If hockey can return, the NHL post-season will feature six Canadian-based NHL teams for the first time since 1993. Among those teams, the MapleLeafs and EdmontonOilers sport the best Stanley Cup odds, according to OddsShark.
Canadian-based NHL teams were the big winners when Gary Bettman unveiled the league’s return-to-play plans on Tuesday. With the NHL regular season now officially over and the league moving forward with plans to include 24 teams in the playoffs, the NHL postseason will feature six Canadian-based NHL teams for the first time since 1993., deadlocked at +1800 at sportsbooks monitored by OddsShark.com.
Under the Return to Play plans, the top four teams in each conference will play a round robin to determine playoff seeding, while the remaining eight teams in each conference will face off in play-in series with the winners moving on to a more familiar 16-team playoff format. The move to seed teams based on points percentage has been a bonus for the Canucks, who sat just outside the wild card picture when the season halted. Now sporting +3000 Stanley Cup odds atConversely, the Winnipeg Jets tumble from the top wild card in the West to the No. 9 seed as they prepare for an all-Canadian first-round matchup with No. 8 Calgary.
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