Avs Open Playoffs As Cup Favorites Amid Tepid Action On Florida Teams
Colorado tied for seventh in the NHL with 102 points throughout the regular season, however the Avalanche are opening the playoffs as the agreement favorites to win the 2025 Stanley Cup.
On the eve of playing host to Game 1 of a first-round series versus the Dallas Stars-- who completed with 106 points during the regular season-- Colorado was being as the +750 Cup favorite by DraftKings and at +700 by BetMGM.
It helps that destiny will be minus top goal-scorer Jason Robertson due to a lower-body injury sustained in the team's regular-season finale. Dallas has actually already been playing without top defenseman Miro Heiskanen (knee) and limps into the playoffs 0-5-2 in its past 7 video games.
By contrast, after retooling the roster throughout the season, Colorado has been getting momentum because mid-February. That has actually caused the Avalanche being backed by the most total wagers (10.6 percent) and cash (11.0) to win the Cup since opening at +1000 at BetMGM.
However, Colorado is not amongst the book's three biggest Cup liabilities.
The leading honor in that regard would go to St. Louis, followed by Montreal and Dallas. With the Blues (+4000) and Canadiens (+8000) the two greatest longshots remaining, BetMGM is more anxious about the Avalanche.
It's the two Florida teams the book is pulling for currently. The defending champion Panthers have drawn a modest 6.3 percent of the cash at +750 currently, while the Tampa Bay Lightning have actually been backed by simply 2.8 percent of the cash while moving from +2000 to +1100.
Tampa Bay finished tied with Colorado with 102 points throughout the routine season, while Florida was 11th with 98 points.
"The Panthers and Lightning are among the favorites to win the Stanley Cup but the general public is disregarding them," BetMGM senior trader Matthew Rasp said. "BetMGM actually wants the Stanley Cup to remain in Florida."
Winnipeg, which topped the league with 116 points while winning an NHL-best 56 video games, opens the postseason at +1000 at both BetMGM and DraftKings-- the eighth-shortest Cup chances and connected for the sixth-shortest odds at the latter.