The Chicago Blackhawks have been one of the best teams in hockey gambling the entire season and so it’s little surprise that they owned a commanding 2- lead in the Stanley Cup gambling heading into Game 3. It hasn’t been simple so far in this hockey wagering series and it’s not likely to get easier, but the Hawks are in firm control of this NHL probabilities series vs Philadelphia and if they may have managed to win on Wednesday night they would have had an all but impossible 3- lead in the 2010 Stanley Cup wagering action and be within in one particular win of hoisting Lord Stanley’s hardware.
Granted, if there’s any team in hockey gambling capable of coming back from a 3- deficit it’s the Philadelphia Flyers but it’s not even worth considering, there is such an astronomically small chance of that happening during the Stanley Cup betting finals. If the Hawks had won Game 3 in Philly this NHL odds series is over. No team in NHL gambling history has ever come back from a 3- hole in the Stanley Cup wagering event and it wouldn’t have taken place this year either.
The Blackhawks might have quickly lost both games and, actually, have not dominated in either Game 1 or 2 (slim 1 goal victories of 6-5 and 2-1). It required a late game goal in Game 1 to solidify the Chicago win and in Game 2 more than one fortuitous bounce of the puck conserved the Hawks win as the Philadelphia Flyers assaulted Antti Neimi (32 saves) over the last half of the 3rd period.
But even with losing Wednesday night’s game, the team pulled out the first two wins and is now well poised to capture the Stanley Cup betting title.
Nonetheless, the Flyers are still in the tournament with a win on Wednesday night vs the Hawks. Thanks to a goal from Claude Giroux, the 4-3 win came at 5:59 into overtime.
The 7-game winning streak that the Hawks were savoring until Wednesday night was snapped by this win. At this point, the Philadelphia Flyers are back in the game while the Chicago Blackhawks still have a good enough lead to take the title with the Stanley Cup Finals series at 2-1. The probabilities do favor Chicago after all. Only two teams have lost the series despite winning the first 2 games at home. Only 4 teams have on the Stanley Cup Finals after coming back from a 2- hole. Conversely, the Blackhawks haven’t won the title since 1961 and the Flyers have more a short while ago in 1975. The probabilities do tend to favor the Chicago Blackhawks, even though neither team is exactly playing knockout games.
The Flyers have thrown just about all they can at the Blackhawks and still come up short. That sort of demoralizing effort has a way of ending NHL playoff wagering series quickly. Further more, the Blackhawks have rattled off two wins back to back in this Stanley Cup betting series lacking even the merest input from team captain and NHL playoff gambling foremost scorer, Jonathon Toews (26 points in 18 games).
