2022-23 NHL Presidents’ Trophy Odds and Predictions

The team that ends the NHL Regular Season with the most Points is awarded the Presidents’ Trophy. Last year, the Eastern Conference’s Florida Panthers (68-18-6) won this trophy, ending with 122 points with strong Home (34-7-0) and Road (24-11-0) marks.

Alexander Barkov (88 points), Aaron Ekblad (57 points) and the Panthers (11/1 to win 2022 Stanley Cup, BetOnline) were swept out of the 2022 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs in Round 2 by their rivals, the Lightning with Florida only netting 3 goals (TBL 13 FLA 3).

In fact, the team that has won the Presidents’ Trophy has only won the Stanley Cup eight times so far, with the last team to do so being Patrick Kane and the Chicago Blackhawks (200/1 to win 2022-23 Stanley Cup), so that’s nine straight years with the silverware.

Presidents’ Trophy NHL winners earn the Home-ice Advantage for the Stanley Cup Playoffs, but with 16 good teams all skating on to the Postseason, it becomes a matter of surviving each game which sometimes comes down to just one period or one crucial shift.

All of the best NHL betting sites have the defending NHL Stanley Cup Avalanche as the favorites to win the NHL Presidents’ Trophy 2023, with popular online sportsbook BetOnline offering up Cale Makar and the Avalanche at 3/1 betting odds right now.

BoL also has 2022-23 NHL Hart Trophy candidate Maker and Colorado as 4/1 betting favorites to win the 2022-23 NHL Stanley Cup, an odds market we will handicap and dive into later this opening week.

Oddsmakers have made the Predators big -175 favorites over the Predators (+158, 5½o -137 BetOnline) for the season lidlifter in Europe and the two teams will also be trading cross-checks again the next day in the O2 Arena on Saturday, October 8.

Let’s take a look at the current 2022-23 NHL Hart Trophy odds, the NHL Presidents’ Trophy winners this millennium, and serve up some analysis for the leading contenders and a prediction to win this award as near Opening Night on this coming Friday, October 7.

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2022-23 Presidents’ Trophy Award Odds

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Can Avs End Presidents’ Trophy Award Streak?

Can the Avalanche repeat as Presidents’ Trophy winners and become the first team in 10 seasons to win both the Presidents’ Trophy and the Stanley Cup? It’s never as easy as it seems and maybe having the highest Point total in the NHL annually is an icy albatross.

The oddsmakers second favorites to win the 2022-23 Presidents’ Trophy is the Toronto Maple Leafs (+850 to win Stanley Cup), and 2021-22 Hart Trophy winner Auston Matthews and the Maple Leafs are priced at +750 to end with the most Points this year.

But that’s about it for the Eastern Conference in terms of serious contenders to end with the most Points in the NHL? The Maple Leafs, Panthers, Lightning and the Hurricanes/ Nope. Don’s sleep on the Rangers possibly getting over 115 points and snagging the PT.

With 2022 Vezina Trophy winner and maybe the best Goaltender in the NHL right now in Igor Shesterkin, the Broadway Blueshirts went 52-24-6 last Regular Season, earning 110 points and getting all the way to the 2022 Eastern Conference Finals where they lost.

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But the best bet in the NHL Presidents’ Trophy Futures market for me is backing Nathan MacKinnon and the Avalanche (4/1 to win Stanley Cup) and expecting the first team since the Blackhawks nine years ago to win both the Presidents’ Trophy and the Stanley Cup.

Remember a couple of things here. First, Colorado plays in the Western Conference, and navigating the NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs in the West is a helluva lot easier than surviving the piranha-infested waters of the East where Round 1 matchups seem like Finals.

And Colorado inked MacKinnon to an 8-year contract extension and he finished with 88 points last year (32 goals, 56 assists) and was huge in the 2022 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs, scoring 13 goals and ending with 24 assists—2nd-highest mark in Avalanche history.

Because Eastern Conference teams feed off of each other and might not be able to get to 115 points, the best in the West, Colorado should be NHL Presidents’ Trophy 2023 winners with around 116-122 points if they get off to a decent start this season.

NHL Presidents’ Trophy Winners

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