{"id":106531,"date":"2025-08-30T10:35:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T10:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/106531\/"},"modified":"2025-08-30T10:35:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T10:35:09","slug":"fun-with-2025-26-nhl-season-over-unders-team-point-projections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/106531\/","title":{"rendered":"Fun with 2025-26 NHL season over\/unders, team point projections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">It\u2019s Labor Day weekend, and believe it or not but the calendar is turning to September on Monday. That\u2019s when NHL training camps open up, it won\u2019t be much longer now before another season is upon us.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">As such, some season point totals are coming out. This one is from FanDuel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Granted, betting sites want equal action on both sides, but they also need some degree of accuracy to profit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">A lot of the above make sense, but find me feeling like a Grinch wanting to be more confident about calling out unders, rather than the other way around.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">For instance, I\u2019ve been down on Calgary (they recorded 96 points last season but had a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JFreshHockey\/status\/1960829559936303232\" rel=\"nofollow\">negative goal differential<\/a>) and there\u2019s no outsmarting the books to bake in a downturn for them in 2025-26. 85 seems like a good number, but I\u2019d still go under.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Similarly, 95 points for Utah next year? Maybe it\u2019s coming together, but that\u2019s a pretty healthy total, in a super, super tough division. I\u2019m getting excited about the Central, other than Chicago the rest of the teams are pretty good on paper at least and have the competitive desires to be something. Most expect that Nashville might fall off, but someone else in that Utah\/Minnesota\/St. Louis tier is going to be disappointed. Maybe it\u2019s goaltending or coaching, but I think that Utah is getting the shorter end of the stick relative to that competition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">I\u2019d also run say under Florida 107 points. They\u2019re a flashy team with the two Cups and casuals might see that as an over, but Matthew Tkachuk is expected out until about January. The Panthers know how to pace themselves and that the regular season really doesn\u2019t matter to them, aside from being good enough to qualify for the playoffs \u2014 which won\u2019t be a challenge for them. They have playoff mettle, and sight unseen I\u2019d probably chose them now to win at least 2-3 playoff rounds, but I don\u2019t see them having such an excellent regular season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">As far as overs go, from this line I think I\u2019d go Detroit (84) and Buffalo (81). Buffalo always breaks hearts but I think they can clear 81 points, even if narrowly. The Red Wings will have John Gibson and if he plays well they could push up towards 90ish points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">In the last weeks of the off-season it can be fun to look over the over and unders for predictions, what stands out to you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Labor Day weekend, and believe it or not but the calendar is turning to September on Monday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106532,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,44,575,85],"class_list":["post-106531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}