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The 2011 STANLEY CUP Playoffs brings the NHL betting season to an exciting point in its schedule making some games much more important than others depending on previous results, standings, dates and fixtures. At this point in the live STANLEY CUP Playoffs betting campaign, winning or losing big money all depends on knowing which teams are playing for what!

“Perhaps the best piece of NHL betting advice anyone ever gave me,” says one veteran ice hockey reporter, “is that you should bet with your head, not your heart. I’m a guy from Montreal, where the game originated, for Pete’s sake, but rarely would my NHL bet include backing the Canadiens.”

What a history the Stanley Cup has. Originally known as the Dominion Hockey Challenge Cup , it was actually awarded to Canada’s leading amateur ice hockey club, initially in 1892, and it wasn’t until 23 years later that two professional associations agreed to pit their respective champions against each other for the right to win the Stanley Cup. Since 1947, the trophy, replete with many engraving mistakes, has been ice hockey’s most coveted