2025 Stanley Cup Playoffs futures: Who to bet to post first-round series wins
2025 Stanley Cup Playoffs futures: Who to bet to post first-round series wins
The Playoffs of the Stanley 2025 Cup will begin on Saturday with a couple of openings in the first round of the Western Conference, including one that has the amazing St. Louis Blues visited by the Winnipeg Jets Winning of the Presidents’ Trophy. The blues recorded a 12-game winning streak and won points in 14 of their last 16 regular seasonal competitions (13-2-1) to overcome several teams and win second place on the West Card in the West.
Dallas stars host Colorado’s evaluation in the other Saturday contest. These central division rivals met in the second round of last season, with the stars eliminating the evaluation in six games.
Three other series in the first round start Sunday and two more on Monday before the Stanley Reigning Florida Cup champion Panthers begins the defense of their first title against host Tampa Bay Lightning on Tuesday. This marks the second consecutive season in which the “Florida Battle” takes place in the opening round, as the panthers defeated lightning in five games last year.
Another family party is the west between the Kings of Los Angeles and Edmonton Oilers. The clubs of the Pacific Division, which begin their series in Los Angeles on Monday, are actually in the inaugural round of the fourth consecutive season. Alex Ovecchkin and the Washington Capitals welcome the Montreal Canadiens to match 1 in their series.
The other western conference series set up the minnesota Wild against the Golden Knights gads and begins on Sunday in “Sin City”. Also on Sunday, the New Jersey Devils visit Carolina’s hurricanes for their workshop, while the “Ontario battle” begins in Toronto, while the leaves of maple are welcoming Ottawa senators.
Winnipeg and Vegas are a great western favorite to win their series, as the jet are likely to be around -210 and the Golden Knights are -235 or higher Sports books. The odds also believe that three of the four parties in the East Conference are at the helm, with Carolina, Washington and Toronto very favored to win. Some sports books list hurricanes at -300 or more, while the odds of capital are around -275.
Here are some valuable teams to take into account when making the bets on the victories of the first round series.
The best bets
Dallas stars (+140, caesars)
The stars have lost four of the six meetings of the later season with the evaluation and have only spent 1-1-1 in the series of the 2024-25 season. However, Dallas has the upper goalkeeper in Jake Oettinger, who was third in the Nhl With 36 wins and could be a finalist of the Vezina Trophy. It also has the former Estrella de Avalanche, Mikko Rantanen, a 28-year-old right wing that reached the 30-goal plateau for the fifth consecutive season despite dividing the campaign between three different teams. Jason Robertson, Dallas’s highest scorer, with 35 goals, left Bridgestone Arena in Nashville Wednesday with an arm in his knee after being injured in the final of the regular season against predators and potentially lost the series. But the stars still have Wyatt Johnston (33 career-high goals) and Matt Duchene (30), who spent his first eight seasons of the NHL with Colorado. Roope Hintz (28), Mason Marchment (22), Mikael Granlund (22) and Evgenii Dadonov (20) are also able to get Avalanche Netminder Mackenzie Blackwood and helping Dallas to move to the second round.
Los Angeles Kings (+115, Draftkings)
The Kings have not been very successful against the Oilers in the Playoffs, losing eight of their 10 previous series and each of the last six. In the last three postcards, Los Angeles was defeated by Edmonton in seven, six and five games. However, the kings have a home advantage this time and were the best NHL home team in 2024-25, Going on 31-5-4 to Crypto.com Arena This season. Los Angeles also has a significant advantage in the fold with Darcy Kuemper, who helped guide Colorado in the championship in 2022 and ended in the first five places against the average (2.02, second place), to save percentage (.922, third) and the stops (five) this campaign. Although the Oilers have the dangerous duo of Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl and took place in a victory to lift the Stanley Cup last year, this could be the post -season in which the kings end their drought against their division rivals.
Tampa Bay Lightning (-102, Fanduel)
Sergei Bobrovsky surpassed the 2021 Conn Smythe trophy and twice winning the Stanley Vasilevskiy Cup in his last post -season, it is difficult to bet against a Tampa Bay team that has a couple of 40 goals scorers in Brayden Point (42) and Jake Guentzel (41 years of career). The lightning also have Nikita Kucherov (121 points), who won their second and third Ross Art Trophy this season and led the NHL in the playoff score in both 2020 (34 points) and 2021 (32). Meanwhile, Brandon Hagel (35) and Anthony Cirelli (27) also set up a race rate in goals by 2024-25. Yes, the panthers are the defending camps and wait for Matthew Tkachuk to return to the programming of this series, but the Power Star Power has been marked by suffering a lower body injury to the face of the four nations in February and may not be able to shake the yolk in time to help Florida advance in lightning.
