Analyzing Every NHL Team's Odds of Winning the 2027 Stanley Cup

We are less than one week into the 2026-27 NHL season, and you know what that means: There's still time to place a bet on virtually any team you want to win the Stanley Cup.

At the beginning of the season, the odds are as even all around as they're going to get. This means you can find value in unexpected places and get some bang for your buck if you feel strongly about any of the top dogs.

Using FanDuel's season-opening odds , let's analyze each NHL team's odds of winning the 2027 Stanley Cup.

Editor's note: Odds are constantly changing, especially game-by-game at the beginning of the season. The odds used here were as of Wednesday, Sept. 30.

Nothing to see here, folks -- even the staunchest Canucks fans of all are already looking forward to the draft.

At least they're putting on a show and putting up a fight to start the season, with a 7-goal effort in a 9-7 loss against the Oilers in Game 2.

After opening night's 6-1 loss to the Kraken, many are wondering whether Seattle looks promising or the Flames are just that bad.

The jury's still out on the Kraken, but yes, the Flames are definitely that bad. This is the time in their rebuild when they've got a stocked prospect pool stewing, but nothing close to a complete NHL team currently on the ice.

In the Pacific, anything is possible, so there honestly could be some long-shot value in betting on the Kraken to make the playoffs. Are we overreacting to a solid opening-night win? Maybe.

Still, +20000 odds to win the actual Stanley Cup is about right for Seattle right now. They're still searching for that game-breaking player.

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Showtime is back where he belongs in Chicago, but will he bring the glory days along with him? It's a long shot, and so are the Blackhawks' +15000 odds to win the Cup.

They're taking some positive steps, but they've still gotta find the perfect winger for Connor Bedard, and the young core still needs a season or two before entering the playoff window, let alone winning the Cup.

It's pretty tough to evaluate the Jets until they make the much-anticipated Connor Hellebuyck trade. We can tell you one thing, though: It's hard to imagine the team getting better after trading the best goaltender in the world.

The Jets could make a few savvy moves and get back in the conversation next season, but these odds feel fair.

Much like the Jets and Hellebuyck, the Red Wings are tough to evaluate before hiring a long-term GM and deciding whether to trade (or keep!). Dylan Larkin. Still, the drama, trade request, and lack of roster improvement are enough to tell us these +10000 odds to win the Cup are fair.

The Blues are expected to take a few steps forward this season, with Robert Thomas stepping into a captain role and some savvy off-season acquisitions like Mason McTavish.

They've still gotta get back in the playoffs before they even sniff a Cup. We'll see if Jordan Binnington and Co. get back in it this season and go from there, but it's definitely not time to bet on them to win the Stanley Cup.

The Predators are headed in a positive direction after years of back-and-forth and disappointment. New GM Chris MacFarland has already moved the needle with off-season shakeups like acquiring Ross Colton and Jack Drury from his former team, the Avalanche.

Regardless, the West is an unforgiving gauntlet, and the Predators have to prove to all of us that they're really back before we go calling them Cup contenders.

The Islanders are entering year two of the Matthew Schaefer era, and year one showed us he is one of the most exciting young players in the league.

We can be almost certain that the defenseman will one day bring the Islanders back to glory, and that day might come soon. For now, though, he's still a teenager, and the Islanders have to acquire a few more goal-scorers and fix their power play if they want to sniff a Stanley Cup.

Will David Pastrňák finally win that elusive Stanley Cup now that he's been named captain of the Bruins? Perhaps one day, and hey, Boston is off to a great start with a strong opening-night win that featured a goal from new acquisition JJ Peterka.

Playoffs aren't out of the question this year, but the rest of the elite competition is just too good to consider the 2026 Bruins a Cup contender.

The Rangers made a ton of moves this offseason, and it seems the oddsmakers approved as New York's Cup odds jumped to +6500.

You gotta wonder what the odds were for a home-opening goalie goal from Igor Shesterkin. What a moment.

Anyway, for as much improvement as the Rangers have shown in avoiding a season-opening scoring drought, the East is equal parts stacked and unpredictable. The odds are trending in the right direction with the team, but it's too soon to start spreadin' the news.

The Blue Jackets made out decently enough in acquiring Matthew Knies for Kirill Marchenko, but a team that is desperate for goals still lost a goal-scorer. It's tough to see them maintain the playoff-bubble status they had last year, and these +6500 Cup odds are reasonable, if a bit generous.

Sidney Crosby, Evgeni Malkin, and Erik Karlsson are back for at least one more attempt at a Stanley Cup. While they re-entered the playoffs last season, there appears to be little gas in the tank.

Will they be able to jump-start this car and rev up the engine, knowing it's their last good opportunity, or is there genuinely nothing left? We'll have to see, and these +6500 Cup odds reflect that uncertainty.

Despite a 7-0 home-opening loss to the Penguins, the Flyers' Cup odds are significantly higher. Obviously, Philadelphia's first-round trouncing of the Penguins last season has much to do with that, but it feels like it inflated their odds this season just a bit too much.

The Flyers overperformed and shocked themselves last season. They've got some great pieces, and we're delighted with Porter Martone's trajectory this season, but they still need to find an answer at elite center.

In the Pacific, anything is possible. It's certainly possible that the Sharks not only make the playoffs for the first time in the Macklin Celebrini era, but also win the whole division.

Is the 2027 Stanley Cup in the cards, though? Probably not. Making the playoffs and getting that first taste is more than enough this season. It's still telling that we're all so optimistic about these Sharks right now that they've jumped teams that made the playoffs last season in these odds.

Leo Carlsson and Cutter Gauthier might've been expensive as heck, but hey, they were signed to this roster before camp and came into this season as focused as can be.

Will the Ducks be able to take the next step after making the playoffs and taking down the Oilers in the first round last season? While that's entirely possible, the West is top-heavy, and reaching the Cup Final will be a battle.

The Senators having better odds than the Ducks to win the Cup is pretty surprising. The Ducks are returning their entire core, while the Senators lost their most important player, Brady Tkachuk.

The oddsmakers are likely heavily weighing the top-heavy nature of the West here. They are probably also weighing the fact that the past three Cup winners have come out of the East.

I still wouldn't bet on the Senators to win the Cup.

The Kings have made the playoffs only to lose in the first round for almost a decade now. If you really think this is the year they're going to not only make it out of round one but also hoist a Cup, feel free to bet on them at +3300 odds. I certainly wouldn't.

Only Toronto could go from the No. 1 pick in the draft lottery to pretty decent odds of winning the Stanley Cup.

The Leafs had a positive offseason with tons of moves, like acquiring Sergei Bobrovsky and bringing No. 1 pick Gavin McKenna into the fold. It isn't realistic to think the team that has struggled to make it out of the first round, even at its best, is going to jump back in and win it all.

The cathartic 2025-26 season for the Sabres was special in so many ways, but now it's time to focus on perennial playoff appearances and working towards a Cup. Buffalo lost some key players this offseason, including Alex Tuch and Bowen Byram, but their young core took major steps forward and feels ready to take on bigger roles.

We're all waiting to see if the Sabres will maintain success and keep building on it, so +3000 Cup odds are pretty fair for this season.

The Mammoth have proved so far that they are willing to do what it takes to stay in the conversation, upgrade the team, and keep chipping away at the roster to make the playoffs. Logan Cooley's health will no doubt give this team an upgrade, but did the roster overperform last season on the way to the playoffs? We'll see.

Can Jack Hughes stay healthy, can the team survive the loss of Jacob Markstrom in net, and is there any chance, in H-E-double hockey sticks, that Quinn Hughes makes a mid-season signing and trade to play with his brothers?

If the answer is "yes" to two out of these three questions, the Devils could make it back into the playoffs. But we're in no place to discuss the Devils winning the Stanley Cup until this happens.

Hopes are as high as ever for the Habs, as they should be: This young roster hasn't even reached its prime, and every year it's like each piece of the team keeps raising the ceiling.

Could Nick Suzuki win the Hart this year? Could Lane Huston win the Norris? Regardless of individual trophies, the Habs will join the Cup conversation this year. Even +2200 odds feel quite modest.

Now that the Hurricanes have the Conference Finals monkey off their back, we look to the Stars and wonder if they're ever going to make it all the way despite their many unsuccessful trips to the Western Conference Finals. It just feels like such a tall task given the top-heavy talent out West, but perhaps Jason Robertson's one-year deal lights the fire that finally takes a stacked-yet-disappointing team all the way.

Brock Faber's preseason skull fracture is a gigantic and devastating blow to a team that needs every ounce of luck it can get. We'll have to see what his recovery looks like, whether the Wild can replace all the depth scoring they lost in the offseason, and whether the noise surrounding Hughes' extension becomes a distraction.

The Wild have many questions to answer in an unforgiving Central Division.

The team that refuses to leave us alone is back, and Nikita Kucherov and Andrei Vasilevskiy are sharp as ever. Between Victor Hedman's return and the acquisition of John Carlson, it's tough to see the Lightning bowing out of the playoffs this season. To be fair, it's also tough to see them going all the way to the Cup.

The Golden Knights made it to the Cup Final last season, but they had to part ways with their top scorer Pavel Dorofeyev. While they've still got a seemingly unstoppable Mitch Marner, Jack Eichel, and tons of other high-end talent, it's hard to stomach the loss of Dorofeyev and Carter Hart's historically bad Cup Final performance last season.

They've got to keep up the scoring and keep an eye on their goaltending situation if they're to make it back to the Final this year.

Not only is Alex Ovechkin back for one last go, but the Capitals also did well in updating the team in the offseason, with Alex Tuch and Jordan Kyrou now in the fold.

It seems likely the Capitals are going to bounce back. They missed the playoffs last season due to a crazy battle in the East, but they had more wins than the Golden Knights, who made it all the way to the Cup Final.

We all know how desperate the Oilers are to win a Cup in the last year of Connor McDavid's contract, but that doesn't mean they're automatically in the conversation.

They've had a wacky win and a wacky loss to start the season, an indication that we're in for another year of drama for this team. If everyone stays healthy and focused, there's a chance Edmonton makes it out of the West — especially with goaltender Freddie Andersen in the fold. But +1000 odds feel a bit generous considering last season's first-round exit.

The reigning champions are tied for the second-best betting odds to win the 2027 Stanley Cup. Their roster is nearly identical to last season's, save for one big change: goalie Freddie Andersen signed with the Oilers.

Will the Hurricanes get Hellebuyck? That would likely give them the outright lead in Cup odds. Right now, a three-way tie is probably fair.

Does Colorado have one more Cup win in the tank with this core? If Nathan MacKinnon's opening-night gusto, featuring two goals and a fight, has a say, we're thinking yes.

Cale Makar became the richest player in NHL history this offseason. He and MacKinnon are still in their prime and hungry; meanwhile, Colorado's got nothing left in the prospect tank.

The pressure is on, and if it wasn't happening last year, it could be now or never again for these Avalanche. They're certainly the most likely team from the West to hoist the Cup this season, and the odds reflect that.

We get it: The Panthers are back. After a devastating year full of injuries and missed playoffs, the core of this roster is healthy, intact, and ready to compete for a third Cup in four years.

It's hard to imagine they'll miss the playoffs, but are they really one of the three most likely teams to win the 2027 Stanley Cup? Bringing Brady Tkachuk into the fold is interesting from both a morale and skill standpoint, and I'm intrigued to see whether Jacob Markstrom can consistently be the goaltender he is at his best.

It's still a lot to ask of a team to go from missing the playoffs one year to raising the Cup the next.

If anyone can do it, it's these Panthers, and the top three odds are fair. It would be one thing if they were in the outright lead for the Cup betting odds, but we'll give them part of a three-way tie. We suppose an opening-night win over the reigning champs impacted this.