NHL Picks/Props

I chose the wrong hero for my Thursday article, but a Panthers’ overtime win?  Yeah, nailed that one. Tonight - does anyone have a crystal ball without the smoke from Ontario forest fires, or without the bias that most hockey fans proudly carry ALL THE TIME? Sergei Bobrovsky was the real first star of Game [...]

It is Thursday once again, so let’s find some winning NHL props. We have game three of the Stanley Cup final tonight and the Florida Panthers are on home ice for the first time this series. Tonight is close to a must-win game for the Panthers as they dropped the first two games to the [...]

We’ve survived four nights without hockey this week, and hopefully there’s popcorn and your beverage of choice ready for the 8:00 ET start of the Stanley Cup Final. The story is unique - the top seed in the West, who very few thought would make it through, against the eighth seed in the East, who [...]

Do we get the Stanley Cup Final matchup set tonight? Here’s my take - the Cup isn’t easy.  Vegas will have to work harder, and Dallas won’t go easily. Then the Florida Panthers will have to survive a series-opening loss, too. They don’t just GIVE you the hardest trophy in sports, you have to earn [...]

I’m writing this introduction Friday morning, since my Thursday - Saturday schedule means it’s the same series, and wow!  Yes, I was awake through 2 am (Eastern) this morning, so the first coffee had limited effect.  My first thoughts are that both goalkeepers should be credited with a playoff shutout for their resumes, that being [...]

Since I inadvertently put out a DFS article yesterday, I felt I owed the site a true props piece for all mothers to bet today.  It’s possible that the outline for tonight’s 10PM ET contest was set last evening, also. To review, I picked Seattle to extend the series, the score to be 6-4 (it [...]

Oh, I will eventually let the NHL draft lottery go…but not quite yet.   Thursday, I discussed how to make it more interesting than conducting a lottery in a closed room, in advance, and with mathematical formulas that no one picking the ping pong balls would likely understand.  The league needs to redefine excitement.  Today, I’m [...]

Four games Friday night, with two more teams eliminated.  All season, it seemed that just a little more offensive support for Ilya Sorokin (2.34 GAA and 0.924 SV%) and the Isles wouldn’t only have been a wild card team. The same fate bit them in Game 6, as their terrific goalie gave up two scores [...]