We have a four-game slate in the NHL on Friday night, and there are plenty of players worth targeting for some player props to begin the weekend. My best bets f

H ere is the full National Hockey League schedule for Oct. 25 and how to watch all the games. Or see our sortable NHL schedule to filter by team or division. All times Eastern and accurate as of Friday, Oct. 24, 2025, at 6:08 p.m.

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Calder Trophy frontrunner Ivan Demidov has been filling up the stat sheet, and our expert NHL predictions expect this trend to continue tonight against the Vancouver Canucks!

Three NHL forwards may be long shots for the Hart Trophy, but they could be just that valuable for their clubs this season.

The Panthers are the -288 favorite (risk $288 to win $100) in the latest Blackhawks vs. Panthers odds, witch Chicago at +233. The over/under for total goals scored is 5.5. Before making any Panthers vs.

Upon the Supreme Court in 2018 clearing the path for us to wager on the games we love — and often those we barely give a hoot about other than they represent action — many predicted the pent up betting industry, and ancillary moneymakers, both legal and illegal, would storm down the track with the force of a thousand Affirmeds.

Perhaps that’s why the topic was on the minds of multiple readers when this week’s call for mailbag questions went out. There were also queries on all kinds of different Olympic themes, plus Patrik Laine’s future, the slumping Tampa Bay Lightning, Sidney Crosby trade watch, the NHL’s next big prankster and much more.