As a new hockey bettor, I have a question regarding betting the spread which hopefully someone can answer. Tonight, Columbus is -.5, +120 with my book. But they are +195 if you take -1.5. Both are for regulation only. My question is whether there is any empirical data on hockey games ending with a 1 point margin. Seems to me that when a team is down by 1 late, they pull the goalie and either score, tying the game and sending it to overtime or they give up an empty netter and lose by 2. So, it seems like if you like Columbus to win tonight (no opinion on that, just using them as an example), it would make more sense to take the -1.5 and enhanced vig because they are probably not going to win by exactly 1 goal. Does that make sense?
