Before every NHL season starts, bookmakers set lines on how many points each NHL team will get. The NHL is a very random league so that usually presents some pretty good moneymaking opportunities.



My recommendations are based on my model, the same one that powers our season previews series which starts next week. If you followed this guide last year, you would’ve cleaned up. Of the 14 recommended bets to make, 12 hit. Not bad!



This year looks a bit tougher though as the lines look tighter than usual. A lot tighter. In the past there have been some terrible opening lines that are easy to exploit (hello 2017-18 Edmonton: 104.5 points), but it seems the oddsmakers are catching up and getting sharper. Or they hacked my computer. There are eight lines within two points of my projections and just nine lines where the difference between the oddsmaker and my projection is more than five points. That means I unfortunately don’t have as many recommendations as I did...