Morning Coffee: Best Bet For Game 2 Of Western Conference Final

The Colorado Avalanche and Edmonton Oilers gave us the 10th highest-scoring Stanley Cup Playoff game in NHL history in Game 1.

What will they do for an encore tonight?

More on that in a minute.

After getting 14 goals in Game 1 of the Western Conference Final, the New York Rangers and Tampa Bay Lightning combining for eight goals last night seemed underwhelming, even if they cleared the total with ease.

The Rangers beat Andrei Vasilevskiy on their first shot of the game and finished with six goals on 34 shots in a 6-2 win in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference Final.

New York was +1200 to win the Stanley Cup at FanDuel Sportsbook heading into Game 7 against the Carolina Hurricanes on Monday night.

After taking their first series lead of the playoffs, the Rangers are down to +350 to win it all.

Here’s the TSN EDGE Morning Coffee for Thursday, June 2nd, 2022. 

Rangers Rout Lightning In Game 1

The total for Game 1 of the Eastern Conference Final was 5.5 at FanDuel Sportsbook.

It was juiced to the under at -134 just moments before they dropped the puck. 

So when Chris Kreider beat Vasilevskiy to open the scoring just 71 seconds into the opening period on New York’s first shot on goal, it probably kept a lot of bettors that played the under off guard.

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A goal in the first 10 minutes was +200 at FanDuel.

It would get much worse for them in the second period when the Rangers outscored the Lightning 3-1 in an eight-minute span to take a 4-2 lead.

Filip Chytil’s second goal in a six-minute span sent the total over 5.5 before the second intermission.

New York never trailed en route to its seventh straight home playoff win.

Rangers bettors after Game 1: