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The New Jersey will drive up the 5 Freeway to continue their Southern California road trip as they face the Los Angeles Kings. It's time to continue our NHL odds series with a Devils-Kings prediction and pick. The Devils are coming off a 6-2 victory over the Anaheim Ducks at Honda Center. Significantly, Jesper Bratt led the way with two goals.…

San Jose Sharks vs Los Angeles Kings 1/11/2023 Picks Predictions Previews The San Jose Sharks will play against the Los Angeles Kings at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, California on Wednesday, January 11, 2023, at 10:00 PM (EDT). The Sharks are in seventh place in the Pacific Division with an overall record of 13-21-8. The team escaped from a…

Welcome to VSiN's NHL Bets page. Your source for comprehensive and dynamic hockey betting analysis. Read on for odds, predictions and best bets for December 13. Follow me on to stay up to date. Tuesday's Bets: There are currently no best bets. I'm tracking all my plays on Betstamp: a third party bet tracking app. The bets reveal themselves after…

It feels like we have been discussing the possibility of a Jakob Chychrun trade out of Arizona for nearly two years now. While the defenseman still remains a member of the Coyotes and will seemingly start the season out in the desert, it's very likely he'll be donning a different sweater by the end of the year. The 24-year-old talked about the last…

This Monday has an exciting slate of games, with a couple of teams playing well recently. We also have a matchup with some struggling teams that would love to come away with two points. Here are my top picks of Monday's NHL slate. And here's a closer look at Kings vs. Flames. Los Angeles Kings ( +130) vs. Calgary Flames ( -156) | o/u 6.5…

The 2021-22 NHL season goes on with a five-game Wednesday card, so we are taking a closer look at the Western Conference showdown at Gila River Arena to get you the best Kings vs. Coyotes betting pick and odds. Los Angeles and Arizona wrap up their three-game regular-season set after splitting their first two encounters in 2021-22. The Kings are…

Minnesota is off to a bit of a slow start as they face the upstart Seattle Kraken this Friday night. Seattle seems to have found their footing in their second year while the Wild are feeling the weight of expectations. The Wild defeated the Ducks 4-1 on Wednesday night. Seattle is home again after beating up on Nashville 5-1 on Tuesday. Minnesota…

The Los Angeles Kings will stay in the Bay Area as they take on the San Jose Sharks once again after these two teams played each other on Thursday where the Sharks ultimately beat the Kings 4-3 in overtime. That win gives San Jose a 2-0 lead in the season series so far where tonight's game will be their second game against each other out of three…

slate is four games this Wednesday night. It is the middle of the week, so usually, this is the calmer time. Many sports are going on, and thanks again for following us at gambling.com. Let's keep doing that hockey! The Panthers have been meandering along. There was some encouraging news with Aaron Ekblad seen practicing with the team. Florida…

The Edmonton Oilers are back on home ice as they take on the Los Angeles Kings in game seven tonight. This series has been wild to watch, starting with an upset in game one, giving the Kings an early lead in the series. Everybody thought the Oilers would dominate the Kings in this series but they just refuse to roll over. Can the Kings pull off one…

Simply put, the Avalanche have dominated the Los Angeles Kings over the last year and change. Tonight, with the Kings fielding a weak blueline, our NHL betting picks and predictions don't see it going much differently. The Colorado Avalanche returned to their winning ways against Calgary two nights ago and look to knock off another top Pacific…

After stealing Game 1 on the road, Los Angeles will look to take a 2-0 series lead back to California. Find out why we think it can beat Edmonton again in Game 2 in our NHL betting picks and predictions for Kings vs. Oilers. The Los Angeles Kings walked into Rogers Place and stole Game 1 from the Edmonton Oilers, thanks to a third-period blunder…

It's crunch time for a Vegas team just clinging to a playoff spot, with a rock-solid Los Angeles team coming to the desert Saturday night. We break it down for you in our Kings vs. Golden Knights NHL betting picks. Both the Los Angeles Kings and Vegas Golden Knights are having to make do with less, as the two teams are decimated with injuries. They…

Strap yourselves in, hockey fans. You're in for an epic night of drama. Three Game 7s will be played Saturday night as six teams clash for the right to move on to the second round. The stakes get raised in a Game 7, with every play heightened and every decision under more scrutiny. Will the Maple Leafs erase their playoff demons and end the…

Hello everyone, and welcome to another. The summer was an actual summer this offseason, as there have been more than 3 ½ months since the Colorado Avalanche won the Stanley Cup. Let's jump in as we look at four more teams who begin their season on Tuesday night. Two might wind up facing each other in the East again. The other two are Pacific…

There are few months as busy as October on the sports calendar, and that's about to be amplified starting Tuesday as the NHL drops the puck on a new season. Opening night of 2022-23 features just two contests, as the Lightning visit the Rangers, and the Golden Knights face the Kings. The latter matchup captures our attention from a betting…

The Vegas Golden Knights and Los Angeles Kings will face off in L.A. on Tuesday night as the puck drops on the 2022-23 NHL season. The Golden Knights surprisingly missed the playoffs last season due to some injuries and underperformances. They didn't get much better in the offseason, either, with goaltender Robin Lehner out for the season and…

The National Hockey League returns tonight as we gear up for a couple of exciting matchups. Action gets underway in the Big Apple with a repeat of last year's Eastern Conference Final as the Tampa Bay Lightning take on the New York Rangers. Then we head out west to wrap up the opening day slate with a Pacific Division clash between the Vegas Golden…

The National Hockey League returns tonight as we gear up for a couple of exciting matchups. Action gets underway in the Big Apple with a repeat of last year's Eastern Conference Final as the Tampa Bay Lightning take on the New York Rangers. Then we head out west to wrap up the opening day slate with a Pacific Division clash between the Vegas Golden…

The Los Angeles Kings and Vegas Golden Knights get their seasons going tonight, with both teams having high aspirations. Our NHL betting picks will be zoning in on Anze Kopitar and why we think he's in for a big game. The Los Angeles Kings will look to build off last year's playoff run when they open their season tonight vs. the Vegas Golden…

Anaheim provides decent value, but L.A. is playing better right now. Either way, expect plenty of goals when these playoff-jockeying West foes face off Friday night. Get the scoop with our Kings vs. Ducks picks. Friday night gives us a classic battle of California as the Los Angeles Kings visit the Anaheim Ducks. Only two points separate the two…

Last year's Kings surprised pleasantly, defying sportsbook odds and snapping a string of three non-playoff seasons before bowing out against the Edmonton Oilers in a grueling seven-game series. This year's group, which remained almost entirely intact and added a point-per-game winger in Kevin Fiala, enters the season with bigger billing and higher…

With the NHL season arriving, now is the time for fans and bettors to really start perusing the futures markets. There's no shortage of markets for fans to wager on, from picking your team to win the Stanley Cup to betting on various of player awards. We searched the futures bets available at NorthStar Bets high and low to pick out some of our…

The 2022-23 National Hockey League season will officially begin when the puck drops at the O2 Arena in Prague, the Czech Republic, on Friday, October 7, 2022. The league's Global Series will pit the Nashville Predators against the San Jose Sharks in a match-up between Western Conference rivals. Four nights later, on October 11, 2022, the season…

It was a renaissance of a season for the Los Angeles Kings in 2021-22. While some of the team's newer stars did contribute, it was the aging core doing the heavy lifting. The Kings crushed their 85½-point expectations entering the season, having finished with 99. As an encore, the NHL betting odds expect the Kings to return to the playoffs with…

Published every Wednesday, we will take stock of all 32 teams and move them up and down as the season progresses based on their weekly performance. The reason? To ascertain a clear hierarchy of teams by the conclusion of the season, and also because lists are fun. (Scroll to the very bottom to see your favorite team). Last season, 15 of the top 16…

Fortune favors the bold, or so the saying goes. Even conservatively handicapping a sport as unpredictable as hockey - where seemingly every season, there are two or three jaw-dropping surprises in the standings based on the bounces of a frozen vulcanized rubber disk - can leave you looking foolish. We're throwing conservative selections out the…

The Pacific Division is probably the weakest it's been in quite some time. Outside of the Calgary Flames and the Edmonton Oilers, there's reason to believe that any of the remaining five teams in the division could vie for that third playoff spot or the wild card position - well, except for the San Jose Sharks, who are presently in no man's land…

Mikey Anderson has been around Southern California long enough to appreciate its virtues. Namely the appeal of its nearby beaches. But the 23-year-old is Minnesota born and bred. And for the Kings defenseman, there isn't much that beats lake life in the summer. "I laugh because everyone makes fun of the Minnesota guys for how much they love…

When the San Jose Sharks (24-25-7, seventh Pacific) take on the Los Angeles Kings (32-19-7, second Pacific), they will buoying themselves against a team riding a three-game wave of recent wins. The hosting Kings are in prime position to make the playoffs, trailing only the Calgary Flames in the Pacific Division. The Sharks, on the other hand, are…

There is a lot of uncertainty heading into this Boston Bruins season. Star players are recovering from injuries and Patrice Bergeron and David Krejci are returning for a campaign that might be their curtain call. The salary cap situation that is, at best, frustrating and at worst paralyzing. As a result, predicting how the Bruins' season will go…

The current class of the NHL - the Colorado Avalanche - will look for yet another victory on Tuesday night when they take on the Los Angeles Kings at Crypto.com Arena. The Avs are still negotiating the injury to team captain Gabriel Landeskog, but the Kings are in a far worse state injury-wise with team captain Dustin Brown and stalwart defenseman…

Our feature grading the positional depth of each NHL team continues this week, with a focus on the blueline. If you missed our prior talent tiers, they are referenced below - please check them out. Our approach to grading defencemen will be similar, but not identical to the way we evaluated forwards. We overweight top-four defenders - for most…