The term “best ever” is just too easily placed on nearly each facet of sports betting and it has lost most of its effectiveness, but to say that the 2010 NHL playoff hockey betting was the best ever would as genuine a statement as you may make.

This year’s NHL playoff betting was the best that sports betting devotees have seen so far, without threat of hyperbole.

The Washington Capitals were already assumed by most hockey sports books as the Stanley Cup betting champs before the NHL playoff probabilities event even started and anyone that made an early hockey bet on the eventual champ most likely put their money on Washington too.

And if it wasn’t Washington then it’d be the Pittsburgh Penguins, the squad that every single hockey betting fan knew was going to compete vs the Capitals in the Eastern Conference playoff betting. Everyone was so sure that the Capitals and the Penguins were going to meet up in the playoff hockey betting event that the Ovechkin versus Crosby series was gaining more hype than the Stanley Cup betting probabilities.

Neither squad made it pretty far in the NHL playoff betting as it turned out. Washington, by far the best squad in the regular season hockey betting (121 points) was bounced in the first round by the #8 seed Montreal Canadiens. Nevertheless they would hardly be the only upset. In fact, out of all the playoff series in the Eastern conference, the Pens first round victory was the only NHL playoff betting 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 speaks volumes about how major of a role that upsets played in 2010′s NHL playoff betting. And that’s to say nothing of the thrilling comeback that the Flyers staged vs the Bruins, winning 4 straight matches after dropping into a 3- hole versus the Bruins.

Game 2 concluded in a hard-fought 2-1 victory of for the Chicago Blackhawks, making it feel like the only matchup in this hockey betting series that had the look and feel of a traditional NHL betting tournament. But that has been the exception as opposed to the rule during the Stanley Cup in 2010 betting event. Game 3 was another high scoring affair with the Flyers gaining their first win in the NHL probabilities series 4-3. The teams combined for even more goals in Game 5, another Flyers victory, 5-3.

For several hockey purists the Stanley Cup in 2010 betting event has been offensive. After all, hockey betting has not usually 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 betting series.

But there’s also no way to argue that the high scoring matches have raised the profile of NHL betting among sports devotees and helped to attract casual sports betting devotees.

If you’re a hockey betting fan savor it, as we could have only seen the best NHL playoff betting season ever and we may never see another NHL playoff run as thrilling and unpredictable as what we saw in 2010.


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