The United States lost to Canada in the preliminary round of the women’s Olympic hockey tournament in Sochi a week, but they are still pegged as the favorites on the Olympic hockey odds at the sportsbooks to win the gold medal from the rematch on Thursday.
The USA fell 3-2 to Canada in their preliminary round matchup, but readily handled Sweden 6-1 in the semifinals to advance to Thursday’s final. Canada topped Switzerland 3-1 about the Olympic hockey betting lines at the semifinals to get a opportunity to defend their gold medal against the USA.
Along with the Bovada chances have the United States girls recorded as the -140 favorites for Thursday over Canada (+115), together with the sportsbook additionally offering a rink-full of prop bets for the competition – like a matchup of the United States’ Amanda Kessel vs. Canada’s Hayley Wickenheiser for most points in the match.
Kessel is also the 13/2 favorite at Bovada to score the first goal in the match Thursday over teammate Hilary Knight (7/1), together with the Americans the -125 favorites to get on the board first.
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The United States lost to Canada in the preliminary round of the women’s Olympic hockey tournament in Sochi a week, but they are still pegged as the favorites on the Olympic hockey odds at the sportsbooks to win the gold medal from the rematch on Thursday.
The USA fell 3-2 to Canada in their preliminary round matchup, but readily handled Sweden 6-1 in the semifinals to advance to Thursday’s final. Canada topped Switzerland 3-1 about the Olympic hockey betting lines at the semifinals to get a opportunity to defend their gold medal against the USA.
Along with the Bovada chances have the United States girls recorded as the -140 favorites for Thursday over Canada (+115), together with the sportsbook additionally offering a rink-full of prop bets for the competition – like a matchup of the United States’ Amanda Kessel vs. Canada’s Hayley Wickenheiser for most points in the match.
Kessel is also the 13/2 favorite at Bovada to score the first goal in the match Thursday over teammate Hilary Knight (7/1), together with the Americans the -125 favorites to get on the board first.
Olympic Hockey Betting is not overly difficult. In fact, the chances of backing the winner at the 2010 Tournament are pretty good. If you're a Canadian that is. But the biggest problem with betting this year on the Olympics is the new rules. The Ice is smaller, NHL sized and there are a host of changes to the game play. When it comes to Olympic ice hockey Canada and Russia (formerly the Soviet Union) have dominated the sport since its inception and are your best bets. World's Best Player Pool As you can probably imagine, most of the national teams that compete in the Olympic Games are made up of players from the NHL. Olympic Hockey Champions. Men’s ice hockey become an Olympic sport in 1920. The Soviet Union dominated much of the second half of the 20th century, though it did not send its first ice hockey team to the Winter Olympics until 1956.
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