- 11 September
- 11 September
Pre-match ice hockey betting on the NHL and European leagues
Pre-match ice hockey betting gathers every match priced before the puck drops, and the list is led by the competitions that return season after season: the NHL, the Kontinental Hockey League and the Champions Hockey League, joined by the national championships of the Czech Republic, Germany, Slovakia, Sweden and Switzerland and, at national-team level, the IIHF World Championship. Fixtures stand under their league headings and are grouped by date, so a match is opened from its league page, from the date group or through the search by team name, and the whole ice hockey list regroups by country when that route is quicker.
A match row prices the regulation-time result in three directions, because sixty minutes of ice hockey can end level: home win, draw and away win each keep a column, and a link beside the odds opens the remaining outcome types of that fixture. The same row links out to statistics, an odds movement chart, standings and team information for both clubs, so form and tables are checked without leaving the list. Matches carry their date and start time, and each league heading holds its own set of outcome columns for the games beneath it.
The complete market set lives on the match page. The result and double chance sit beside team wins, Both Teams To Score and combinations of result with total; totals come as the overall goals count, Asian variants and individual counts for either team, and handicaps are set in straight and Asian forms. Ice hockey adds families of its own: whether the game goes to overtime, the winner in regular time, in overtime or in shootouts, Scoring Periods, a team scoring in each period, period totals, the side to score the last goal, a hat-trick, a short-handed goal or a goal into an empty net. A period choice, a search within the event and a control that folds every group shorten the way to any of them.
Season-long questions have a home of their own under Long-term bets, where ice hockey is priced ahead: the winner of a conference or a division and the team collecting most points across a campaign appear before the opening round is played. When the puck is dropped, a fixture leaves the pre-match list and continues under Live with in-play ice hockey markets, and final scores settle under Results. A pick from any ice hockey market joins the bet slip as a single or becomes part of an accumulator with any other sport on the platform.