NHL vig on today’s slate ranges from 3.20% at Pinnacle, LowVig.ag, and BetOnline.ag on the moneyline to 10.16% at ReBet on the puck line. On puck lines alone the spread is 670 basis points (BetUS 3.46% to ReBet 10.16%) — wider than any other sport tracked on AgentBets. For builders and sharp retail bettors, the April 23, 2026 snapshot makes the case for NHL line shopping more clearly than any market on the board.
Where the NHL vig actually sits today
The AgentBets Vig Index measured NHL overround across 19 tracked books at 06:00 UTC on April 23. Each book was sampled across six to nine events drawn from today’s and the next three days’ slate. The resulting ranking is unusually wide:
| Tier | Book | H2H Vig | Spreads Vig | Totals Vig | Avg |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sharp | Pinnacle | 3.20% | 3.76% | 3.43% | 3.45% |
| Sharp | LowVig.ag | 3.20% | 3.77% | 3.70% | 3.55% |
| Sharp | BetOnline.ag | 3.20% | 3.77% | 3.70% | 3.55% |
| Competitive | BetUS | 4.44% | 3.46% | 4.62% | 4.17% |
| Competitive | BetAnything | 4.16% | 3.85% | 4.59% | 4.20% |
| Competitive | Bovada | 4.40% | 3.81% | 4.66% | 4.29% |
| Competitive | DraftKings | 4.62% | 4.27% | 4.31% | 4.41% |
| Mainstream | BetMGM | 4.85% | 4.59% | 4.65% | 4.70% |
| Mainstream | FanDuel | 4.78% | 5.00% | 4.99% | 4.92% |
| Mainstream | Fanatics | 4.90% | 5.10% | 4.77% | 4.92% |
| Mainstream | MyBookie.ag | 4.98% | 5.06% | 4.97% | 5.01% |
| Mainstream | betPARX | 4.32% | 5.44% | 5.43% | 5.03% |
| Mainstream | theScore Bet / ESPN Bet | 4.53% | 6.56% | 4.32% | 5.10% |
| Mainstream | Bally Bet | 4.54% | 5.44% | 5.43% | 5.11% |
| Wide | Caesars | 7.39% | 4.29% | 4.53% | 5.49% |
| Wide | BetRivers | 4.80% | 6.04% | 5.96% | 5.60% |
| Wide | Hard Rock Bet | 4.76% | 7.43% | 4.96% | 5.66% |
| Trap | Fliff | 5.31% | 7.02% | 6.46% | 6.22% |
| Trap | ReBet | 6.71% | 10.16% | 7.20% | 8.02% |
The three-way tie at 3.20% h2h vig between Pinnacle, LowVig.ag, and BetOnline.ag isn’t coincidence — LowVig and BetOnline are operated by the same group and mirror Pinnacle’s pricing on major markets. For bettors who can’t access Pinnacle, those two are the closest equivalent available.
On the other end, ReBet’s 10.16% NHL spreads vig is effectively an unbettable market for anyone paying attention. You’re giving up more than a full percentage point of expected value on every puck line wager before the game even starts. Fliff and Hard Rock Bet aren’t far behind on the spread markets.
The Caesars moneyline anomaly
One result worth flagging: Caesars posts 7.39% h2h vig on NHL — the second-widest in the entire 19-book sample, beaten only by ReBet. Yet Caesars’ spreads vig (4.29%) and totals vig (4.53%) sit comfortably in the competitive tier.
This isn’t a universal Caesars pattern. It’s specific to NHL moneyline pricing on today’s slate. Looking at the underlying h2h prices, Caesars is regularly shading the favorite by 5-12 cents relative to Pinnacle — for example, offering Boston -110 home versus Pinnacle’s -103 (7 cents), or shading the Kings to -165 while Pinnacle and LowVig sit at -153 (12 cents). For a retail bettor loading up on NHL moneyline favorites at Caesars, those cents compound into four-figure drags over a season.
The actionable read: do not bet NHL moneyline at Caesars without checking a sharp book first. Use Caesars for the spreads and totals markets where it’s price-competitive.
The eight-game best-line board (April 23-26)
Tonight and over the next 72 hours, eight upcoming NHL games are on the board. Here’s where the best home and away moneyline prices sit, sourced from the 06:00 UTC snapshot:
| Game | Best Home | Best Away | Worst Home | Worst Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BUF @ BOS | Pinnacle -103 | LowVig.ag -107 | MyBookie.ag -111 | Bovada -112 |
| CAR @ OTT | Pinnacle +109 | Fanatics -120 | Hard Rock Bet +100 | BetRivers -129 |
| COL @ LAK | Hard Rock Bet -150 | DraftKings +140 | Fliff -170 | MyBookie.ag +126 |
| TBL @ MTL | Pinnacle +105 | LowVig.ag -114 | ReBet -107 | ReBet -129 |
| VGK @ UTA | Pinnacle +100 | LowVig.ag -109 | ReBet -113 | ReBet -122 |
| EDM @ ANA | FanDuel +116 | LowVig.ag -128 | ReBet +107 | ReBet -149 |
| DAL @ MIN (4/25) | Fanatics +115 | Fliff -110 | Fliff -110 | Fanatics -140 |
| PIT @ PHI | FanDuel -113 | Pinnacle +106 | ReBet -126 | ReBet -109 |
On the COL @ LAK moneyline alone, the implied probability spread between best and worst pricing is 7.21% overround at worst, versus 1.67% at best. On a $100 moneyline wager, the difference between taking -150 at Hard Rock and -170 at Fliff on the Kings is $7.84 in payout differential per winning Kings ticket — before factoring in the small probability of a push or the variance of a single game.
All eight games on the board have a best-line effective vig under 2.5%. The Dallas-Minnesota matchup on Friday is the noisiest entry — only four books are pricing it at the 06:00 UTC snapshot, which produces an apparent negative vig of -1.11% using the best home and best away moneyline prices. That is a short-lived cross-book opportunity that will resolve as soon as the remaining books post lines.
Per-market ranking matters more than averages
The composite Vig Index ranking obscures a real operational detail: different books are sharp on different markets. Today’s data makes that unusually clear:
- Moneyline (h2h): Pinnacle, LowVig.ag, and BetOnline.ag tied at 3.20%. Caesars is an outlier at 7.39%.
- Puck line (spreads): BetUS leads at 3.46%, followed by Pinnacle (3.76%) and the LowVig/BetOnline tandem (3.77%). DraftKings comes in at 4.27% — sharper than its h2h market.
- Totals (over/under): Pinnacle at 3.43%, LowVig.ag and BetOnline.ag at 3.70%. DraftKings (4.31%) and theScore Bet / ESPN Bet (4.32%) are the sharpest regulated US books on NHL totals.
The implication for builders is that a single-book routing strategy is leaving value on the table. A router that splits by market — moneyline through Pinnacle-LowVig-BetOnline, spreads through BetUS or Pinnacle, totals through DraftKings or theScore Bet — captures lower effective vig than any single book can offer, without touching the sharp book tier at all for spreads.
This is the operational shape of a modern sharp bankroll: market-by-market routing, not book-by-book loyalty.
What this means for agent builders
Three concrete takeaways from the April 23 snapshot that belong in any NHL betting pipeline:
1. Use the Vig Index as a pre-trade filter, not a post-trade benchmark. If your agent is evaluating a wager and the book it’s about to hit is sitting in the C/D tier for that specific market (h2h, spreads, or totals — not just the average), route elsewhere or skip the bet. The basis-point cost compounds faster than most builders model.
2. Don’t conflate sharp books with sharp markets. Pinnacle is universally sharp. But Caesars is sharp on NHL totals and trap-wide on NHL moneyline in the same snapshot. A generic “sharpest book” ranking at the site level will misroute you on individual markets.
3. Build for the best-line vig, not the consensus vig. A synthetic portfolio that buys the best home price at one book and the best away price at another — what a +EV betting bot routinely does — holds effective NHL moneyline vig under 2.5% on most games tonight. That’s roughly half the cost of betting any single mainstream US book’s price in isolation.
For the full cross-book infrastructure — live vig tables, per-sport rankings, and the DraftKings vs FanDuel vs BetMGM head-to-head — the AgentBets odds and compare hub updates every eight hours from The Odds API. For the theory behind why these prices move when they do, see Line Movement Explained.
The bottom line
NHL is, empirically, the sport with the widest vig dispersion on the AgentBets board right now. The sharp tier (Pinnacle, LowVig, BetOnline) runs a full 3-4 percentage points tighter than the trap tier (Fliff, ReBet) across every market. Caesars’ 7.39% h2h vig is an outlier that is both measurable and actionable today.
If you’re taking NHL action in the next 72 hours without checking a sharp book first, you’re volunteering to pay the widest juice of any major sport we track. The fix is infrastructure, not edge-finding: route by market, never take a mainstream US book’s moneyline without a sharp cross-check, and let the Vig Index carry the cognitive load.
Not financial advice. Built for builders.