NHL Playoff Betting

Apr 18, 2008 | By Stan Leung | Picks Articles Archive

Dallas Stars (+130) vs. Anaheim Ducks (-150)
Friday, April 18, 2008 10:35 PM EST
Over/Under: 4.5
NHL playoff betting pick: Stars +130

NHL playoff betting at BetUS.com

The 2007 NHL Stanley Cup champions are done. Heading home tonight the Ducks have no answer for the Dallas Stars and NHL playoff leading scorer Mike Ribeiro. This is a great dog pick to place your NHL online wager on tonight as sportsbook oddsmakers have the Anaheim Ducks listed as 150 home moneyline favorites versus the Dallas Stars, with the game's total is sitting at 4½ at the at Honda Center tonight.

Brenden Morrow, Loui Eriksson, Mike Modano and Stephane Robidas have all played dicplined inspired hockey and Brett Hull has the team rolling on all cylinders. I feel that once Brad Richards gets his game going it will be over tonight in front of the Ducsk home crowd.

Right now no one is playing well especially Jean-Sebastien Giguere who has a 3.50 goals against average with a poor .883 save percentage. His goalie counterpart Marty Turco has a 1.76 GAA and .920 save percentage.

Marty Turco has always been criticized for not winning in the playoffs and after last years great run against the Canucks he has learning how to step up his game in the playoffs.

Beside the goaltending the Ducks have not played well offensively. The Todd Bertuzzi experiment might be over as his career is all but done and the fact that Brian Burke let two key players take half a yeat off has worsened the team instead to helped the team. Just look how Teamu Selanne as played.

As a NHL sports bettor this is a perfect underdog pick to place a lot of money on. The Ducks are cooked and at +130 the NHL betting liners are perfect for online gamblers to make some good loot on.

Bottom Line: Head to head Dallas Stars are 9-4 in the last 13 meetings and 10-4 in their last 14 games as an underdog.

Put out the Ducks misery, they are done. Get the Stars at a good price at +130

A few trends to consider:

Dallas is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games on the road
Dallas is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games
Dallas is 9-4 SU in its last 13 games when playing Anaheim
Dallas is 4-2 SU in its last 6 games when playing on the road against Anaheim
Anaheim is 12-3 SU in its last 15 games at home
Anaheim is 16-8 SU in its last 24 games
Anaheim is 2-4 SU in its last 6 games when playing at home against Dallas
Anaheim is 4-9 SU in its last 13 games when playing Dallas
Stars are 10-4 in their last 14 games as an underdog.
Stars are 5-2 in their last 7 Conference Quarterfinals games.
Stars are 5-2 in their last 7 games playing on 0 days rest.

NHL playoff betting at BetUS.com

NHL Playoff Betting

Put out the Ducks misery, they are done. Get the Stars at a good price at +130

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