As Colorado Avalanche players, staff and fan base continue to celebrate the team’s impressive Stanley Cup winning campaign, oddsmakers have begun to look to next season.
The betting market has already updated the odds for the future for the 2022-23 NHL season and, not surprisingly, the Avalanche are the odds favorites to become the league’s new consecutive champions.
Jared Bednar’s club ended the modern Tampa Bay Lightning dynasty with a six-game winning streak to culminate in an incredible postseason stretch. The Avalanche required just 20 games to capture the franchise’s third Stanley Cup and the first since 2001.
Colorado’s 16-4 record in the playoffs matched the 2012 Kings, 1997 Red Wings, 1995 Devils and 1993 Canadians with the best postseason record since the late 1980s. Wayne Gretzky won his fourth and final Stanley Cup with the 1988 Oilers who achieved a historic 16-2 in the playoffs.
Click the odds makers to get the Stanley Cup odds accurately before 2021-22. Colorado was the list favorite with +450 preseason odds, while Tampa Bay had +550 preseason odds to get a third straight Cup. Both teams ended up advancing to the Final and the chalk won outright. This is an elite bet, especially for a league full of parity like the NHL.
Can Avalanche be the best team in the league for the second season in a row?
Here’s an up-to-date view of the odds of betting on the 2023 Stanley Cup.
The best thing about making a future bet on the Av was that it charged (eh!), But the downside is that there is little value associated with betting the plaster. For example, if you bet Colorado as a +350 favorite before the initial playoff round in the spring, you also charged that ticket, albeit at a slightly lower value, but you didn’t have to sweat all regular season.
The Toronto Maple Leafs (+700) are favored to leave the Eastern Conference ahead of the Florida Panthers (+800) and Lightning (+1000) winners of the 2021-22 Presidents Trophy. In Toronto he came out better than Florida against Tampa in the playoffs, however, the Maple Leafs have not won any playoff series since 2004 despite the recent success of the regular season.
Vegas (+1400) has the lowest odds of any team other than the playoffs for a season. Can the young franchise return to the postseason in its first full season with Jack Eichel on the roster and new coach Bruce Cassidy behind the bench? How far could the hurricanes have gone this year if Carolina (+1600) hadn’t dealt with so many injuries to the fold?
The New York Rangers (+1800) and Edmonton Oilers (+2000) have several key UFAs pending to make decisions and both seemingly have decent value at that top level after promising to run in the conference finals.
How much longer will the windows in Pittsburgh (+2200) and Boston (+2500) be open with the superstars of these teams in the next nine years of their careers?
Of all the mid-level contenders between the 20/1 and 50/1 odds, the LA Kings (+3500) may have the most promising trajectory. They were over .500 and returned to the playoffs for the first time in four years and pushed Edmonton to seven games in the opening round.
The long and long-awaited inhabitants of the basement have several teams with youth lineups with the goal of changing things. The Montreal Canadiens organization (+12500) should get a boost once they presumably select Shane Wright first in the July draft, while there were some teams of evidence like Ottawa (+6600), Detroit (+6600) and Anaheim (+8000). they are cultivating winning environments by building around a young core.
Not surprisingly, the Coyotes (+30,000) end up at the bottom of the standings again next season thanks to a squad struggling to acquire talent and an unwanted situation.
(List of betting odds via Bet365 as of June 28)