NHL betting splits show how tickets and dollars divide on each game's moneyline, puck line and total. Hockey splits run more one-sided than most sports, and on their own they have not beaten NHL prices, so they are best read as a picture of the betting rather than a pick.
Every NHL game carries a moneyline, a puck line and a total, and each has its own public betting percentage (share of tickets) and money percentage (share of dollars). The moneyline is the market hockey bettors trade: it is a straight bet on the winner, and hockey favorites are rarely priced so steeply that bettors look elsewhere. That is why our NHL pages lead with the moneyline split.
The puck line is hockey's fixed 1.5-goal spread, so its split is really a choice between the favorite at a better price and the underdog with a cushion. The total is the over/under on goals, almost always set at 5.5 or 6.5. We aggregate publicly reported sportsbook handle on a sub-hourly cadence from when a game is posted until puck drop, so each split can be read as it forms through the day.
Hockey moneyline tickets pile onto one side. On closing moneylines last season, the side with more bets drew a median of 79% of them; a quarter of games reached 87% and one in ten reached 91%. That side was the favorite in 97% of games. So an 80/20 ticket split, which would stand out on an NFL spread, is an ordinary NHL night.
The gap between a side's share of bets and its share of money is the other number to read. The median NHL moneyline gap is about 11 points, a quarter of games are 22 or more apart, and one in ten is 36 or more. Totals lean hard to the over: the over drew a median of 84% of total tickets, and 65% or more in 93% of games.
A split tells you how the betting is landing: how one-sided the crowd is, and whether the bigger bets agree with the many small ones. It does not tell you who will win. Over the last two NHL seasons, backing the side the money favored and fading the side the bets favored both lost about the bookmaker's margin at closing prices. The favorite is the public side almost every night, and the price already accounts for it.
That is why our NHL pages describe each split instead of ranking games as picks. The game pages show all three markets for tonight's slate, the team pages show how often each team was the public side and how it did, and the daily roundups sort tonight's games by the gap or by how one-sided the bets are.
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Most of them. Last season the side with more moneyline bets was the favorite in 97% of NHL games, and the typical game had about 79% of the bets on that side.
Not on its own. Over the last two NHL seasons, backing the side the money favored lost about the bookmaker's margin at closing prices, and so did fading the side the bets favored.
Casual bettors would rather root for goals. Last season the over drew 65% or more of the total tickets in 93% of NHL games, with a median of 84%.
On the NHL page, which shows bets and money on the moneyline, puck line and total for every game tonight, updated through the day until puck drop.
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Last updated: October 8, 2026 at 3:56 PM UTC
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