Stanley Cup playoffs odds 2025: Predictions and expert picks for which team will be the champion

In 2025 Nhl Playoffs start on Saturday and 16 teams have hopes to lift the Stanley Cup at the end. It will be a long hard journey, difficult and worthy of the last part.

What team will this be? There are several legitimate contestants of the Cup in a fairly broad playoff field, so this post -season could break any number of ways. Today, our NHL experts have registered their predictions for which teams will cross the distance and have their names in the Stanley Cup.

The favorites who enter the playoffs, according to Sportsline, are the Colorado Avalanche (+750), Florida Panthers (+750), Dallas Stars (+800) and Vegas Golden Knights (+800). One of them will deliver these expectations or a subdog like the St. Louis Blues (+3500) or Montreal Canadiens (+6000) will combine a miraculous race?

In the coming months they will be filled with the best hockey players in the world fighting for the most coveted prize in the game. With so much line, our experts decided to make some early elections on which team will lift the cup when the final tube sounds at the end of the post -season.

Playoffs of the Stanley Cup 2025: Picks, predictions for all first round series, including Panthers vs. Lightning

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Serbison: I truly believe that the winner of the series between the avalanche and the stars will win the West, and I have the AVs they take. In the last two publications, Colorado has not had the central depth needed for a deep career, but this has now changed with Brock Nelson and Charlie Coyle behind Nathan Mackinnon. This is more than enough to navigate a hard field in the West. In the east, lightning will show that they are still a playoff juggler. The screws manage to Andrei Vasilevskiy Vintage and capture another conference title.

This establishes a resuscitation of the Final of the Stanley Cup of 2022, which the Avalanche won in six games. This time, Tampa Bay will be able to hang a little more, but the speed and skill of the AVS show too much that the lightning blue line of lightning. PICK – AVALANCHE DEF. Lightning 4-3 (Avalanche Future probabilities: +750)

Sticks: Lightning saw the Steven Stamkos franchise icon departing through the door and signing with free agency predators this past summer. However, the lightning were equipped for this loss, as they purchased Jake Guentzel ahead of the free agency. Undoubtedly, this addition may have been the missing piece, as it collected 41 career goals during the regular season. Guentzel’s presence with Nikita Kucherov, Brayden Point and Brandon Hagel, gave Tampa Bay one of the most dangerous groups in the league.

As it should not be surprised, the lightning bolt ended up leading the NHL with 3.56 goals per contest and has one of the best power units offered by the league. Kucherov, who led the NHL at points, is still an elite player who can help carry the offensive load, although he does not even have to. Apart from offensive power, perhaps the best thing the lightning has gone through is the playoff experience by Andrei Vasilevskiy. This is a goalkeeper who has prospered on the big stage of the past. Vasilevskiy coincided with 1.90 goals in the average of each of the winning seasons of the Tampa Bay Stanley Cup in 2020 and 2021.When Vasilevsky is at the top of his game, there are few centers that are better.

After losing in the first round in each of the last two seasons, the lightning bolt reloaded its list with Guentzel and Ryan McDonagh (for the second time). The offensive fire force, Victor Hedman at the helm, and Vasilevsky in the goal is a recipe for a Stanley Cup, and this group is proven with battle. Pick – Lightning Def. Golden Knights 4-3 (Lightning Future Odds: +900)