I think bowmans.com is a Bristish operated online sportsbook. In London,England you can wander the streets and walk into a sportsbook called Ladbrokes and make bets in person - when i was there in 1997. About betting on NHL futures, you can usually bet which teams will make the playoffs but you can never wager if a team won't. Same goes for any sport, bookmakers never let you make bets where you are betting against someone to win the Cup or playoffs, special cases only. Go with pinnaclesports.com, you can bet on misc. things and has amateur leagues as well available to wager on.