Ice Hockey is one of the biggest sports in the USA and Canada and thanks to television coverage, it has become a popular sport to bet on in the UK and Europe.

The main competition is undoubtedly the Stanley Cup. Each team plays a total of 82 regular season games, with the 30 teams battling for a place in the top 16 in the standings. Those 16 teams face each other in play-off games, concluding with the champions of the Eastern and Western Conference meeting in a best-of-seven final, to win the Stanley Cup.

As well as offering updated Stanley Cup prices throughout the season, we will also have prices pre-season on the Conference titles and divisional winners.

You will find matches on most days of the week from October through to the conclusion of the season in April. There can be anything up to 15 games per evening, with match betting available for all of them.

There are other hockey betting opportunities within each game, with the most popular of those being the spread market, where the favourite in the outright market is given a handicap of a certain number of goals. This gives punters a chance to back favourites they fancy at slightly longer odds than they might in the outright. Then there’s total goal markets, which require you to predict the combined number of goals scored by the two teams.

Whatever your strategy, have fun with your ice hockey betting and don’t forget to check out all our latest odds at totesport.com.