The Leagues
NHL — The 82-Game Crucible
Eighty-two games per team. Thirty-two clubs. 1,312 regular-season games before a single playoff puck drops. The most heavily-priced hockey league on the planet because it is the most data-rich — line combinations, ice-time splits, expected goals trends, save percentage by goal differential, special-teams units. The market shifts hourly across a game day. Lucky Rebel runs full markets on every NHL fixture — moneyline, puckline, period totals, alternate lines, player and team props, the Grand Salami across the whole nightly slate, plus the full Stanley Cup futures book and the Hart, Norris, Calder and Vezina player award markets running from October through the Conn Smythe presentation in June.
The AHL, OHL & WHL — The Pipeline
The American Hockey League is the NHL's farm system — 32 affiliate clubs feeding the parent rosters, where the next call-ups are sharpening up. The OHL and WHL are the major-junior tiers on either side of the border, the leagues where the McDavid and Crosby projections start showing up on the draft boards. Markets are thinner than the NHL but the prospect lines move sharply on call-ups and emergency starts. The Memorial Cup each May draws a full prop book across all three CHL leagues.
The KHL & MHL — The Russian Circuit
The Kontinental Hockey League runs a 68-game regular season from September into the Gagarin Cup Playoffs, on a calendar that runs roughly parallel to the NHL. The MHL is the Russian junior tier where the next wave of Russian draft prospects gets priced. Lucky Rebel posts daily KHL markets across the full Russian and Eastern European map — moneyline, puckline, totals, player props on the marquee scorers. Time-zone-friendly for the late-night and early-morning windows when the NHL board is dark.
The IIHF & Olympic Hockey — When the Worlds Collide
Every May the IIHF World Championship gathers 16 nations across two weeks of round-robin into a single-elimination playoff bracket. The tournament pulls every NHL star whose club missed the playoffs and still wants ice time — full international rosters, full Lucky Rebel markets across every game. The Olympics return every four years with the men's and women's tournaments running side by side. The EHL covers club hockey across the European map. The 2010 Vancouver gold, Lake Placid 1980, every Canada-USA final since — Lucky Rebel runs the lines on the modern equivalent.