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Been thinking a bit about the NHL playoffs, it's normally very heavy in variance and I don't expect this to be any different
with some initial looks it seems there could be some value in a few of the teams
1. The bye is nice, but it's still winning 3 vs 4 matchups for conference (or 4/5 for cup) and yet the odds are significantly higher
2. the gap between some of the teams isn't really that big - after BOS/TB there's a big cluster of teams more or less equally talented
3. the bye teams will play a round robin for their own seed which they likely won't really go all out for just trying to stay healthy + random 1 off after long break variance
so my plan is to target team on the western conference that don't get the bye
I particularly like WPG, they are basically a pickem in their own matchup vs Calgary and yet have some of the worst odds to win conference or cup. Furthermore, they have a boat load of talent on that roster and severely underperformed this season.
Going to spend some more time looking into this over next few days