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The top five NHL handicappers on the ScoresandStats leaderboard went 59-30 in the week to 4 February 2025. That was a 66.2% win rate, for $3,752 in profit. It made the most profitable week of that NHL season to that date, and the nearest week before it was week 11, at $2,900.
This page was first published on 5 February 2025 and stays as the record of that week. The figures below are the leaderboard as published, and the games it looked ahead to are given with their final scores.
Sal Lombardi carried the top five
Sal Lombardi went 31-19 that week, for $1,814. On the page’s own account, that was more than half of the top five’s profit for the week.
He got there on volume: 6 to 10 bets a day, mostly moneylines. Not all of them were favorites. His underdog wins included the Jets against the Hurricanes and the Sabres against the Devils.
His season to that date was a split worth reading carefully. He had lost more bets than he had won, yet he was up $1,420. An underdog moneyline pays more than it risks, so a record under .500 can still show a profit when enough of the winners are underdogs. That is our reading of his line, not a figure the leaderboard published.
The top five NHL handicappers that week
Together the five went 59-30 for $3,752. Before that week, the best of that season as the page recorded it was week 11, at $2,900.
Sports Hub Insider, one or two results from second
Sports Hub Insider, one of the computer pick models on the board, went 5-2 for $328. That was enough for the top five, at the low end of it.
Two bets separated it from a higher place. One was the Penguins moneyline, which lost when the New Jersey Devils won 3-2 at the Pittsburgh Penguins in a shootout on 4 February. The other was the Sharks-Kraken total. With both, the page put its week at about $655, which would have been second.
How the games the page looked ahead to ended
On publication the page pointed to the Bruins at the Rangers on 5 February. Several of the site’s handicappers had the Rangers moneyline at -170. It won: the Boston Bruins 2 at the New York Rangers 3.
The page also flagged two later games without a pick on either. On 6 February the Vegas Golden Knights won 3-1 at the New Jersey Devils. On 8 February the Buffalo Sabres lost 6-4 at the Nashville Predators.
Where the picks are now
Our free predictions for the NHL are on the NHL predictions page. Paid handicapper picks are through the top sports betting handicappers page.