The St. Louis Blues have been beaten in eight games in a row by the Los Angeles Kings dating back to last season. In there, includes a sweep at the hands of LA in the Western Conference Semifinals in 2012. Now, almost a year to the date from that series, the Blues and Kings are back at it in the opening round of the playoffs, and there is no doubt that there is going to be some bad blood. That bad blood will start to spill over for Game 1 of this NHL betting showdown on Tuesday night at the Scottrade Center.

The 2/7 series in the Western Conference is going to get started on Tuesday night at the Pond, where the Anaheim Ducks are going to try their best to stymy the Detroit Red Wings. This should be a remarkable game and a great series to watch on the NHL odds, and the Ducks are the -150 favorites to claim the opening soiree of these two powers.

The Golden State Warriors have caught some tremendous fire, and they have the ability to put away the Denver Nuggets if they can go on the road and knock off the best home team in the league on Tuesday night at the Pepsi Center. This is an early start time for these two teams at 8:00 p.m. ET (6:00 local time), and you can bet that that might have an influence on the game.

The Chicago Blackhawks are coming into the second season full of sound and fury, and they are going to hope to put together a great run of wins to get all the way to the Stanley Cup Finals. The first win will be a tough one to get in spite of the fact that they are -220 favorites on the NHL playoff odds though, as the Minnesota Wild are coming to town looking for a Game 1 upset.

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Game 4 of the Eastern Conference Quarterfinals kicks off on Monday night at Phillips Arena for the Atlanta Hawks and the Indiana Pacers. All of the action gets started at 7:30 p.m. ET on NBA TV, and we have a good idea which way to go on the ‘total’ on the NBA odds, which is set at 186.

Just one night after playing on Sunday Night Baseball, the Atlanta Braves are back on the MLB TV schedule once again, playing on ESPN for the second straight night. Their foe in this one though, is the Washington Nationals, who are quite possibly one of the most underachieving teams in the game thus far in the season.

The Houston Rockets are on the verge of elimination from the playoffs, and if they lose on Monday night at the Toyota Center, the only sports that will be left to watch in the city will be the Houston Astros, and it’s a matter of opinion as to whether that is really “sports” or not. Alas, that’s what the Oklahoma City Thunder will try to do in this one, as they are 1 ½-point favorites on the NBA odds to close this series out and prepare for the second round of the NBA playoffs.

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Points have been flying all over the place over the course of the series between the Golden State Warriors and the Denver Nuggets. These two have combined to average 219.3 points per game thus far in the three playoff games this year, and the ‘total’ that they are shooting at this time around is 212. Will Game 4 at Oracle Arena get to such a lofty number in the second half? We have our answers with our NBA picks for the final game of the night in a pivotal spot in the Western Conference Quarterfinals.