The Boston Bruins will face a well-recognized postseason foe after they host the Toronto Maple Leafs in Game 1 of their opening-round playoff sequence on Thursday evening as -150 favorites on the NHL odds at sportsbooks monitored by OddsShark.com.
Boston closed out the NHL common season on a shedding word, falling 6-Three to the league-leading Tampa Bay Lightning as -120 residence chalk on Saturday, and has fallen to defeat in 4 of seven contests forward of Thursday evening’s Maple Leafs vs. Bruins betting matchup at TD Garden.
The Bruins’ late-season swoon has raised considerations about their capacity to advance previous the second spherical of the playoffs, one thing the crew has not accomplished in its previous three postseason appearances. However, the Bruins’ shaky efficiency to shut out the schedule has not dampened their place on the Stanley Cup odds, the place they path solely the Lightning and the Calgary Flames as a powerful +900 wager.
Home ice has confirmed advantageous for the Bruins this season. The crew completed second solely to Tampa Bay by going 29-9-Three at residence, together with victories in 12 of their previous 14 contests at TD Garden, and can search to construct on that success of their second straight opening-round sequence matchup with the Maple Leafs.
The Bruins took three of 4 from Toronto this season together with a pair of lopsided victories on residence ice, and enter the postseason pegged as strong -160 favorites on the NHL playoff sequence costs. And Boston has latest historical past on its aspect when going through the Maple Leafs within the playoffs.
The Bruins wanted seven video games, together with a trio of wins on residence ice, to get previous Toronto within the first spherical final spring. The crew additionally tallied an opening-round win over the Maple Leafs again in 2013, with the Bruins closing out that sequence with an epic comeback within the third interval of Game 7.
The Maple Leafs return to the NHL playoffs for a 3rd straight 12 months with some work to do after closing out their regular-season schedule on a three-game shedding streak. Toronto’s season-ending swoon continued a dismal stretch throughout which the membership did not tally consecutive victories whereas posting wins in simply 5 of 16 video games.
Pegged as early-season favorites on the NHL futures, the Maple Leafs have tumbled dramatically in latest weeks, and now enter the playoffs on the underside half of the Stanley Cup odds at a prolonged +2000. The Maple Leafs additionally enter the week lagging on the chances as +140 underdogs to defeat Boston in an NHL playoff sequence for the primary time since 1959.
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