Compared to the biggies like football, basketball and baseball, hockey doesn\u2019t get as many bets. But it should. The truth is that there\u2019s money to be won in betting on NHL<\/a> because the lines on average aren\u2019t as sharp. <\/p>\n The betting public knows less about hockey on average than about other \u201cevery night\u201d team sports like basketball or baseball; and, because it still has a constant flow of nightly games, bettors and oddsmakers can\u2019t spend hours sizing up a single game the way they can for football.<\/p>\n Try these tips to cash in on NHL betting<\/a>. Like with baseball, money lines are far more common than spreads, so we\u2019ll stick to them here.<\/p>\n While they\u2019re not quite on par with pitchers in baseball, goalies are extremely important factors in hockey betting.<\/p>\n For one, unlike an important position like quarterback, goalies commonly get days off (especially if their teams play back to back nights). <\/p>\n It\u2019s thus crucial to keep track every day of which goaltender is slated to start for a given team. <\/p>\n A squad like Vancouver may not have a big gap between Roberto Luongo and backup Cory Schneider \u2013 but there\u2019s a huge dropoff in New York from Henrik Lundqvist to Martin Biron. For that reason, I recommend picking your hockey games the day of, when you know who is starting between the pipes.<\/p>\n Another thing to watch with goaltenders: history against certain teams. Goalies are headcases. When a certain shooter or team gets in their heads, they often have trouble shaking the problem. Look at Luongo against the Blackhawks. They had him shaking in his boots in the playoffs the last three seasons.<\/p>\n Don\u2019t underestimate the power of special teams. Do your homework; research a team\u2019s power-play and penalty-killing efficiency. If the league\u2019s top power-play team faces the worst penalty-killing team in the NHL, chances are the former will lay a beatdown on the latter.<\/p>\n Momentum can be overrated across many sports \u2013 but I\u2019m not sure if that\u2019s true for hockey. This sport is a true team game in which teams often win based on coaching and belief in a system. Notice how teams often go on massive unbeaten streaks when they get a new coach or try a new line combination? <\/p>\n It\u2019s all about chemistry. Hot streaks shouldn\u2019t be ignored. Same goes for cold streaks. <\/p>\n Ever heard of a coach \u201closing the room\u201d? it\u2019s what happens when a team decides it doesn\u2019t want to play for a given coach anymore…and mentally quits.<\/p>\n When the Miami Dolphins travel across the map to visit the Seattle Seahawks in the NFL, we tend not to bet on Miami, right? It\u2019s the longest flight a team can make and can throw players\u2019 bodies out of whack. Translate it to the NHL. [ad-4437448]<\/p>\n Imagine the Florida Panthers travelling to Vancouver \u2013 then again to Calgary the next night and Edmonton two nights after that. The cross-country road trip can be devastating and physically punishing. It\u2019s not that teams can\u2019t overcome it but it\u2019s important to review their recent track records on long road trips.<\/p>\n Not every hockey arena is a factor. However, the right combination of a winning team, rowdy fans and a claustrophobic environment can seriously influence a game. Whereas the Phoenix Coyotes play in half-empty buildings and Toronto\u2019s Air Canada Centre is a stuffy morgue full of corporate fans, the Bell Centre in Montreal and the United Center in Chicago pulsate with passion. <\/p>\n Certain buildings are especially intimidating to play in and can influence betting results more than others.<\/p>\n On the flip side, there\u2019s value in betting against \u201coverrated\u201d buildings. People assume that Toronto might be a hard place to visit because it\u2019s the \u201cHockey Mecca\u201d but the Leafs actually lost more than they won there last year. <\/p>\n Opposing players, many of whom come from Ontario, love to beat the Leafs in Toronto.<\/p>\n Shea Matthews weighs in with his analysis of how to become an expert as gambling on hockey. He tells our NHL betting fans the key is to look at goalies who are extremely important factors in hockey betting…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":29415,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[50825,50826,2276,1955,1956,1957,10559,2284,50827,1172],"class_list":["post-41110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nhl","tag-bet-nhl-lines","tag-betting-on-hockey","tag-hockey-betting","tag-hockey-lines","tag-hockey-odds","tag-nhl-betting","tag-nhl-gambling-tips","tag-nhl-odds","tag-nhl-systems","tag-sportsbook-odds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41110"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41186,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41110\/revisions\/41186"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}CLICK HERE TO OPEN AN ACCOUNT AT BETONLINE.COM AND BET ON FUTURE STANLEY CUP ODDS AT THE BEST SPORTSBOOK ONLINE!!!!!<\/a><\/h3>\n
1. Pay close attention to goalies. <\/h3>\n
2. Special teams matter. <\/h3>\n
3. Hockey is a team game \u2013 and momentum means something. <\/h3>\n
4. Beware the cross-country road trip.<\/h3>\n
5. Some buildings are tougher to play in than others. <\/h3>\n
GRAB OUR BEST Expert NHL Picks for Hockey Betting! \u2014\u2013><\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"