The term “best ever” is simply too easily placed on almost each facet of sports betting and it’s lost much of its potency, but to say that the 2010 NHL playoff hockey betting was the greatest ever would as real a statement as you could make.

Without threat of hyperbole 2010′s NHL playoff betting was the greatest that sports betting fanatics have seen so far.

Before the NHL playoff probabilities event even began the Washington Capitals were already penciled in by most hockey sports books as the Stanley Cup betting victors and anyone that made an early hockey bet on the ultimate champion probably put their money on Washington too.

And if it wasn’t Washington then it’d be the Pittsburgh Penguins, the squad that each hockey betting buff knew would definitely play vs the Capitals in the Eastern Conference playoff betting. Everyone was so sure that the Caps and the Pens were going to meet up in the playoff hockey betting event that the Ovechkin against Crosby series was getting more hype than the Stanley Cup betting probabilities.

Neither squad made it very far in the NHL playoff betting as it turned out. The #8 seed Montreal Canadiens bounced out the Washington squad, by the far the greatest in the normal season hockey betting (121 points), in the 1st round. Nevertheless they would hardly be the only upset. The truth is, the Pens 1st round victory was the only NHL playoff betting series on that side of the bracket that the higher seed wonvout of all the playoff series in the Eastern conference. And that means a lot fanatics that made hockey bets lost money, but man, what an intriguing way to lose.

The reality that a #7 seed and a #8 seed played for the Eastern Conference championship says volumes about how major of a role that upsets played in 2010′s NHL playoff betting. And that’s to say nothing of the thrilling comeback that the Philadelphia Flyers staged vs the Bruins, winning 4 consecutive games after dropping into a 3- hole against the Bruins.

Game 2 ended in a hard-fought 2-1 victory of for the Hawks, making it feel like the only competition in this hockey betting series that had the look and feel of a traditional NHL betting contest. But that’s been the exception as opposed to the rule during the 2010 Stanley Cup betting contest. Game 3 was another high scoring matter with the Philadelphia Flyers getting their 1st win in the NHL probabilities series 4-3. The teams combined for all the more goals in Game 5, another Flyers victory, 5-3.

For several hockey purists the 2010 Stanley Cup betting event has been offensive. After all, hockey betting hasn’t typically been about high scores and double digit goal totals. And there’s genuinely no way to overlook the awful play in goal of both team’s goal tenders throughout this NHL betting series.

But there’s also no way to argue that the high scoring games have helped to attract casual sports betting fanatics and raise the profile of NHL betting among sports fanatics.

If you’re a hockey betting buff savor it, as we may have only seen the greatest NHL playoff betting season ever and we may never see another NHL playoff run as fascinating and volatile as what we saw in 2010.


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