The phrase “best ever” is just too easily applied to nearly every facet of sports gambling and it has lost much of its strength, but to claim that the 2010 NHL playoff hockey gambling was the best ever would as genuine a statement as you may make.
Without risk of hyperbole this year’s NHL playoff gambling was the best that sports gambling devotees have seen so far.
Before the NHL playoff probabilities competition even started the Washington Capitals were already assumed by most hockey sports books as the Stanley Cup gambling victors and anyone that made an early hockey bet on the eventual champion likely put their money on Washington also.
And if not Washington then it’d be the Pittsburgh Penguins, the squad that every single hockey gambling enthusiast knew would definitely compete vs the Capitals in the Eastern Conference playoff gambling. The Ovechkin against Crosby series was getting more hype than the Stanley Cup gambling probabilities considering anyone was so sure that the Caps and the Pens were going to meet up in the playoff hockey gambling competition.
As it turned out, neither squad made it pretty far in the NHL playoff gambling. The #8 seed Montreal Canadiens bounced out the Washington squad, by the far the best in the normal season hockey gambling (121 points), in the first round. Even so they would hardly be the only upset. In fact, out of all the playoff series in the Eastern conference, the Pens first round win was the only NHL playoff gambling series on that side of the bracket that the higher seed won. And that means a lot devotees that made hockey bets lost money, but man, what an exciting way to lose.
The fact that a #7 seed and a #8 seed played for the Eastern Conference title says volumes about how major of a role that upsets played in this year’s NHL playoff gambling. And that’s to claim nothing of the gripping comeback that the Philadelphia Flyers staged vs the Bruins, winning 4 consecutive matches after dropping into a 3- hole against the Bruins.
Game 2 concluded in a hard-fought 2-1 win of for the Hawks, making it feel like the only competition in this hockey gambling series that had the look and feel of a traditional NHL gambling competition. But that’s been the exception instead of the rule during the 2010 Stanley Cup gambling competition. Game 3 was another high scoring matter with the Philadelphia Flyers getting their first win in the NHL probabilities series 4-3. The squads combined for much more goals in Game 5, another Flyers win, 5-3.
The 2010 Stanley Cup gambling competition has been offensive for a lot of hockey purists. After all, hockey gambling hasn’t typically been about high scores and double digit goal totals. And there’s actually no way to overlook the awful play in goal of both team’s goal tenders throughout this NHL gambling series.
But there is also no way to argue that the high scoring matches have helped to attract casual sports gambling devotees and raise the profile of NHL gambling among sports devotees.
If you’re a hockey gambling enthusiast savor it, as we may have just seen the best NHL playoff gambling season ever and we may never see another NHL playoff run as thrilling and volatile as what we saw in 2010.
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