New Jersey Devils Odds

New Jersey Devils Odds & Betting Guide: 2026-27 Season

The Devils enter 2026-27 trying to climb back into a playoff spot after a 42-37-3 finish worth 87 points left them 7th in the Metropolitan and 13th in the Eastern Conference last season, outside the field. The roster that takes the ice looks different from the one that stumbled. New general manager Sunny Mehta, a New Jersey native hired in April after the team fired Tom Fitzgerald, spent the summer reshaping the forward group, adding Anthony Mantha, Luke Evangelista, Evan Rodrigues and Jesper Boqvist while moving out goaltender Jacob Markstrom and defenseman Simon Nemec. Mehta evaluated the bench and brought Sheldon Keefe back for a third season, so Keefe coaches a deeper lineup under clear pressure to produce.

The goaltending picture is the headline for bettors. Mehta traded Markstrom to the Florida Panthers in July, leaving Jake Allen penciled in as the starter at 36 with young Nico Daws next in line and Remi Poirier adding bodies. No book treats that as a settled crease, and an unsettled crease is where NHL prices move most. Up front, the Devils kept their core together and extended captain Nico Hischier, so the scoring talent is real when healthy.

Health is the whole story for this market. Jack Hughes led the team with 77 points last season despite missing a long stretch, and the roster carried injuries all year. Oddsmakers set the Devils as a bubble-to-solid playoff team on the bet that the core plays closer to a full slate. For reference on how much that swings outcomes, read on to the point total section, where the 84-game schedule changes how you should read every number on the board. For the full market, check live NHL odds across the day's slate.

The Devils angle: Hughes availability is the single biggest input into every Devils number. New Jersey went 34-24-3 in games Hughes played last season, a .582 point percentage, against 8-13 without him, a .381 clip. Books have baked a healthy Hughes into the point total and the moneyline, which means two things for bettors: the preseason number already assumes good health, and any in-season news on Hughes will move the Devils' game lines faster than almost anything except the starting goalie.

Eastern Conference and Metropolitan Division context

The Metropolitan runs through Carolina. The Carolina Hurricanes carry the division's highest point total near 107.5 and sit as division and conference favorites, so the realistic Devils path is a chase for second or third and a wild-card cushion rather than a division crown. The Washington Capitals are the other team priced clearly above New Jersey. Behind them, the New York Rangers and the Pittsburgh Penguins are live for the same middle tier the Devils occupy, and the New York Islanders sit just below on most boards. The rebuilding Philadelphia Flyers and Columbus Blue Jackets hold long division prices around +13000, which makes them the games the Devils are expected to bank.

Division games decide this. New Jersey plays its seven Metropolitan rivals four times each, 28 of its 84 games, so the race for third in the division and the wild-card line both turn on head-to-head results against the teams linked above. That is where the betting weight sits, because the playoff field is the top three in each division plus two wild cards per conference.

Devils 2026-27 point total

The season point total is the NHL version of a win total and the most-bet team-level number before puck drop. Books set the Devils in the 95.5 to 96.5 range with roughly even juice on both sides. Read that number against the new 84-game format rather than old 82-game totals: every team plays two extra games, which lifts point totals by a few points across the board, so a number in the mid-90s is not directly comparable to a mid-90s total from prior seasons. Compare per-game pace, not raw totals. The over case is Hughes and the core staying healthy behind a deeper forward group; the under case is the unsettled goaltending and a division with no easy nights at the top. For the rest of the board, see the NHL futures hub.

Devils 2026-27 futures odds

New Jersey sits mid-pack on the Stanley Cup board, roughly +2800 to +3500 depending on the book, with Eastern Conference prices around +1400 to +1800 and Metropolitan Division numbers near +650 to +750. Make-the-playoffs markets hover around -130, which frames the Devils as a slight favorite to return to the postseason rather than a lock. On the awards side, a healthy Hughes is the team's only realistic longshot in the scoring and Hart conversations, and the goaltending committee makes a Vezina case hard to build, because a goalie splitting starts rarely piles up the workload voters reward. Prediction markets also list Stanley Cup contracts for New Jersey in percentage terms for traders who prefer that structure.

Betting Devils 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.

Devils -1.5 (+165) / Rangers +1.5 (-200)

Devils cover by winning by two or more goals. Rangers 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 Devils -1.5 at +165 returns $265: the $100 stake plus $165 in profit. Backing Rangers +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. Track how New Jersey has fared laying and taking the 1.5 on the puck line standings.

Betting Devils totals

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

Say books post Devils vs. Rangers 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 Devils totals move: New Jersey has no locked-in starter, so the daily goalie call carries more weight here than on teams with a clear No. 1, and the schedule stacks spots where the backup is likely. The Devils play 13 back-to-backs, and the second night is where Allen often cedes the net to Daws. Several land on the road, including a Dallas, Colorado and Vegas swing in late October where the Colorado leg falls on the second night at altitude, plus a four-game Western trip at Edmonton, Calgary, Seattle and Vancouver from January 28 to February 3. Those altitude and travel games, and any night the backup starts, are where totals and moneylines shift most. For leans on specific nights, see the nightly picks.

Betting the Devils moneyline

The moneyline asks one question: who wins. At most books it includes overtime and the shootout. It is the dominant way to bet hockey, so it deserves the most attention of the three. Start with how the moneyline works if the pricing is new to you.

Devils -160 / Rangers +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 Devils 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 Devils drift from -160 to -185, bettors backed the Devils 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 Devils in regulation loses if the game goes to overtime, even if the Devils win it there. Confirm how your book handles the extra frame on the overtime and shootout betting rules page before you bet it. New account holders can compare offers through the FanDuel promo code page.

Devils player props

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

Jack Hughes 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, Nico Hischier 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. Hughes, Bratt and Hischier anchor most of the Devils' shot and point props on the prop board.

Devils public betting splits

Splits break ticket count out from money handled, and the gap is the useful part. The public betting data page reports the percentage of tickets on each side separately from the percentage of dollars, and when those two numbers diverge, the larger bets are telling you something the ticket count is not. If 70% of tickets sit on the Devils over but only 45% of the dollars do, the bigger wagers are on the under. Tie this back to the totals section: when a Devils number carries uneven juice, the splits often explain why, because the book is reacting to where the money, not the ticket count, is landing. New Jersey draws steady local ticket volume, so it's worth looking at the ticket-versus-money gap before betting any Devils number.

Prediction markets

Prediction markets list the Devils' season outcomes as tradable contracts priced in percentage terms rather than as sportsbook odds. On these platforms, you take a position in a market, and the contract settles based on the result, so a Stanley Cup or make-the-playoffs market reads as a price between zero and 100 that moves as sentiment shifts.