Betting on Ice Hockey with totesport
Ice Hockey has become more and more popular with punters over the last few seasons and with more coverage being made available this season, the ice hockey betting is also on the up.
The main competition is undoubtedly the Stanley Cup, won in 2007 by the Anaheim Ducks, and outright prices are available on whether they can repeat their success again this season.
Each team plays a total of 82 regular season games, with the 30 teams battling for a place in the top 16 in the standings. What follows is an elaborate and lengthy set of play-off games, that end up with the champions of the Eastern and Western Conference meeting in a best-of-seven final for the right to keep the Stanley Cup for a year.
As well as having updated Stanley Cup prices throughout the season, we will also have prices pre-season on the Conference titles and divisional winners as well, with the six divisions all including five teams, usually making for a slightly easier prediction.
There are matches on most days of the week from the start of October through to the conclusion of the season in the middle of April, with a brief break for the All-Star Game weekend in January when the best players voted on to the teams representing the East and West, take on one another in an often high-scoring exhibition game – prices will also be available on that encounter.
But the meat and drink of the hockey schedule takes place most evenings (mainly in the early morning UK time), when anywhere from one to 15 matches are on the schedule.
As well as prices to win the game, where punters can back an individual team to beat their nightly opponent, they could also combine a number of results in any one of a number of multiple bets and accumulators.
Friday nights and Saturday are usually the busiest times for match betting, when teams can play back-to-back games, along with holidays in the USA and Canada, with less games being played on Sunday because teams tend to try and avoid clashes with NFL games in particular, until January.
There are other hockey betting opportunities within each game, with the most popular of those being the spread market, where the favourite in the outright market is given a handicap of a certain number of goals, always a ½ number so that tied games are taken out of the equation. This gives punters a chance to back favourites they fancy at slightly longer odds than they might in the outright.
There will sometimes be a total goals market as well, where you are asked to predict an over or under figure set by our totesport odds compilers – for example whether there will be more than 5.5 goals in a particular market.
Whatever your strategy, have fun with your ice hockey betting and don’t forget to check out all our latest odds at totesport.com.
