3 Participant Prop Bets For Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Final

The Florida Panthers and Edmonton Oilers are set to sq. off in Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Final on Saturday evening. 

This is a extremely attention-grabbing matchup with a plethora of fascinating angles to contemplate relating to the betting markets. 

How will Edmonton’s high-powered assault fare in opposition to Florida’s stout protection? Which goalie will come to play at their highest stage?

Here are three participant props to contemplate earlier than the puck drops.

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Edmonton middle Connor McDavid Over 3.5 Shots on Goal +106

We’re going to maintain issues so simple as might be with our first providing right here. 

McDavid has waited 9 lengthy years for this second, and he lastly has his Oilers in place to win the Stanley Cup. Do you assume for even a second that he isn’t popping out weapons blazing on this recreation?

We’ll hear rather a lot about how nice the mix of Aleksander Barkov, Gustav Forsling, and Aaron Ekblad have been for Florida at limiting the opposite crew’s finest gamers, and that might be an element because the collection goes on.

McDavid has hit this quantity in 9 of his 18 playoff video games to date this season, and final yr within the postseason he hit it in 8 of 12. 

Over a two yr postseason pattern, that is a 17-for-30 hit price on a plus cash proposition. Combine that with the motivation issue, and this can be a good look regardless of the robust matchup.

Florida goalie Sergei Bobrovsky Over 24.5 Saves -119

We’ll play into some correlation right here just a bit bit. If McDavid goes to go over his photographs, it follows that Bobrovsky has a greater likelihood to go over his save complete.

Florida is an elite defensive crew that’s glorious at suppressing photographs, however they have not confronted a crew that generates them in addition to Edmonton does on this postseason run. They have not even confronted anyone shut.

The Oilers led the league within the common season with 32.87 photographs on purpose per 60 minutes at 5-on-5. In the playoffs, they confronted the Tampa Bay Lightning (twenty third, 27.4), Boston Bruins (twenty second, 27.42), and New York Rangers (fifteenth, 29.77).

The Florida protection is nice sufficient to fare nicely on this collection, however Edmonton is a greater puck possession crew and a much more harmful even-strength offense than the Panthers have confronted to date. 

Dallas goalie Jake Oettinger simply went over this quantity in 5 of his 6 video games in opposition to the Oilers, whereas Vancouver goalie Arturs Silovs went over in 5 of his 7 in opposition to Edmonton. This quantity is a steal.

Florida middle Sam Bennett to Record a Point +112

This quantity would not make an excessive amount of sense to me, and at plus cash, I feel you must leap on it.

Bennett missed a few of rounds 1 and a pair of with an damage, however he is acquired 10 factors in 12 video games on this postseason. He’s recorded some extent in 8 of these 12. 

We already know the Barkov line goes to be tasked as a lot as doable with shutting down McDavid’s line, so search for Paul Maurice to do every thing he can to get his second line of Bennett, Matthew Tkachuk, and Evan Rodrigues favorable matchups with dwelling ice. 

If the Barkov line cannot be counted on for offense, it’s going to must be the second unit, and Bennett additionally will get energy play time. Tkachuk is Bennett’s linemate and is at the moment sitting at -215 to attain some extent.

Sure, Tkachuk is the higher participant, nevertheless it’s a collaborative line and Bennett has produced at a a lot greater clip than this line would recommend. 

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