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BASports.com Opens NHL Season With 46 First-Place Hockey Contest Finishes Across 48 Years

WAUCHULA, Fla., Sept. 29, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- As the NHL opens its 2026–27 regular season today, Dr. Bob Akmens and BASports.com are marking 48 years in sports handicapping and 46 first-place finishes in NHL handicapping contest categories, as featured at Yahoo Finance.

“Opening night is a fresh test of every projection we make,” said Akmens, founder of BASports.com. “We want hockey bettors to judge us by documented results—what was picked, at what price, and how those picks performed—not by a slogan.”

A Documented Record Unmatched in the Industry

BASports.com's NHL Hockey handicapping record stands as the most extensively documented in the sports handicapping industry, tracked continuously across nearly five decades by independent contest bodies. No other service has compiled a comparable body of verified results in hockey handicapping.

Among the results described in a BASports.com announcement published on Yahoo Finance, BASports.com placed first against a field of 73 handicappers in the Las Vegas SportsWatchMonitor NHL contest for both net profit and net winners. The announcement also reported first-place results in five categories of Ruth Glasgow’s The Sports Monitor NHL contest.

Founded in 1978, BASports.com produces sports predictions using statistical and situational analysis. For hockey, its work examines team performance, matchups, venue-specific results and betting-market prices before determining whether a game warrants a selection.

The new NHL season begins with five games on September 29, including Florida at Carolina, Montreal at Toronto and the New York Rangers at Boston. The expanded schedule calls for 84 regular-season games per team, giving bettors a long season in which to evaluate both picks and prices.

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They invite everyone who loves to bet on hockey, and every other sport they cover, to come on board today and get the electric jolt of what being a winner really feels like.

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With BASports.com, their customers get that proven best-in-class experience…and make more profits with their sports bets than they ever had before.

About BASports.com

Founded by Dr. Bob Akmens in 1978, BASports.com provides sports handicapping analysis and selections across the NHL and other professional and college sports. Past results do not guarantee future performance.

Media contact:

Dr. Bob Akmens

BASports.com

https://basports.com

Bob@BASports.com

863-244-2131

A video accompanying this announcement is available at: https://www.globenewswire.com/NewsRoom/AttachmentNg/22c338ee-964a-455a-aa81-750838cb33a6