The phrase “best ever” is simply too quickly applied to practically each and every aspect of sports wagering and it has lost much of its potency, but to say that the 2010 NHL playoff hockey wagering was the greatest ever would as genuine a statement as you may make.
Without danger of hyperbole this year’s NHL playoff wagering was the greatest that sports wagering fanatics have seen to date.
Before the NHL playoff probabilities event even started the Washington Capitals were already assumed by most hockey sports books as the Stanley Cup wagering champs and anybody that made an early hockey bet on the ultimate champion likely put their money on Washington as well.
And if not Washington then it’d be the Pittsburgh Penguins, the team that each hockey wagering enthusiast knew was going to play versus the Capitals in the Eastern Conference playoff wagering. Everyone was so sure that the Capitals and the Penguins were going to meet up in the playoff hockey wagering event that the Ovechkin versus Crosby series was receiving more hype than the Stanley Cup wagering probabilities.
As it turned out, neither team made it very far in the NHL playoff wagering. Washington, by far the best team in the normal season hockey wagering (121 points) was bounced in the first round by the #8 seed Montreal Canadiens. But they would hardly be the only upset. The truth is, the Pens first round win was the only NHL playoff wagering series on that side of the bracket that the higher seed wonvout of all the playoff series in the Eastern conference. And that means a lot fanatics that made hockey bets lost money, but man, what an intriguing way to lose.
The reality that a #7 seed and a #8 seed played for the Eastern Conference championship says volumes about how big of a role that upsets played in this year’s NHL playoff wagering. And that’s to say nothing of the thrilling comeback that the Flyers staged versus the Bruins, winning 4 consecutive matches after dropping into a 3- hole versus the Bruins.
Game 2 concluded in a hard-fought 2-1 win of for the Blackhawks, making it feel like the only game in this hockey wagering series that had the look and feel of a traditional NHL wagering competition. But that has been the exception instead of the rule during the Stanley Cup in 2010 wagering competition. Game 3 was another high scoring event with the Flyers receiving their first win in the NHL probabilities series 4-3. The squads combined for even more goals in Game 5, another Flyers win, 5-3.
The Stanley Cup in 2010 wagering event has been offensive for plenty of hockey purists. In fact, hockey wagering hasn’t usually been about high scores and double digit goal totals. And there’s really no way to overlook the awful play in goal of both team’s goal tenders throughout this NHL wagering series.
But there is also no way to argue that the high scoring matches have raised the profile of NHL wagering among sports fanatics and helped to attract casual sports wagering fanatics.
We may never see another NHL playoff run as intriguing and volatile as what we saw in 2010 so if you’re a hockey wagering enthusiast savor it, as we might have just seen the greatest NHL playoff wagering season ever.
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