49 years of a Stanley Cup gambling drought came to an end on last Wednesday night when the Blackhawks beat Philadelphia in an exciting Game 4 battle to take the Stanley Cup in 2010 odds championship and lift Lord Stanley’s large chalice for the first time in close to 5 decades.

The phrase “best ever” is too easily placed on nearly every facet of sports gambling and it’s lost a lot of its effectiveness, but to state that the 2010 NHL playoff hockey gambling was the best ever would as real a statement as you may make.

This year’s hockey gambling season will be remembered for a lot of points but perhaps the longest lasting and most poignant impression that will stick in the collective memory of the sports gambling world is the terrific NHL playoff gambling event.