3-Championship Parlay Involving Rams, Warriors and Avs Pays Big

A customer of the online sportsbook BetMGM used a $500 free bet on a three-team parlay with the Rams winning the Super Bowl, the Warriors winning the NBA title and the Avalanche to win the Stanley Cup, reports David Payne Purdum of ESPN.   Colorado was a favorite to win early on in the series.

That parlay paid an incredible $269,000.

The Colorado Avalanche claimed their first Stanley Cup since 2001 with a win over the two-year reigning champion Tampa Bay Lightning in Game 6.

"We knew the job that we had to do," said Cale Makar, who was awarded the Conn Smythe Trophy as the postseason's most valuable player. "But we needed to just talk about staying mentally locked in and not looking too far ahead. It was [Andrew Cogliano] and [Gabriel Landeskog] and [Nathan MacKinnon] speaking and basically just calming the guys down and making sure that regardless of the outcome, just put it all out there and see where the game lies, and that's kind of where our minds were at.

"I felt like throughout this whole game, our mentality was just win that period and win the next one, get the next shift and so on, and we were never looking too far ahead to the to the outcome -- and we definitely feel like we earned that one."

The Avalanche are now 9-1 in their last 10 road games.

- Don Shapiro, Gambling911.com