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The Golden Knights chose Robin Lehner implicit Marc-Andre Fleury erstwhile they traded the 2021 Vezina Trophy victor to the Chicago Blackhawks.
But Las Vegas oddsmakers favour Fleury implicit Lehner to win the 2022 Vezina, awarded to the NHL’s champion goaltender.
Fleury, who turns 37 successful November, is the 10-1 2nd prime astatine Caesars Sports to triumph the grant down Tampa Bay’s Andrei Vasilevskiy, the +450 favorite. Lehner is tied for the eighth prime astatine 20-1.
“Forty is the caller 30 so, physically, Fleury tin astir apt bash it,” Caesars Sports vice president of trading Nick Bogdanovich said. “But he’s connected a marque caller squad successful a marque caller system, and Chicago’s been successful the basement a fewer years and Vegas has been successful first.”
Despite the odds, Bogdanovich likes Lehner’s chances playing for a Knights squad that’s the +550 favourite astatine Caesars to triumph the Stanley Cup.
“One 100 percent. No doubt. He steps into a large spot,” helium said. “A batch of that grant is stats, but guys besides person to beryllium connected a large winning team. Lehner volition person a overmuch amended chance.”
Lehner, 30, went 13-4-2 for the Knights past play with a .913 prevention percent and 2.29 goals-against average. He and Fleury (26-10-0, .928, 1.98) won the NHL’s Jennings Trophy, awarded to the goalies connected the squad that allowed the fewest goals.
“Lehner is arsenic susceptible arsenic anyone other of winning the large game, winning the Cup and winning the Vezina,” Red Rock Resort sportsbook manager Chuck Esposito said. “But there’s much unit connected him this twelvemonth because, for the archetypal time, this is intelligibly his team. He’s going to play the bulk of the games.”
Division odds
Circa Sports precocious posted NHL part likelihood and made the Knights dense -210 favorites to triumph the Pacific. The Knights are -180 astatine Boyd Gaming.
The Edmonton Oilers are the +470 2nd prime astatine Circa and the enlargement Seattle Kraken are the 7-1 3rd prime (14-1 astatine Caesars). The remainder of the teams are successful treble digits, with the San Jose Sharks astatine 70-1 and Anaheim Ducks astatine 270-1.
“The Knights are, by far, the champion squad successful the Pacific Division,” Esposito said. “You tin marque a lawsuit that a batch of teams successful the Pacific are successful rebuilding mode. The Knights person the luxury of playing the enlargement Kraken and the Sharks, Kings and Ducks.
“It’s hard to find a script successful the Pacific that the Knights don’t triumph the part easily.”
The Pacific features 3 of the 10 longest shots astatine Caesars to triumph the Stanley Cup successful the Kraken (60-1), Sharks (75-1) and Ducks (100-1).
The Colorado Avalanche are the heaviest part favorites astatine Circa astatine -300 to triumph the Central.
The part races are overmuch tighter successful the Eastern Conference, wherever the Metro is simply a toss-up betwixt the Washington Capitals (+365), Pittsburgh Penguins (+375) and New York Rangers (+375), and the Atlantic is simply a toss-up betwixt the Lightning (+250), Toronto Maple Leafs (+250), Boston Bruins (+265) and Florida Panthers (+265).
Contact newsman Todd Dewey astatine tdewey@reviewjournal.com. Follow @tdewey33 connected Twitter.
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