The NHL playoffs are less than a week old and the best team in the regular season, the 62-win Tampa Bay Lightning, are down 3-0 against Sergei Bobrovsky and the Columbus Blue Jackets. Meanwhile, Barry Trotz and the NY Islanders are one win away from sweeping the Pittsburgh Penguins. The […]
A team from Canada has not won the Stanley Cup since 1993, and although Tampa Bay won 62 games in the NHL this season, only two teams with the most regular season wins went the distance in the playoffs to win the Cup in the last 13 years. Only a […]
The Stanley Cup Playoffs begin on Wednesday and the team that was supposed to challenge for the Stanley Cup, the Tampa Bay Lightning, are once again favorites to win it all. The Lightning finished with the most points in the regular season, and are the 5/2 favorite, according to William […]
According to a report by TSN’s Pierre LeBrun, the NHL and the NHL Players Association have agreed to stick with the current divisional playoff format through at least the 2019-2020 season. That news may come as a disappointment to many hockey fans, who have largely been critical of the current […]
The NHL season has one week remaining and three teams in the Eastern Conference are fighting for the final two spots with the Columbus Blue Jackets, Carolina Hurricanes, and Maxi Domi ‘s Montreal Canadiens still in the playoff hunt. If the playoffs were to begin today, Max Domi and the […]
The National Hockey League announced Thursday that William Hill would become an official sports betting partner of the NHL, the third such deal the league has made since the start of the 2018-2019 season. The NHL first partnered with MGM Resorts in October, before reaching a similar agreement with FanDuel […]
The Chicago Blackhawks and the Philadelphia Flyers will open the 2019-2020 NHL season in the Czech Republic, as the two teams are scheduled to meet in Prague on Oct. 4. That announcement came from the NHL on Thursday, with the league also saying that the Buffalo Sabres would be playing […]
Connor McDavid, captain of the Edmonton Oilers, picked up his 100th point of the season with two assists in a 6-3 loss against the New Jersey Devils. McDavid, who turned 22-years old in January, is playing in his fourth season with the Edmonton Oilers. The former number one draft pick […]
Chicago and Toronto are two of the highest scoring teams, and they both have been helping NHL over bettors. The two are scoring goals in bunches, and that didn’t figure to change when the two met Wednesday night. Toronto is tied for third in the league in scoring with 250 […]
The NHL season has about another month to go and teams are starting to make a push for the postseason. Several improved their organizations with the trade deadline two weeks ago. Others haven’t needed a new player to spark them. They are improving with the players they already had. With every […]
Monday Night Football announcer Jason Witten announced he would be unretiring and returning to the Dallas Cowboys for the upcoming season, thereby joining the likes of Michael Jordan, Brett Favre, and Mario Lemieux as Hall of Famers who decided they retired prematurely and returned to the game. Witten signed a […]
It was almost a tale of two conferences for the NHL trading deadline on Monday. The Western Conference teams made some bold moves in trying to get better before the playoffs, while most of the Eastern Conference teams were happy staying with what they have. It will be interesting to […]
The NHL trade deadline may have looked to be a quiet affair well into Monday afternoon, but a flurry of impactful moves at the last minute turned the day into one that could have an impact on the Stanley Cup race. Several teams made major moves on Monday, with some […]
Patrick Kane extended his point-scoring streak to 20 games when he scored a goal for the Chicago Blackhawks in a 5-3 loss to the Colorado Avalanche. Kane, 30, made NHL history by becoming only the seventh player to score at least one point in 20-straight games. He has 43 points […]
A delay is now likely in the start of the massive development project co-joining hockey and horse racing at New York’s Belmont Park. New York Arena Partners, the developers behind the $1.18 billion project, were forecasting a May groundbreaking in hopes the NHL’s New York Islanders would be making the […]
Nobody loves a longshot more than us at Five Bets, and for this weekend’s picks we have included two that we really hope come through. One reason is because of the potential payday. Second is because we genuinely like the person and film we are betting on. Jimmie Johnson is […]
The Anaheim Ducks (22-26-9) ended a seven-game losing streak with a 1-0 shutout against the Vancouver Canucks (25-26-7), which also included a pair of fights involving Ryan Kesler, Josh Leivo, Erik Gudbranson, and Ryan Getzlaf. The Ducks were fired-up and won their first game after the team fired head coach […]
The Anaheim Ducks, the worst team in the Western Conference, relieved Randy Carlyle of head coaching duties and installed general manager Bob Murray as an interim head coach. Murray has been the GM of the Ducks since 2006, but has zero head coaching experience. Randy Carlyle, 62, has the most […]
When the Ian Cole from the Colorado Avalanche leveled Eugene Kuznetsov from the Washington Capitals, Tom Wilson from the Caps took matters into his own hands that ended with an old-school hockey fight. The Caps held on to beat the Avalanche 4-3 in overtime. The Washington Capitals (20-18-6) recently turned […]
In a special ceremony, the New York Rangers commemorated the 25th anniversary of their Stanley Cup team, captained by Hall of Fame center Mark Messier. The 1993-94 Rangers ended a 54-year drought by winning the Stanley Cup for the first time before World War II. Prior to a home game […]
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