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The National Hockey League is back. The puck drops on the new NHL season on Wednesday night, giving you one last chance to make your preseason pick on the Stanley Cup betting futures at online sportsbooks like Bodog.

The NHL season is almost here and the sportsbooks are rolling out their props and futures. And at Bodog they’ve unleashed their odds on each team making the playoffs. With 16 of 30 teams bound for the postseason this year that means 14 will end up disappointed and on the golf course in the spring.

If you can figure out on which side each team will land you could make a tidy profit at the sportsbook.

Last season the conference champions in the NHL were the Chicago Blackhawks in the West and the Tampa Bay Lightning in the East. According to the oddsmakers at online sportsbook Bodog we could be headed for a repeat matchup in the Stanley Cup final.

They say the more things change the more they stay the same, and they might as well have been talking about the Stanley Cup future odds at online sportsbook Bodog as they haven’t changed a bit since we last looked at them earlier in the summer.

Sidney Crosby and the Pittsburgh Penguins bolstered their lineup over the summer with the acquisition of Phil Kessel from the Toronto Maple Leafs, but they’re still trailing the top favorites on the odds to win the 2016 Stanley Cup at the sportsbooks.

The Penguins sit sixth on the Stanley Cup futures at Bodog at +1400 with training camp on the horizon, putting them in a tie with the St. Louis Blues and behind five other teams on those betting lines at the sportsbook.

The champion Chicago Blackhawks have been forced to make some changes to their Cup-winning roster so far this summer, but that hasn’t kept them from holding onto their spot atop the NHL betting futures at online sportsbook Bodog.

The Chicago Blackhawks have won three Stanley Cups over the past six years, and with the NHL offseason now in full swing they have been listed at online sportsbook Bodog as the 7/1 betting favorite to repeat as the 2016 Stanley Cup champions.

Having started the season at 13/2 on the odds to win the Stanley Cup at Bodog, the Chicago Blackhawks are now sitting at -150 at the online sportsbook on those betting lines as they prepare to take on the Tampa Bay Lightning in the Stanley Cup final.

It’s the New York Rangers who enter this year’s Stanley Cup playoffs as the favorites, with five Canadian clubs falling in behind them on that NHL futures list at the online sportsbooks with the league’s postseason schedule getting underway on April 15.

At online sportsbook Bodog the Rangers are set as the 6/1 Stanley Cup odds favorites, putting them just ahead of four other teams that are holding down 8/1 odds – the Anaheim Ducks, Chicago Blackhawks, Minnesota Wild, and St. Louis Blues.

The Montreal Canadiens added some depth to their roster prior to the NHL Trade Deadline, and the online sportsbooks have given them a small bump on the odds to win the 2015 Stanley Cup as we enter the stretch run of the 2014/15 campaign.