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Saturday afternoon will feature a renewal of an Original Six rivalry from the NHL between two playoff-bound teams. Indeed, one of the great NHL rivalries is between the Bruins and Rangers. This hated rivalry dates back almost a century and the Original Six franchises. Boston and New York bring large fan bases of every age group and plenty of history. This year they have been two of the best and most popular teams to bet on with NHL gamblers. New York is revitalized with head coach Gerard Gallant... 

On Thursday night, ESPN will televise what is likely to be a first-round playoff preview between the Tampa Bay Lightning and Toronto Maple Leafs. The Lightning and Leafs trail the first place Florida Panthers in the Atlantic Division. As the two-time defending Stanley Cup champion, the Lightning have expended massive amounts of effort and energy. To win a Stanley Cup, a team will leave everything on the ice and maybe a little more. Consider that a championship run takes four rounds of brutally g... 

On Saturday afternoon, ABC and ESPN+ will offer a matinee matchup of playoff-bound Central Division rivals. The Minnesota Wild are having their typical good but not great season. Minnesota’s big question heading into next month’s playoffs is if a starting goaltender can emerge for a serious playoff run. The acquisition of Marc Andre-Fleury was a tell that Minnesota had no confidence in Cam Talbot. Meanwhile, the St. Louis Blues have goaltending concerns in their own right. Jordan Binnington, the... 

On Wednesday night, TNT offers a matchup of a team fighting for its Western Conference playoff life against the conference powerhouse. The Los Angeles Kings have overcome injuries and a lack of reliable goal-scoring for a tenuous hold on one of the final Western Conference playoff positions. By contrast, the Colorado Avalanche is running away and hiding with the top seed in the Western Conference. Colorado is a Stanley Cup favorite for the third consecutive season.The Colorado Avalanche will hos... 

On Saturday afternoon, we will be treated to an ABC national matinee telecast of two hated powerhouse NHL rivals when the Pittsburgh Penguins host the Washington Capitals. For the past 15 years, the Capitals and Penguins have had one of the best rivalries in NHL betting. It all starts with the personal rivalry between the two marquee men of each franchise. Pittsburgh’s Sidney Crosby and Washington’s Alex Ovechkin are transformational figures. Each arrived at a team out of favor in their respective cities. Now they are leaders of perennial powers. ... 

On Wednesday night TNT will get a potential Eastern Conference playoff preview and a matchup of two of the most popular and respected brands on the NHL board. The Tampa Bay Lightning are a rare NHL team that has won two consecutive Stanley Cup championships. With that success comes the price tag of a premium brand with the NHL betting lines. Players that have been a part of a Stanley Cup champion can verify how hard and demanding the experience is. At the beginning of the experience is all of th... 

The Colorado Avalanche has been an obvious Stanley Cup championship favorite for the past three seasons on the future market. Most gamblers believe Colorado should have won at least one of the past two Stanley Cup titles. Yet the Avalanche could not finish when it mattered most. Colorado will host what could be another future Stanley Cup champion this Saturday. Last season, Pittsburgh was written off as too old and lacking depth. But the arrival of President Brian Burke and General Manager Ron H... 

To begin the 2021-22 season, the Detroit Red Wings were surprising profit-takers with the NHL betting odds. For the past several seasons, Detroit has been going through a slow and frustrating rebuild. But the good start to this year created false hope for a potential playoff berth. Since reality set in the Red Wings were exposed as thin. Detroit will be out of postseason action for the sixth consecutive season. Counter to that is a New York Rangers team enjoying a breakthrough season. New York is playoff-bound after missing the 2021 Stanley Cup Playoffs. First year Ranger head coach Gerard Gallant has engineered one of the best defensive teams in the NHL. New York’s win percentage has improved from .536 last season to .669 this year. The Detroit Red Wings will host the New York Rangers at Little Caesars Arena in Detroit, Michigan. This game will take place on Wednesday, March 30, 2022, at 7:30 p.m. ET, with television coverage on TNT. ... 

The Vegas Golden Knights have enjoyed plenty of success in their brief existence making a run to the Stanley Cup final in their inaugural season. While they haven’t returned to the final they have reached the postseason in each of their first four years in the league. However, a recent slump of seven losses in nine games has put that playoff streak in jeopardy. Following back-to-back shutouts by Minnesota and Winnipeg, Vegas dropped out of the playoff picture in the congested Western Conference.... 

Fighting for a playoff spot in the congested Western Conference, the Dallas Stars take on one of the top teams in the NHL when they visit the Metropolitan Division leading Carolina Hurricanes on Thursday night. The Stars enter the week with a few games in hand on the teams directly in front of them in the wild card standings, but that means nothing if they don’t take advantage of the situation. Doing that on Thursday is going to be difficult since the Canes have the fewest home losses of any team in the Eastern Conference. ... 

Two of the best teams in the NHL get together on Saturday when the New York Rangers visit the two-time defending champion Tampa Bay Lightning on ABC. The clubs are battling for the top spot in their respective divison while at the same time trying to hold off their closest pursuers. They were two of seven teams to collect 80 points and need wins to try and lock down first place, putting added emphasis on this contest. Tampa owns one of the better home records in the NHL and is playing its first ... 

With just three wins in their past 11 games the Minnesota Wild will have a few days to regroup before the Boston Bruins visit the Twin Cities for a TNT game on Wednesday. The recent slide also has the Wild clinging to a playoff spot with a number of teams close behind in the congested Western Conference. The Bruins are firmly locked into a wild card spot, but they have their sights set on moving up in the Atlantic Division. With nine wins in 11 games the Bs have climbed the ladder, but will be p... 

On paper this doesn’t look like much of a matchup. But as we all know the games aren’t played on paper. The Carolina Hurricanes lead the Metropolitan Division with 39 wins and 83 points while the Philadelphia Flyers are sitting in the cellar with 18 wins and 46 points. Still, anything can happen, just ask the Vegas Golden Knights. Philly posted back-to-back wins for the first time in over month with a 2-1 victory over the heavily-favored visitors. The Flyers look to continue their hot streak on ... 

In need of points in order to keep their Stanley Cup playoff hopes alive, Alex Ovechkin and the Washington Capitals tangle with the Edmonton Oilers Wednesday night on TNT. Washington enters the week with a nice lead for the second wild card spot and still has visions of moving up in the standings. After a torrid start to the season the Oilers have settled into the middle of the pack in the Western Conference, just outside the playoff picture. With the season hitting the back slope points are at a premium meaning this game should have a playoff like atmosphere. The matchup between the Washington Capitals and Edmonton Oilers takes place at 8 p.m. ET on Wednesday, March 9, 2022, from Rogers Place in Edmonton and will air live on TNT. BookMaker.eu will have odds for every game on the Wednesday NHL schedule. ... 

Apparently a loss to the lowly Canadiens was a wakeup call for the St. Louis Blues. Since falling to the team with the fewest wins in the NHL two weeks ago, the Blues have won four straight outscoring their opponent 19-7 in that stretch. They kicked off a four-game road trip Sunday with a 4-0 win over Chicago and open a swing through the New York metropolitan area with a matchup against the New York Rangers on Wednesday night. It’ll be nearly two years to the day that the team’s last played, a 3... 

New York Rangers head coach Gerard Gallant remains best known as the hockey coach kicked to the curb. Once upon a time, when the Florida Panthers fired Gallant, he was forced to hail a cab to the airport instead of flying home with his team. Forgotten in those memories is the record of an outstanding coach. For example, Gallant led the Vegas Golden Knights to the Western Conference championship in their first year as a franchise. And now, this year, Gallant is leading the New York Rangers to a m... 

Wednesday’s NHL game between the Edmonton Oilers and Tampa Bay Lightning is a matchup of what is and what could be. Tampa is the two-time defending Stanley Cup champions and they are in position for another long playoff run. The Oilers have two of the most dynamic players in the league but have struggled to make the postseason with just three appearances in the previous 15 seasons. And when they did reach the playoffs things didn’t go well for the Oilers. In an effort to change things up the Oilers recently made a coaching change with the club going 5-1 in the first six games under Jay Woodcroft. ... 

Division leaders in the Western Conference square off on TNT Wednesday night when the Colorado Avalanche visit the Vegas Golden Knights in a key NHL matchup. Colorado has pulled away in the Central Division with an incredible run that’s seen them go 17-0-2 since the start of the new year. They enter the week with a 9-point lead over Minnesota and their 72 points are the most of any team. Vegas enters the week with a slim lead in the Pacific and is coming off its worst loss of the season, 6-0 at ... 

On Wednesday night TNT will deliver a virtual playoff game in the middle of the long regular season. The Dallas Stars have always relied on defense to contend for the Stanley Cup Playoffs. But the Stars’ lack of goal-scoring frustrates gamblers and jeopardizes their 2022 Stanley Cup Playoffs. As usual, Tyler Seguin and Jami Been have not lived up to the billing with the NHL odds. But just as problematic is that the Stars are not as rock-ribbed on the back end for this current 2021-22 campaign. And that had better change fast for Dallas to make the 2022 Stanley Cup Playoffs. On the other hand, the Nashville Predators are in a solid playoff position. The Predators remain traditionally strong defensively and are getting more goal scoring than in the past. ... 

On Saturday afternoon, Las Vegas, Nevada, will host the first of two major professional sports league All-Star games. The 2022 NHL All-Star game precedes Sunday’s NFL Pro Bowl. Although All-Star Games in any sport are not what they used to be, Sin City is the one venue nobody will complain about traveling to for the festivities. In fact, the NHL will start the weekend on Friday night with its skills competition at 7:30 p.m. ET. Last year the All-Star Game was canceled because of COVID-19. Thus, ... 

The month of January was a disaster for the Edmonton Oilers. Most importantly, from a gambling perspective, gamblers were wiped out from betting on the Oilers. During this span, Edmonton fell out of playoff position. However, the Oilers are still very much in the race for the eighth and final spot in the Western Conference. So too have the Washington Capitals been slumping. Still, Washington is in Eastern Conference playoff position but is no longer challenging for the lead in the Metropolitan D... 

The best team in the Western Conference will put their stellar home record on the line this Wednesday night when the Colorado Avalanche play host to the Boston Bruins. Colorado is 17-2-1 in the Mile High City going into Monday night’s home game with Chicago, so there’s no doubt that the Avalanche will be sizeable favorites against Boston per the NHL betting odds. The Bruins are currently on pace to make the NHL playoffs, but they are behind seven teams in the Eastern Conference.... 

The Metropolitan Division leading New York Rangers will face one of the hottest teams in the NHL on Wednesday night when the Toronto Maple Leafs come to the Big Apple in a match-up of Original Six teams. Both Toronto and New York are in good position to make the playoffs as the Eastern Conference is more stratified than it has been in years. Both fanbases have been used to disappointment over the last two decades, but it’s been particularly heartfelt in Toronto as the Maple Leafs haven’t won a p... 

It is looking more like the Philadelphia Flyers lost season of 2020-21 was not an aberration. In fact, the true outlier was the 2019-20 season when the Flyers were a top playoff seed and final four team. Head coach Alain Vigneault has already been fired, and Mike Yeo hasn’t found any answers for a team with some of the worst NHL metrics in nearly all categories. The Boston Bruins are in solid wild card playoff position but have been unsatisfied with their team goaltending all year. Thus, Boston ... 

On Wednesday night TNT will get an earlier start time than what has normally been the case for them in the first three months of the season. Most importantly, TNT receives one of the best matchups possible at any time. The Pittsburgh Penguins have defied the experts who said they were too old and too thin on the roster. While the St. Louis Blues are fresh off one of the best Winter Classic showings of all time. St. Louis and Pittsburgh are two of the hottest teams in the NHL and printing money f...