2024 NHL playoffs betting tips - Panthers-Rangers best picks - ESPN

Four teams are left in the quest to win the Stanley Cup, as the New York Rangers will host the Florida Panthers and the Edmonton Oilers will travel south to take on the Dallas Stars.

The Rangers and Panthers are led by a pair of top-notch goaltenders in Sergei Bobrovsky and Igor Shesterkin. However, both of these rosters are full of quality candidates to win the Conn Smythe Trophy, which you can find right here.

The Panthers, last year's Eastern Conference winner, are the current favorite to win the Stanley Cup, and you can find the rest of those futures odds here.

All odds accurate as of publish time. For more, go to ESPN BET.

Florida Panthers at New York Rangers

Madison Square Garden, New York, NY; Wednesday, 8 p.m. ET, Watch live

Game 1 Puck line: Panthers -1.5 (+210), Rangers +1.5 (-300)

Series line: Panthers (-150), Rangers (+130)

Series length: Four games (+600), five games (+275), six games (+190), seven games (+200)

Best Bet: Sergei Bobrovsky to record over 36.5 saves in any game in the conference finals (+300). Some of the specials on offer are a little bit tempting — especially after Matthew Tkachuk came so agonizingly close to hitting on the over 7.5 shots in any game, which is alive for the conference finals too (+400). But at the end of the day, taking this saves prop on Bobrovsky is basically betting that the best two teams in the Eastern Conference go deep into overtime just once in the series. The Panthers limit shots on goal, big time, but getting to 37 in extra time isn't asking too much. The odds on the other side for this same bet are for Igor Shesterkin to stop 44.5 and with a weaker payout (+250), so I am taking Bobrovsky.

Stay away from the specials that rely on the defense to score goals