NHL playoff picks: 4 best player props for Thursday
12 May
NHL
Guy Giles1
Chris Peters picks out his four best player prop bets for Thursday night's slate in the NHL playoffs.

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Kirill Kaprizov anytime goal scorer 2.00

With goals in each of his last four games, Kaprizov has been next to unstoppable. Held off the score sheet in Game 1, even though he had five shots on goal, Kaprizov has been a goal-scoring and scoring-chance machine. He also has the skill to finish in ways that a lot of other players don’t.

The Russian superstar is looking like one of the very best players in the league with his performance in this series. He has seven goals to lead all players in the playoffs and is averaging five shots on goal per game. With Minnesota’s season on the line, you just know he is going to step up and do whatever he can to keep the Wild’s hopes alive a bit longer.

Nikita Kucherov and Mitchell Marner to both get 1+ assists 2.75

I think Game 6 in Tampa is going to be an absolute thrill fest. The Lightning have been so good after losses and their ability on home ice is especially intriguing. While I think the Bolts are going to win, I think the Leafs are going to put up quite a fight. If they do, Mitch Marner is going to have to be involved in that.

Marner has assists in all games but one so far with five assists in the series to date. Meanwhile, Kucherov had two assists in each of the last two games. He only has one goal so far, so the playmaking element has really been there for him. Kucherov has accounted for six assists total throughout the playoffs.

This is a player special prop that I thought would be a good way to juice a little extra value out of two of the best offensive players on their respective teams, especially ones that have been producing assists regularly this postseason.

Connor McDavid anytime goal scorer 2.10

With his team’s season on the line and with how well he played in the third period of Game 5, you have to think McDavid is going to play like a man possessed tonight. There’s no way he is going down without a fight and while I picked the Kings to win this game, it won’t be on McDavid if the Oilers lose.

He has two goals in the series, so the smart money is probably expecting more assists from him, but he did score in the last game and has often produced in games where his team faced elimination. He scored a goal against Winnipeg last year, put up two assists against Chicago in 2020, scored against San Jose in the close-out game of the only series win of his career.

McDavid is going to have a major say in what happens in this game tonight.

Victor Hedman to score 2+ points 3.00

With the Lightning’s season on the line, I expect Hedman to play upwards of 27 minutes in regulation against the Maple Leafs. In the two previous games following a loss in this series, Hedman had four points and two points, respectively. He also scored a goal in the last game and now has seven points in the series to date.

Hedman has scored two or more points in playoff game 22 times. In those particular games, the Lightning have lost only twice. I fully expect them to bounce back from their Game 5 loss against Toronto and make it next to impossible to close them out on home ice. Hedman will be as big a part of that as any player on the Lightning roster.

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Connor McDavid and Kirill Kaprizov both to score 1+ goals 5.00