Morning Coffee: 6 Of The 8 Stanley Cup Playoff First Round Series’ Are Tied 1-1

At the start of the Stanley Cup playoffs, I preached patience and persistence as the two most important factors when it comes to making a profit betting on hockey this spring.

So far, so good for anybody that took that advice this week.

While I’ll never blindly commit to one basic system, it’s impossible to argue against the early results of the zig-zag betting approach this NHL postseason.

The Florida Panthers, New York Rangers and Dallas Stars all won on Thursday night to even up their first-round series’ at 1-1.

If you blindly bet on the teams that lost their series openers, then you went 6-2 straight up in Game 2s over the past 48 hours.

If you filtered out the Nashville Predators after the Colorado Avalanche jumped to -3500 to advance to the second round following a Game 1 win, then you hit on 85.7 per cent if your picks betting on the loser of Game 1 to bounce back.

Will that early trend continue throughout the Stanley Cup playoffs?

Again, I wouldn’t advocate for blindly betting on hockey with the zig-zag approach.

However, even if the early trend doesn’t continue, the betting market overreactions that we have tracked for each result indicate that we should be able to find some value picking out spots with some more winners over the coming weeks.

Here’s the TSN EDGE Morning Coffee for Friday, May 6th, 2022.

Rangers, Panthers, Stars Bounce Back In Game 2 Wins

NHL favourites went 3-1 on Thursday night, with three of the four games staying under the total.

Favourites improved to 10-6 in the opening round.

Game 2 favourites coming off a loss went 4-0.

The New York Rangers (-164 ML) got the party started last night with a 5-2 win over the Pittsburgh Penguins.

Artemi Panarin led the way with three points as the Rangers