NHL Odds & Expert Picks: Who Will Win the Stanley Cup?

With the changing of the seasons and the calendar flipping over into fall, we are now just a couple of weeks away from the start of the new NHL season.

The Florida Panthers will be coming into the new season looking to defend their championship, but they are going to have some stiff competition along the way.

My Analysis of the Stanley Cup Odds to Win

Winning it in back-to-back seasons is not something that we see teams do very often, so can the Panthers find a way to dig deep and make another run, or are we going to see someone new emerge as the Stanley Cup champions?

The bookies certainly have their thoughts, so let’s take a look at the current odds to win it all.

Edmonton Oilers +820

When you have the best player in the league in your lineup, you have a chance to win every single night.

That is where the Oilers are at with Conor McDavid in the fold, but it also helps thar the Edmonton front office has surrounded their main player with some serious talent.

The Oilers finished 2nd in their division last season, racking up 104 points, and they came to life in the postseason, making it all the way to the Stanley Cup Final, which they ultimately lost to the Florida Panthers.

This is a team that looks primed to make another deep run, but will it end with their first Stanley Cup since 1990.

Connor McDavid can become the third-youngest player in NHL history to reach the 1,000-point milestone if he records his 18th of the season before Halloween.

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Florida Panthers +1025

Like we said at the top of this piece, the Panthers come into this season as the defending Stanley Cup champion, but as we already mentioned, this is an incredibly tough trophy to win in consecutive seasons.

There also tends to be something of a hangover when winning the cup, and it sometimes takes a moment for the champions to get back into their stride.

The Panthers racked up 110 points last season, winning the division with the best goal differential in the league.

This team is still stacked and has to be viewed as a definite threat.

Dallas Stars +1050

For a moment, it looked as though the Stars might be on the way to the Stanley Cup Final.

They knocked off the defending champions in the opening round and made it all the way to the Western Conference Final, where they took a 2-1 lead over the Oilers before losing 3 straight games and seeing their cup hopes come to an end.

The Stars won their division last season with 113 points and look set to be very good again this season.

I think they are a good bet to win the West but winning the Stanley Cup is a whole different story.

New Jersey Devils +1100

Heading into last season, the Devils were picked by many to make a deep run after looking great the prior year.

It all came off the rails pretty quickly, though, with injuries and a hefty dose of inconsistency eventually doing in the New Jersey Devils.

They have been busy in the offseason and have a team that looks, on paper, to be more than a little competitive.

The big question now, though, is whether they can get back to the consistent level of play that is required to end the season as the Stanley Cup champion.