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Sportsbooks will also offer NHL betting action on Game 5 of the Stanley Cup Finals.  The series is now tied at 2 games apiece, with each team winning both games on their home ice.  Game 5 shifts back to the United Center in Chicago, with Game 6 set for Boston.  A decisive Game 7, if necessary, would be back in Chicago.

Philadelphia Flyers at Chicago Blackhawks
June 6, 5:05 PM Pacific

Statistically, the Blackhawks are a strong choice to win Game 5 on home ice.  In best of 7 NHL series with each team winning on their home ice, Game 5 is won by the home team 58.5% of the time.  In the finals, however, the home team has won 9 of 10 spots for a healthy 90% clip.  Despite this statistical edge for the Blackhawks, we’re not really interested in laying -200 against the pesky Flyers.

We will, however, look at a position on the total.  Chicago led the NHL during the regular season in fewest shots on goal against with 25.1 per game.  They’ve been unable to bottle up the Flyers’ offense to that degree, with Philadelphia getting 30+ shots on goal during every game of this series.  Heading into the playoffs, the goaltending for both teams was considered something of a liability.  For that reason, both teams really need to score goals to win–they simply don’t have the shutdown goaltending that allows them to prevail in a defensive struggle.  Game 2 was something of an anomaly, but the other three games have seen 11, 7 and 8 goals scored for an average of 8.6 goals per game.  For that reason we’ll go Over the total and get a plus money price.

Bet Chicago/Philadelphia Over 6 +110

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