Generic NHL Playoff Strategies to Keep in Mind: 1: Game 1′s and Elimination Games “Under” the total -with one exception Again this is not a hard and fast rule in NHL betting and with the way the playoffs have started this season you’d be down multiple units strictly living by this rule. But the logic behind it is this; Game 1′s tend to start out tentative with each team going through the feeling out process. Neither team wants to start the series down 1-0 in the series and with many more meetings ahead coaches do like to play close to the vest. Showing everything you have in the series opener will hurt you later on in the series. As far as the ‘unders’ in elimination games go, the thinking is quite similar as the both teams want to do everything they can to keep the puck out of their net. If it’s the team that’s trailing in the series they aren’t looking to dig themselves another hole to come out of to try and stay alive. The leading team knows they have to weather an early storm from the trailer and if they can do that then it becomes a game of trying to capitalize on mistakes during the counter attack. Game 7′s are especially good for betting “unders’ as the “playing not to lose” mantra applies to both teams and you’ll generally see the refs keep the whistles in their pockets to avoid being the ones that decide the game. The one exception to this rule that I use is to avoid playing ‘unders’ when a team is in position to get swept. Those games see the losing team come out like gangbusters to [...]

There's lots of money to be made all season long in hockey and here's a few profitable ways to make it during the regular season. 1:  Money line Dogs Just like in baseball don't shy away from taking a underdog on the money line.  If your taking favorites all the time, they don't always win and if your paying -140 on a favorite it can eat at your bankroll if they lose.  If you have a home team underdog here look at leaning to take them straight up to win. 2:  Long Winning streaks One profitable theory I use here is if a team is on say a 7 game winning streak,  instead of betting every time you think they are going to lose all you have to do is wait until they lose.  What?? ya just wait until they lose and take them to LOSE the next game after.  This works out well during the season because there's always teams that have winning streaks.  The game after the winning is lost theory 3:  Long road trips Every once in a while teams have to go out on the road for 6 or more games and that can be a lot of overcome especially for younger teams.  These trips are tough and can take it's toll on the players near the end of them,  playing almost every other night can do that.  I look to fade the road team in the last game of their long road trip (6 or more games).  Also after these long road trips you usually get to take 3 or 4 days off which can be nice for the players to re-coup so I will look to take that team [...]