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Two of the best words in sports are Game 7, unless of course you are the Washington Capitals.

Covers Expert Art Aronson of AAA Sports takes a look at some of the best betting opportunities for the upcoming week of playoff hockey.

Covers Expert Art Aronson of AAA Sports takes a look at some of the best betting opportunities for the upcoming week of playoff hockey.

Captain Steven Stamkos scored a team-leading 43 goals during the regular season but has been limited to just two assists in the series. "I'm working hard and competing, but it's just not going my way," Stamkos said. "I have to do better. No one said it was going to be easy." Tyler Johnson leads the club with four tallies - two each in Games 2 and 4.

Dating back to the 2011 NHL Playoffs, the New York Rangers have skated to an Over/Under record of 16-31-19 in 66 postseason games. If you've blindly bet the under, you've cashed in at a rate of 66 percent in those games.

Usually, NHL bettors can count on assessing the goals-per-game average as a two minute penalty for taking a dive in the postseason and they look to the ‘under’ as a power play. That wasn’t the case during the 2013-14, however, as goals-per-game numbers took a significant jump from 5.34 goals per game in the regular season to 5.59 goals per game in the playoffs.

Dale Weise is hardly considered one of the team's primary goal scorers, but he was presented with a new nickname: "Mr. Clutch." "I don't know if you can call me that yet," said Weise, who has five goals and four assists in 19 playoff games over the last two seasons. The 26-year-old's totals are a significant upgrade from his 45 points (16 goals, 29 assists) in 140 regular-season contests in that same span.

Covers Expert Art Aronson of AAA Sports takes a look at some of the best betting opportunities for the upcoming week of playoff hockey.

The Over has gone a perfect 3-0 through the first three games of the series between the Chicago Blackhawks and Nashville Predators.

With the Stanley Cup playoffs getting underway Wednesday, it is the President's Trophy winners, the New York Rangers, who are favored to hoist the Cup above their heads come June.

Following the lockout, which brought with it numerous rule changes to help speed up the game and increase scoring, the 2005-06 NHL season had 1,064 regular season games (all but 166 games) with a betting total of six goals or more. This year, NHL bettors have seen just seven. That’s a decrease of more than 99 percent over the last 10 NHL seasons.

After watching his team even its Eastern Conference first-round series without him, Braden Holtby plans to help the Washington Capitals gain the advantage when they visit the New York Islanders for Game 3 on Sunday afternoon. Sidelined with an illness, Holtby witnessed rookie Philipp Grubauer make 18 saves in his playoff debut and Jason Chimera score the go-ahead goal in the Capitals' 4-3 victory in Game 2 on Friday.

In order to help hockey bettors navigate the upside-down world of postseason puck, we asked some of Covers Experts’ top handicappers to share their best tips, tactics, and trends when it comes to successfully wagering on the NHL’s second season.

The New York Rangers sure hope that history repeats itself, since the previous time that they claimed the Presidents' Trophy after setting a franchise high in both wins and points resulted in a Stanley Cup title. Admittedly that was 1994, but the Rangers can take the next step in duplicating that feat when they open their Eastern Conference first-round series against the Pittsburgh Penguins at Madison Square Garden on Thursday.

In order to help hockey bettors navigate the upside-down world of postseason puck, we asked some of Covers Experts’ top handicappers to share their best tips, tactics, and trends when it comes to successfully wagering on the NHL’s second season.

Following the lockout, which brought with it numerous rule changes to help speed up the game and increase scoring, the 2005-06 NHL season had 1,064 regular season games (all but 166 games) with a betting total of six goals or more. This year, NHL bettors have seen just seven. That’s a decrease of more than 99 percent over the last 10 NHL seasons.