Apparently, reports of the demise of the two-time defending Stanley Cup champions were greatly exaggerated. After getting walloped 5-0 in their series opener at Toronto on Monday, the Tampa Bay Lightning responded with a convincing Game 2 victory in Canada on Wednesday. Now the series heads due south to Florida, with Lightning vs Maple Leafs […]
It took seven games and nearly a calendar year, but the Minnesota Wild finally figured out how to beat the St. Louis Blues in Game 2 on Wednesday. Now Minnesota will attempt to do something it hasn’t done since November 2018: defeat St. Louis twice in a row. Bookmakers and bettors aren’t banking on Minnesota […]
NHL playoff games are notorious for being tight, mostly low-scoring affairs — especially as the postseason drags on. They don’t get any more tight or low scoring than what the Dallas Stars and Calgary Flames did in Game 1 of their best-of-7 series. The heavily favored Flames potted a quick first-period goal Tuesday night and […]
It took the Colorado Avalanche about 15 minutes in Game 1 to show the Nashville Predators — and the entire NHL — why they’re favored to win this year’s Stanley Cup. Thus, Predators vs Avalanche odds for Game 2 should shock precisely nobody: Colorado is a colossal favorite to take a 2-0 lead in its […]
On Tuesday, the New York Rangers fired 68 shots at two different backup goaltenders over the course of 126 minutes. And their own goalie turned away a whopping 79 pucks fired in his direction. Yet New York still couldn’t escape with a Game 1 victory over the Pittsburgh Penguins. So even though Rangers vs Penguins […]
For more than six months, the Florida Panthers imposed their will on opponents night after night on their way to finishing as the NHL’s top team. Now, after a flat performance in their first playoff game against Washington, the Panthers must summon their regular-season might to avoid falling into a seemingly insurmountable 2-0 series hole. […]
Wednesday’s Best Bets went 2-for-3, causing some serious deja vu from last week, when we went 2-for-3 for three straight days. While we aren’t sure how Thursday’s Best Bets will turn out, we do know one thing: we won’t go 2-for-3 again. That’s because we only have two Best Bets on tap, as our NBA […]
After more than six months and 2,600-plus games — dozens of which had to be rescheduled because of that ongoing menace known as COVID-19 — we’ve finally reached the best part of the NHL season. No, not the part when everyone tries to guess how long it will take Boston’s Brad Marchand to be suspended […]
The saying usually goes, “Thank God it’s Friday.” In the wake of this past weekend of NHL betting, bookmakers are likely saying, “Thank God it’s Monday.” Unless, of course, favorites keep going haywire and cashing out moneyline parlays. From Friday through Sunday, the chalk went a perfect 22-0 on the ice, including 14-0 Saturday and […]
Wednesday’s Best Bets stalled out at 1-2, with Devin Vassell’s strong night for the Spurs saving us from an oh-fer. With no NBA on the docket tonight, we are heading straight to the ice for a pair of NHL picks to get off the schneid. One of them is a fairly straightforward moneyline parlay backing […]
Good news: We broke our three-day Best Bets losing skid Friday! Well, sort of. We went 1-for-2, which technically wasn’t a winning day … but it wasn’t a loser, either. A new week brings new winning opportunities, and although Monday’s schedule is light —the NBA is idle before the play-in tournament starts Tuesday, and there’s […]
Do you want the bad news first or good news as it pertains to Props.com’s Best Bets? Yeah, that’s what we thought, too: Let’s get the negative out of the way. Bad news: We suffered our second-straight losing night Wednesday, going 1-for-3. Good news: The one hit was yet another NBA Prop winner, bringing our record […]