Edmonton Oilers Odds

Edmonton Oilers Odds & Betting Guide: 2026-27 Season

The Edmonton Oilers open 2026-27 with the shortest Pacific Division price on most boards and the same question bettors asked last spring: can anyone keep the puck out of their net? Follow live NHL odds for every Oilers game, and use this guide to read how books price Connor McDavid, Leon Draisaitl and a crease that is still sorting itself out.

Where the Oilers stand

Edmonton finished 2025-26 at 41-30-11 with 93 points, second in the Pacific and fifth in the West. Home ice in the first round didn’t save them. The third-place Anaheim Ducks eliminated the Oilers in six games, ending a run of back-to-back Stanley Cup Final trips.

The offense held up. Edmonton scored 282 goals, sixth in the league, and ran a 30.6% power play. McDavid played all 82 games and won the Art Ross with 138 points, Draisaitl added 97 points in 65 games, and Evan Bouchard led all defensemen with 95. The trouble sat at the other end: the Oilers allowed 269 goals and posted a .879 team save percentage, tied for fifth-worst in the NHL.

Management answered on both fronts. Edmonton fired Kris Knoblauch in May, and general manager Stan Bowman hired Mike Babcock in June, with D.J. Smith as associate coach. On July 1, Bowman traded for goalie Devon Levi, signed Frederik Andersen to a one-year deal and sent Darnell Nurse to San Jose for defensemen Shakir Mukhamadullin and Zack Sharp. Jack Roslovic signed with Toronto, and Connor Ingram, the club’s wins leader last season, did not return.

The three-goalie plan hasn’t run as designed. Andersen opened the season recovering from a knee injury, which left Tristan Jarry and Levi to carry the early workload. For bettors, the confirmed starter is the most important Oilers input on any given night.

Western Conference and Pacific Division context

Division games make up 28 of Edmonton’s 84, and the first two playoff rounds run through the division bracket. The top three teams in each division qualify, plus two wild cards per conference, so both the Pacific title and the race for third carry real weight in Oilers futures.

The Vegas Golden Knights won the division last season with 95 points, two ahead of Edmonton, then reached the Stanley Cup Final. Books see another two-team race: FanDuel opened Edmonton at +160 to win the Pacific and Vegas at +210.

The Anaheim Ducks finished third with 92 points before knocking Edmonton out in April. The Los Angeles Kings took a wild card at 90 points on the back of 20 overtime losses, a total that flatters a team that finished minus-22 in goal differential. The San Jose Sharks missed the last wild-card spot by four points, and Macklin Celebrini enters the season near the top of the Hart board.

The Seattle Kraken, Calgary Flames and Vancouver Canucks finished sixth through eighth, and Vancouver’s 58 points ranked last in the league. Those three teams account for 12 of Edmonton’s 28 division games, the stretch where books will price the Oilers as a heavy favorite most nights.

Edmonton Oilers 2026-27 point total

DraftKings set Edmonton’s regular-season point total at 104.5, with -115 on both sides. That sits 11.5 points above last season’s 93, and part of the gap is the calendar. 2026-27 is the first 84-game NHL season since 1993-94, so every team gets two extra games and point totals run higher than past 82-game numbers.

Compare per-game rates instead of raw totals. Edmonton earned 1.13 points per game in 2025-26, and that pace over 84 games produces about 95 points. The over needs roughly 1.24 points per game, a jump of more than a tenth of a point per night.

Even juice tells you books see the number as balanced. The over rests on the crease: a save percentage near league average would wipe out much of last season’s goals-against problem. The under rests on the same crease, plus a schedule with 11 back-to-backs and two six-game road trips through the Eastern Conference.

Edmonton Oilers 2026-27 futures odds

bet365 lists the Oilers at +900 to win the Stanley Cup, level with Vegas and behind Florida, Colorado and Carolina. That price implies 10%. Over the summer, BetMGM had Edmonton at +500 to win the West, behind Colorado and Vegas.

McDavid leads the Hart board at +300 at DraftKings after finishing 10 voting points behind Nikita Kucherov last season, and he also leads the Art Ross market at around +210. The Art Ross is a counting race, so the 84-game schedule rewards durability and first-unit power play time, and McDavid checked both boxes last season. Draisaitl sits further down the Hart board, near +900. No Oilers goalie belongs in the Vezina conversation while three goalies share the net.

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Prediction markets also list contracts on the Stanley Cup winner and on season awards. The prediction markets section below explains how those trade.

Betting Oilers puck lines

The NHL’s version of the point spread is the puck line. Books set it at 1.5 goals in nearly every game and adjust the price instead of the number.

• Oilers -1.5 (+165) / Sharks +1.5 (-200)

The Oilers cover by winning by two or more goals. The Sharks cover by winning outright or losing by one. The half-goal means neither side can push.

So many NHL games finish within one goal that the favorite usually pays plus money on the puck line, while the underdog costs a steep price. A winning $100 bet on Oilers -1.5 at +165 returns $265: the $100 stake plus $165 in profit. Backing the Sharks +1.5 at -200 means risking $200 to win $100.

At most books, a game decided in overtime or a shootout goes down as a one-goal win, so the +1.5 side cashes any time the game gets past regulation. Late in close games, the trailing team pulls its goalie for an extra skater, and an empty-net goal is often what turns a one-goal win into a puck line cover.

The Oilers angle: Edmonton played 20 games past regulation last season, and every one graded as a one-goal result, so the +1.5 side cashed in all 20. The Oilers also lost all four of their shootouts. Shootout results sit close to random, so expect that mark to drift back toward even. Track Edmonton’s puck line records through the season, and for a deeper walkthrough, read how the puck line works.

Betting Oilers totals

Books set a total for the combined goals both teams score, then let bettors take a side.

Say books post Oilers vs. Kings at 6.5, with the over at +105 and the under at -125. The over cashes if the two teams combine for seven or more goals. The under cashes at six or fewer. A half-goal total cannot push. When books post a whole number like 6, a six-goal game pushes and both sides get their stake back.

NHL totals sit in a narrow band, mostly 5.5 to 6.5, so books move the juice far more often than the number. Overtime goals count toward the total. Most books also add one goal to the winner’s score for a shootout win, so a 3-3 game decided in a shootout grades as seven. Check the book’s rules.

The starting goalies move NHL totals more than anything else. Books often wait for the confirmed starters before settling the price, and a backup in net can shift both the number and the juice.

Why Oilers totals move: Edmonton games averaged 6.7 combined goals last season, and books regularly hung 6.5 on them. A top power play and a bottom-tier save percentage both push toward the over, so the confirmed starter carries extra weight here. When books shade an Oilers over to -120, check whether tickets or dollars drove the move (see the splits section below). For nightly angles, see our NHL picks.

Betting the Oilers moneyline

The moneyline asks one question: who wins. At most books it includes overtime and the shootout.

• Oilers -160 / Kraken +135

Minus marks the favorite, plus the underdog. At -160 you risk $160 to win $100. At +135 you risk $100 to win $135.

Converting to implied probability makes the pricing clearer. The -160 favorite implies 61.5%. The +135 underdog implies 42.6%. Those sum to 104.1%, not 100%. The extra 4.1 points are the book’s margin, and the book collects it whichever side wins.

One thing worth getting straight: a short price is not automatically a bad bet. Bettors call heavy favorites bad value out of habit, but if the Oilers win this matchup 65% of the time, -160 is a price worth taking, because it only implies 61.5%. Value is the gap between real probability and priced probability. The size of the number tells you nothing on its own.

When one side carries heavier juice than the other, that tells you where money is landing, not which side is correct. If the Oilers drift from -160 to -185, bettors backed the Oilers and the book adjusted its exposure. The team did not become more likely to win.

Books also post a regulation line, sometimes called the three-way or 60-minute line. It adds a third outcome, a tie after regulation, so both teams pay longer prices than on the standard moneyline. A bet on the Oilers in regulation loses if the game goes to overtime, even if the Oilers win it there. Before betting either line, review how books grade overtime and shootouts.

The Oilers angle: Edmonton plays 11 back-to-backs, and nine of them finish on the road:

• Nov. 1 at the Rangers (after an afternoon game on Long Island)
• Nov. 15 at Philadelphia
• Nov. 22 at St. Louis (after a 1 p.m. ET start in Carolina)
• Nov. 28 at Seattle
• Dec. 28 at Washington
• Jan. 3 at Pittsburgh
• Jan. 21 at Los Angeles
• March 21 at Vancouver
• April 3 at Anaheim

Expect a backup on one night of most of those pairs, and expect books to adjust once the team confirms its starter. Two six-game road trips run Nov. 14-22 and Dec. 27-Jan. 5, each with two back-to-backs inside it. Altitude games at Utah on Oct. 17 and at Colorado on Jan. 26 and March 15 add another layer. The best home stretch is an eight-game homestand from Jan. 28 to Feb. 22.

Edmonton also draws recreational money regardless of matchup, which can push Oilers prices past where a neutral number would sit, especially in its eight national ESPN and TNT games. bet365, FanDuel, BetMGM and DraftKings all post nightly Oilers prices, and the gap between them can be several cents on the same game, so holding more than one account lets you take the best number.

Oilers player props

A player prop prices one player’s production in one game.

• Connor McDavid shots on goal: 3.5 (over -120, under +100)

The over needs four shots on goal. The under needs three or fewer.

Anytime goal scorer is the other high-volume NHL prop. At +180, Connor McDavid scoring implies 35.7%. Overtime goals count at most books; shootout goals do not.

NHL props follow ice time and deployment. A player promoted to the top line or the first power-play unit gets more shifts and more shooting chances, and books adjust when line combinations change. Goalie save props depend on the opponent’s shot volume and on the goalie actually starting. Check the confirmed starter and the injury report before betting a prop, and check the book’s rules for a player who does not play, because they differ between books.

McDavid, Draisaitl and Bouchard anchor a first power-play unit that converted 30.6% last season, so their point props move with Edmonton’s penalty draws more than with even-strength play. Babcock’s line combinations are new, and a promotion onto McDavid’s wing changes a forward’s shot and point outlook overnight. Browse Oilers markets on the prop board, and check confirmed starters and injuries before betting any Jarry or Levi save prop.

Oilers public betting splits

Splits break ticket count out from money handled, and the gap is the useful part. If 70% of tickets sit on the Oilers but only 45% of the dollars do, the larger bets are on the other side.

Edmonton sits among the league’s brand-premium teams, and that shows up in futures as well as nightly games. BetMGM reported the Oilers among the five most-bet teams by ticket count in its Stanley Cup market, alongside the Avalanche, Maple Leafs, Panthers and Canadiens. Heavy ticket volume is exactly where ticket share and money share separate most. Check the public betting data before every Oilers game, and pay closest attention when a moneyline or total moves against the side drawing most of the tickets.

Oilers prediction markets

Prediction markets list event contracts on outcomes such as the Stanley Cup winner, the Pacific Division title and the Hart Trophy. Each contract trades between 1 and 99 cents and settles at $1 if the outcome happens and $0 if it doesn’t, so the price reads as the market’s percentage chance.

Say a Yes contract on Edmonton winning the Stanley Cup trades at 12 cents. A trader who buys 100 contracts spends $12 and collects $100 if the Oilers win the Cup. Traders don’t have to hold to settlement. They can sell a position at the current price at any point, which matters for a team whose outlook can swing on a goalie injury or a trade-deadline move.

Contract prices on Edmonton react to the same news that drives the rest of the board: the crease, McDavid’s health and the Pacific race against Vegas. New traders can open an account with our Polymarket promo code.