top odds at +900 at sportsbooks monitored by OddsShark.com.
And the teams trending the most in each direction are the Edmonton Oilers and the Los Angeles Kings. Edmonton, which is on the upswing thanks to generational talent Connor McDavid, has seen its odds come down from +7500 to +1000. The Kings, who did not record a win in regulation time until their 12th game, have seen their odds rise from +850 at the outset of the season to +2500 on those NHL betting lines.
The Oilers have not made the playoffs since 2006, but one only need look at the recent success of the Blackhawks (Jonathan Toews, Patrick Kane) and Penguins (Sidney Crosby) to know a team which spends years amassing high draft picks can hit its stride very quickly. The Oilers have one of the NHL's most productive offenses, which is going to keep them in a lot of games. Their odds still carry a lot of value.
Results in hockey are much more random than in other team sports. It is not surprising that most of the teams at the top of the board have a PDO – a team's shooting percentage combined with the save percentage of its goalies – well above 100. Teams tend to regress or rise toward the mean over time. According to the PDO tables at SportingCharts.com, the New York Rangers (+1000), Blackhawks and Canadiens are all having a high degree of puck luck early in the season.
In Montreal's case, one couldn't be faulted for betting on a team which now has franchise goalie Carey Price fully healthy. Washington, led by captain Alex Ovechkin and bolstered by goalie Braden Holtby, is off to a strong start that is sustainable. Each seems to have the most solid case among the leaders.
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The teams which currently possess value include the Dallas Stars (+2000) and the aforementioned Kings (+2500). Dallas has started slowly, but if the Stars get an upgrade in goal to back up their skilled attack, they could be poised for a run in the Western Conference.
2016 Stanley Cup Champions
The fact that the Kings have been snakebit scoring-wise during a small sample of games does not mean a team with premier defenseman such as Drew Doughty and Jake Muzzin could not be a dangerous playoff team. The Kings were the No. 8 seed when they won their first Cup in 2012. At this juncture, they have a lot of value.
