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At which bookmaker is it best to bet on NHL?

author: Betin submitted: 27 March 2015

We are going through bookmakers and their offer on NHL

Playing is not the art, winning is art…

There is no golden mean and it is hard to set a bookmaker which would be best for everyone. We mainly compare bookmakers, taking the height of offered odds as the most important element. Besides we are looking at bookmakers’ limits and single bets.

Comparing the odds on NHL we are taking in consideration known bookmaking companies and one, which is part of American market. We put under analysis match between Carolina Hurricanes and Montreal Canadians and we concentrated on 3 most frequent types of bets. Two way bet (with extra time and penalty shootout), handicap and over/under. In the chosen example on the win of Hurricanes it is the best to bet at Superbook (2,85), instead on Canadians winning at Unibet (1,507). In case of playing on over 5 goals the highest odds can be found in Pinnacle (2,06). However comparing handicap (-1,5) the best odds for Canadian are at Sportingbet.

Table below:

NHL	Superbook			Pinnacle			Sportingbet			Unibet
	ML	U/O	HC	ML	U/O	HC	ML	U/O	HC	ML	U/O*	HC
Carolina Hurricanes	37/20	4/5	63/100	177/100	17/20	61/100	17/10	83/100	29/50	33/20	31/50	1/2
Monreal Canadiens	9/20	21/20	7/5	51/100	53/50	149/100	1/2	1/1	3/2	1/2	32/25	31/20

Legend:
ML – Money Line
U/O – Under/Over 5
* - Under/Over 5,5
HC – Handicap +1,5, -1,5

Bookmaker’s comparison::

	Superbook	Pinnacle	Sportingbet	Unibet
Limits	$250-10000	H, U/O-$5000, ML-$10000	U/O-$500-1500, ML,H-$1000-4000	Given individually
Number of bets for particular matches	8	4-8	20+	60+
Bookmakers margin in %	3.52	2.462	4.162	4.835
Live streaming	N/a	N/a	Yes	Yes
USA players' availability	Yes	No	No	No

Legend:
ML – Money Line
U/O – Under/Over
H – Handicap

Where to play?

Pinnacle sports - company is known for the highest odds on the web. In addition it offers the highest limits on single matches. The offer is not so rich, but there are the most important forms of bets - win, sum of goals, handicaps and bets on the first quarter.

Unibet - Similarly to William Hill the bookmaker is a winner of many world IGA prizes (International Gaming Awards). Unibet offers 60 different possibilities to bet on one match! Scandinavian bookmaker is known for good app and live bets.

Superbook - bookmaker which is characterised by good odds and experience on the American market, the offer of this bookmaker is directed towards the last-mentioned one. As one of the few, the bookmaker accepts players from the whole world. All the most important options of bets are available “live”.

To conclude it is very hard to stick only to one bookmaker. As you can see there is no bookmaker which offers the highest odds on each tip. The fact is that Pinnacle Sports is among the top but others offer definitively better possibilities on live bets, sometimes even higher odds. If we want to take seriously betting on NHl, having an account only at one bookmaker is not enough.