Avs Open Playoffs As Cup Favorites Amid Tepid Action On Florida Teams
Colorado tied for seventh in the NHL with 102 points during the routine season, however the Avalanche are opening the playoffs as the agreement favorites to win the 2025 Stanley Cup.
On the eve of playing host to Game 1 of a first-round series versus the Dallas Stars-- who ended up with 106 points throughout the routine season-- Colorado was being offered as the +750 Cup favorite by DraftKings and at +700 by BetMGM.
It helps that the Stars will be minus top goal-scorer Jason Robertson due to a lower-body injury sustained in the group's regular-season finale. Dallas has already been playing without leading defenseman Miro Heiskanen (knee) and hops into the playoffs 0-5-2 in its previous 7 games.
By contrast, after retooling the lineup throughout the season, Colorado has been gaining momentum considering that mid-February. That has caused the Avalanche being backed by the most overall wagers (10.6 percent) and cash (11.0) to win the Cup considering that opening at +1000 at BetMGM.
However, Colorado is not among the book's 3 greatest Cup liabilities.
The top honor in that regard would go to St. Louis, followed by Montreal and Dallas. With the Blues (+4000) and Canadiens (+8000) the two greatest longshots remaining, BetMGM is more anxious about the Avalanche.
It's the two Florida groups the book is pulling for currently. The safeguarding champion have actually drawn a modest 6.3 percent of the cash at +750 currently, while the Tampa Bay Lightning have actually been backed by simply 2.8 percent of the money while moving from +2000 to +1100.
Tampa Bay finished connected with Colorado with 102 points during the regular season, while Florida was 11th with 98 points.
"The Panthers and Lightning are amongst the favorites to win the Stanley Cup but the public is disregarding them," BetMGM senior trader Matthew Rasp stated. "BetMGM actually wants the Stanley Cup to remain in Florida."
Winnipeg, which topped the league with 116 points while winning an NHL-best 56 games, opens the postseason at +1000 at both BetMGM and DraftKings-- the eighth-shortest Cup odds and connected for the sixth-shortest odds at the latter.