NHL 2018 Stanley Cup Playoffs Individual Award Betting Odds

–The Stanley Cup Playoffs begin on Wednesday, April 11.

–The Stanley Cup playoffs bring the intensity from the opening round due to the highly competitive nature of the NHL.

–The Nashville Predators are the favorite to win the Stanley Cup.

The 2018 Stanley Cup Playoffs will get underway on Wednesday, April 11 with three games. The Winnipeg Jets will host the Minnesota Wild and the improbable Vegas Golden Knights will welcome the Los Angeles Kings to the T-Mobile Arena on the Las Vegas Strip. In the Eastern Conference, the Pittsburgh Penguins will host the Philadelphia Flyers as they begin their attempt to become the first team to win three straight Stanley Cup titles since the New York Islanders won a total of four consecutive championships in the early 1980s. The remaining series will get underway on Thursday night

Winning the Stanley Cup is a team effort but as in any sporting competition certain players stand out. Since 1965, the Conn Smythe Trophy has been awarded to the most valuable player during the playoffs. Typically, it’s awarded to a member of the Stanley Cup winning team but it’s been given to a player on another team five times, most recently to Anaheim Ducks goaltender Jean-Sebastian Giguere in 2004. Below you’ll find odds to win the Conn Smythe Trophy as well as odds to score the most goals and total points during the 2018 Stanley Cup playoffs:

NHL 2018 STANLEY CUP PLAYOFFS INDIVIDUAL AWARD ODDS

TO WIN CONN SMYTHE TROPHY (PLAYOFF MOST VALUABLE PLAYER)

Pekka Rinne: +1000
Nikita Kucherov: +1000
Brad Marchand: +1000
Filip Forsberg: +1250
Alexander Ovechkin: +1250
Patrice Bergeron: +1500
Auston Matthews: +1500
Steven Stamkos: +1500
Tuukka Rask: +1500
Sidney Crosby: +2000
Marc-Andre Fleury: +2000
Evgeny Kuznetsov: +2000
Yevgeni Malkin: +2000
Blake Wheeler: +2000
Patrik Laine: +2000
Victor Hedman: +2150
Roman Josi: +2150
Phil Kessel: +2150
Viktor Arvidsson: +2500
William Karlsson: +2500
Nicklas Backstrom: +2500
PK Subban: +2500
David Pastrnak: +2500
Mark Scheifele: +2500
Connor Hellebuyck: +3000
Joe Pavelski: +3000
Sergei Bobrovsky: +3000
Ryan Getzlaf: +3000
Anze Kopitar: +3500
Artemy Panarin: +3500
Eric Staal: +3500
Brent Burns: +3500
Jeff Carter: +4000
Claude Giroux: +4000
William Nylander: +4000
Mikael Granlund: +4000
Rikard Rakell: +4000
Joe Thornton: +4000
Any Other Player: +5000

2018 NHL STANLEY CUP PLAYOFFS MOST GOALS SCORED

Nikita Kucherov: +1000
Alexander Ovechkin: +1150
Brad Marchand: +1250
Filip Forsberg: +1250
Patrik Laine: +1250
Patrice Bergeron: +1500
Auston Matthews: +1500
Steven Stamkos: +1500
Yevgeni Malkin: +1500
Sidney Crosby: +2000
Viktor Arvidsson: +2000
Evgeny Kuznetsov: +2000
David Pastrnak: +2000
Blake Wheeler: +2500
William Karlsson: +2500
Phil Kessel: +2500
Mark Scheifele: +2500
Nicklas Backstrom: +2500
Taylor Hall: +2500
James Neal: +3000
Anze Kopitar: +3000
Artemy Panarin: +3000
Eric Staal: +3000
Brent Burns: +3000
Jeff Carter: +4000
Claude Giroux: +4000
William Nylander: +4000
Rikard Rakell: +4000
Any Other Player: +5000

2018 NHL STANLEY CUP PLAYOFFS MOST POINTS SCORED

Nikita Kucherov: +1000
Steven Stamkos: +1250
Filip Forsberg: +1250
Yevgeni Malkin: +1250
Sidney Crosby: +1500
Brad Marchand: +1500
David Pastrnak: +1500
Blake Wheeler: +1500
Phil Kessel: +1500
Ryan Getzlaf: +2000
Anze Kopitar: +2000
Evgeny Kuznetsov: +2000
Ryan Johansen: +2000
Patrice Bergeron: +2500
Auston Matthews: +2500
Viktor Arvidsson: +2500
Nicklas Backstrom: +2500
Mark Scheifele: +2500
William Karlsson: +2500
Alexander Ovechkin: +2500
Taylor Hall: +2500
Jeff Carter: +3000
PK Subban: +3000
Artemy Panarin: +3000
Eric Staal: +3000
Brent Burns: +4000
Claude Giroux: +4000
William Nylander: +4000
Rikard Rakell: +4000
Any Other Player: +5000

Player with most combined goals and assists at end of Stanley Cup playoffs will be declared the winner

About the Author: Jim Murphy

For more than 25 years, Jim Murphy has written extensively on sports betting as well as handicapping theory and practice. Jim Murphy has been quoted in media from the Wall Street Journal to REASON Magazine. Murphy worked as a radio and podcasting host broadcasting to an international audience that depended on his expertise and advice. Murphy is an odds making consultant for sports and 'non-sport novelty bets' focused on the entertainment business, politics, technology, financial markets and more.