I finished off the conference finals with five profitable days in the last six, going 4-2 on Game 5 in the West to win 2.02 units last Thursday. Tonight the Stanley Cup Finals begin with an incredible rematch of last year with the Oilers vs. Panthers again. Let’s win!
Game 1: Oilers vs. Panthers (8:00)
The Stanley Cup Finals this season gives us an incredible rematch of last year as the Edmonton Oilers look to get their revenge on the defending Cup Champion Florida Panthers, who beat them in seven games in the Cup Finals last year. These teams both have been dominant throughout the playoffs, and I think this year can be even better than last year. I broke it all down in depth in my long form preview blog last night. As I said, this is such a tough series for me to pick, easily the hardest pick (wrong or right) for me of the playoffs. I think the Panthers are the far deeper team here, you look past McDavid and Draisaitl, who are two of the best players in the NHL, the third and fourth lines for Florida blow Edmonton’s out of the water. The Panthers defense is better and Bobrovsky’s easily the better goalie in this series. But the talent level and drive of those two guys could completely turn not only a game around, but a series, or even a season. We saw the fight that they put in last year to turn the Cup Finals into a series when they were down 3-0. Connor McDavid deserves his Cup. I’d still lean the Panthers win back to back Stanley Cups and lift Lord Stanley again, but this is going to be a tighter series from the start, and honestly, I’ll be happy as a hockey fan with either result. The last two rematches in the Finals were in 2009, where the Penguins got their revenge on Detroit to win Crosby’s first Cup after losing to them previous year, and Wayne Gretzky and the Oilers getting his Cup in 1984 against the Islanders after losing to that dynasty the previous year. I’m going to stay off a side in these playoffs and bet it game by game from a winners standpoint. That said, this series is absolutely going at least six games, regardless of who wins, so with that, I’ll place my biggest series bet of the playoffs here, laying the -205 for 4 units on the series to go over 5.5 games. I do like the Oilers to win Game 1 at home tonight, since they know that with having home ice they can’t fall back early in the series like they did last year. I’ll take Edmonton for a unit.
Game Bets
1u Oilers ML (-130)
Series Bets
4u Stanley Cup Finals over 5.5 games (-205)
Records
Regular Season: 567-497-14 (-58.18 units)
Round 1: 40-39 (-1.19 units)
Round 2: 24-20 (+1.39 units)
Round 3: 15-14-1 (+4.68 units)
Finals: 0-0 (0 units)
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