Forty-nine years of a Stanley Cup wagering drought ended on last Wednesday night when the Blackhawks overcame the Flyers in a thrilling Game 4 struggle to win the 2010 Stanley Cup probabilities title and lift Lord Stanley’s large chalice for the first time in nearly five decades.

The expression “best ever” is too quickly placed on nearly each facet of sports gambling and it has lost most of its strength, but to claim that the 2010 NHL playoff hockey gambling was the greatest ever would as real a statement as you could make.

This year’s hockey betting season will be recalled for plenty of points but perhaps the longest lasting and most moving impact that will linger on in the collective recollection of the sports betting world is the fantastic NHL playoff betting contest.