St. Louis Blues Odds

St. Louis Blues Odds & Betting Guide: 2026-27 Season

St. Louis finished 2025-26 at 37-33-12 for 86 points, fifth in the Central and four points short of the second Western wild card. The Blues scored 2.8 goals per game and allowed 3.1, and their special teams dragged: the power play finished 26th at 17.6% and the penalty kill 25th at 76.7%. Those two rates do more to move Blues totals than anything else on the live NHL odds board.

The front office changed hands over the summer. Alexander Steen took over as general manager on June 30, 2026, and Doug Armstrong moved up to president of hockey operations. Jim Montgomery returns for his third season behind the bench after replacing Drew Bannister in November 2024, and he rebuilt his assistant staff around Greg Cronin and Vaclav Prospal.

Steen then dismantled the veteran core. The Blues traded Brayden Schenn to the Islanders and Justin Faulk to Detroit at the 2026 deadline, sent Jordan Kyrou to Washington for Connor McMichael and the 16th pick, acquired Mason McTavish from Anaheim and Brandon Carlo from Toronto, and bought out Jonathan Drouin. Robert Thomas wears the "C" now. Dylan Holloway signed a five-year extension in May. Jimmy Snuggerud, who put up 51 points in 70 games and finished fifth in Calder voting, anchors the top line alongside them.

The Blues angle: the net changed hands too. Montgomery handed Joel Hofer the No. 1 job out of camp and moved Jordan Binnington to backup. Hofer appeared in 46 games last season against Binnington's 41, and the gap in their save percentages was roughly 35 points. That matters for pricing because St. Louis plays 12 back-to-backs this season, and most teams give the backup one of those two nights. Watch the road pairs in particular: the Blues go to Los Angeles and Anaheim on consecutive nights in January, Vancouver and Calgary on consecutive nights in March, and Los Angeles and San Jose on consecutive nights in April. A Binnington confirmation in those spots usually lifts the opposing moneyline and the total.

Western Conference and Central Division context

The Central is brutal and it decides the Blues' season: 28 of the 84 games come against division rivals, four apiece. Colorado Avalanche odds open as the division price after a 121-point season, with the Dallas Stars at 112 points and the Minnesota Wild at 104 filling the other two automatic playoff spots. Those three held the top three in 2025-26 and all return their cores.

That pushes St. Louis into a wild-card fight with the group it finished alongside. Utah Mammoth odds sit just above the Blues after a 92-point season, and the Nashville Predators tied St. Louis at 86 points, losing the division tiebreak on regulation wins. Behind them, Winnipeg Jets odds reflect an 82-point fall from a Presidents' Trophy, and the Chicago Blackhawks finished last at 72. Because the first two playoff rounds bracket by division, the race for third in the Central carries more betting weight than the raw conference seed.

St. Louis Blues 2026-27 point total

Books set the Blues' season point total at 84.5, with the over at −125 and the under at −105. Read that against last season's 86 points with care: the NHL expanded to 84 games this season, the first time since 1993-94, so every team gets four more chances at standings points than the 2025-26 baseline. A flat number against a longer schedule is a quiet downgrade.

The regression case: St. Louis went 4-12 in games that reached overtime or a shootout last season, including 1-4 in shootouts. Those results sit close to coin flips over a full year, and a team that far underwater there usually drifts back toward even. The counterweight is the finish: the Blues went 17-5-3 after the Olympic break and closed on a four-game winning streak, and the roster that produced that run is largely the one that opened this season.

St. Louis Blues 2026-27 futures odds

Books price the Blues between +8000 and +15000 to win the Stanley Cup depending on the shop, one of the widest spreads on the board, and between +3500 and +5000 to win the Western Conference. Shopping that price matters more than usual: a $100 ticket returns $8,000 at the short end and $15,000 at the long end for the identical outcome. The division price offers nothing against Colorado and Dallas, so the make-the-playoffs market is the more honest way to bet a St. Louis opinion. No Blues player carries a realistic Hart, Norris or Art Ross price, and Hofer needs to hold the starts in a tandem before any Vezina number means much, since voters reward volume. Snuggerud has aged out of Calder eligibility. Check the rest of the NHL futures board before committing. New accounts can start with a BetMGM bonus code if you want a second book for line shopping.

Betting St. Louis Blues 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.

• Blues −1.5 (+165) / Avalanche +1.5 (−200)
  

The Blues cover by winning by two or more goals. The Avalanche 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 the Blues −1.5 at +165 returns $265: the $100 stake plus $165 in profit. Backing the Avalanche +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 puck line standings track how every team has fared against the number.

Betting St. Louis Blues totals

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

Say books post the Blues vs. the Avalanche 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 Blues totals move: St. Louis played to the lowest combined scoring profile in the Central last season, 5.9 goals per game between the Blues and their opponents, which is why so many of their numbers open at 5.5 rather than 6. Two schedule spots push the other way. The Blues play three road games at altitude, two at Utah and one at Colorado on Dec. 29, and they close a five-game Western Canada swing from March 15 to 23 that runs Seattle, Edmonton, Vancouver, Calgary and Winnipeg with a back-to-back inside it. Tired legs and thin air both tend to lift goal totals. Our nightly picks cover the individual spots.

Betting the St. Louis Blues moneyline

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

• Blues −160 / Avalanche +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 Blues 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 Blues drift from −160 to −185, bettors backed the Blues 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 Blues in regulation loses if the game goes to overtime, even if the Blues win it there.

A betting odds calculator handles the conversion work. Because the Blues reached overtime so often last season, read how books grade overtime and shootouts before you bet a regulation line on them.

St. Louis Blues player props

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

• Jimmy Snuggerud 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, Snuggerud 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.

Deployment is the live question in St. Louis. McTavish and McMichael arrived to fix a 26th-ranked power play, and both carry power-play prop value only if they hold first-unit time. The full NHL player props board updates as lines change.

St. Louis Blues public betting splits

Splits break ticket count out from money handled, and the gap is the useful part. In a recent Blues road game at Winnipeg, Action Network's data showed 17% of moneyline tickets on St. Louis against 83% of the money. Recreational bettors took the home favorite; the larger wagers went the other way. That is the exact question the uneven juice in the totals section raises, and the splits answer it.

The Blues are not a national brand like the Maple Leafs or Oilers, so their ticket volume comes closer to tracking the matchup. That makes the divergences cleaner when they appear. Check the ticket and money percentages before puck drop, and weigh them against the goalie confirmation rather than instead of it.

Prediction markets

Prediction markets list Stanley Cup and conference contracts as event positions priced in cents rather than as sportsbook odds. A contract that settles at $1 if the Blues win the Cup and $0 if they do not trades at whatever the market says the probability is, and you can exit a position before the season ends rather than holding to settlement. That is the structural difference from a futures ticket: the position has a running market price.

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