{"id":15402,"date":"2025-12-12T16:52:26","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T21:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.northstargaming.ca\/admin\/nsgcms\/?p=15402"},"modified":"2025-12-12T16:52:27","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T21:52:27","slug":"stanley-cup-odds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.northstargaming.ca\/admin\/nsgcms\/stanley-cup-odds\/","title":{"rendered":"Stanley Cup odds and 2026 NHL betting favourites: Avalanche favoured, Oilers have top odds among Canadian teams"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Colorado Avalanche have the shortest odds to win the Stanley Cup midway through December.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The latest:<\/strong> Colorado, which only lost twice in regulation over the first two months, has been powered by NHL-leading scorer Nathan MacKinnon and Norris Trophy favourite Cale Makar. Fellow Team Canada star Connor McDavid&#8217;s Edmonton Oilers are struggling after back-to-back Cup appearances, but they have the best odds to win among the seven Canadian clubs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Check out the latest 2025-26 Stanley Cup odds below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading insights\" id=\"odds-to-win-the-stanley-cup\">Stanley Cup odds<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"cacheembed:119481\">Embed: #119481<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"thestar\">Looking to get started? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.northstarbets.ca\/register?utm_medium=&amp;utm_campaign=&amp;utm_content=%3Futm_source%3D&amp;utm_medium=&amp;utm_campaign=&amp;utm_content=&amp;clientType=sportsbook#home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sign up here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Colorado Avalanche have the shortest odds to win the Stanley Cup midway through December. 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Fellow Team Canada star Connor McDavid&#8217;s Edmonton Oilers are struggling after back-to-back [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":386900,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sidebar_plugin_meta_block_field":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58,668],"tags":[49,8,314],"class_list":["post-15402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nhl","category-productonly","tag-nhl","tag-nhl-betting","tag-nhl-odds"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Stanley Cup odds, betting favourites 2025-26 NHL season | NSB<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Check out our 2025-26 Stanley Cup odds. 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