NHL betting

The first thing you need to know about the NHL, from a sports bettor perspective, is that it’s the least popular of sports when it comes to the average amount of money wagered on a single game.

What does that mean to you? More value or less value compared to the NFL, which is the most popular. Strictly form the bettor’s point of view, this is neither good nor bad news. Looking at the totals however, the NHL does match up to the NFL in the total amount of wagers turned around in the course of a season.

While there are loads more bets made on any single NFL game than on NHL ones, the NFL season will provide its bettors with a mere 240 betting opportunities/year, and that is including the playoffs and finals. The NHL on the other hand, will have over 400 such opportunities for you in only one third of the season. That is quite a considerable difference.

One of the most popular ways to make money betting the NHL, is to bet against the public. Betting with the public seldom carries any value, so it is a natural conclusion that you should bet against it, whenever it’s reasonable.

The big question here is: on which games can you afford to go up against the public?

In order to discover that, you’ll need to do some serious research and shop around for pointers, statistics and lines for a while. Remember one very important thing, though. If you do discover something you can make some money on, do it fast and do it efficiently. History shows that whenever inefficiencies are discovered, it’s only a matter of time before the market corrects itself.