Caesars Entertainment sportsbook has graded all NHL division leaders — the Golden Knights, St. Louis, Boston and Washington — as winners in its division futures market.
Betting
The book has graded all division leaders (Vegas, St. Louis, Boston, Washington) as winners and refunded wagers on the runners-up (Edmonton, Colorado, Tampa Bay, Philadelphia).
The Golden Knights, St. Louis and Colorado are +250 co-favorites at the Westgate sportsbook to get the No. 1 playoff seed in the West in a round-robin tournament.
Seven Las Vegas sportsbook operators said they will refund all wagers on regular-season point totals because of house rules requiring 81 or 82 games played for action.
The Golden Knights are the 6-1 co-favorites — with the Boston Bruins and Tampa Bay Lightning — to win the 2020 Stanley Cup in a 24-team postseason format.
If the NBA and NHL return and go directly to the playoffs, the Westgate’s Jeff Sherman posted on Twitter what the sportsbook would have for first-round series prices.
After the Knights acquired goaltender Robin Lehner in a trade deadline deal with the Blackhawks, the Westgate made them the sole +450 favorites to win the Stanley Cup.
A bettor who wagered $100 on the Golden Knights in every game this season would be down $994. Only the Red Wings, Kings and Senators have cost their backers more.
The Westgate sportsbook already had lowered the Golden Knights’ Stanley Cup odds to 12-1 after their fourth straight loss Tuesday at the Buffalo Sabres.
For the sheer amount of pain and suffering it caused in Las Vegas, the Knights’ bitter defeat to the Sharks is No. 1 on our list of the top seven betting bad beats of 2019.
The MGM Resorts sportsbook gambler won $200,259 on a seven-team round robin, $94,050 on a six-team round robin and $20,000 on a five-team parlay.
A goal has been scored in the first 10 minutes of all seven Golden Knights home games to cash a popular prop bet, and the Knights are an NHL-leading 11-2 in that category.
NHL commissioner Gary Bettman spoke Wednesday on the third day of G2E in Las Vegas, fielding questions about how the league finally embraced sports betting.
The Knights closed as high as minus 200 favorites over the Sharks, and bettors also cashed in on Vegas on the puck line (-1½, +125) as Las Vegas sportsbooks took a hit.
The Golden Knights are the 7-1 second choice to win the Stanley Cup, one of four teams with a point total of more than 100 and the favorite to win the Pacific Division.
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