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Today’s props for NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs: Connor McDavid among best bets Thursday
Today’s props for NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs: Connor McDavid among best bets Thursday
Domestic teams even seek their series in a victory when the second round of the Playoffs of the Stanley 2025 Cup resumed on Thursday. The Washington Capital, who are the first selection of the Eastern Conference, welcomes Carolina’s hurricanes in their match game 2, while Vegas Golden Knights face Edmonton Oilers visitors in the second Western Conference Contest.
Washington, who won the three games at home against the Montreal Canadiens in the first round, missed a third period leadership and left a 2-1 decision in extraordinary hours to capital hurricanes One Arena in the open of his second series. Ombudsman Jaccob Slavin scored the winning goal at 3:06 of the additional session for hurricanes, who have gone into extension in three of his last four contests.
The Golden Knights fell 2-2 to T-Mobile Arena this post-season with a defeat of 4-2 Tuesday. Captain Mark Stone gave Vegas a 2-0 lead with a couple of goals less than 10 minutes from the game, but the Oilers reduced the deficit at the end of the first period and scored three times in the third to remove the first blood of the series.
Edmonton has won five consecutive matches after losing the first two competitions of his first game against Los Angeles Kings. The Western Conference champion Reigning passed each of these five parties and entered the third period behind or tied in four of them.
Here are some value players to consider when making the bets on Thursday’s playoff games.
The best bets
Alex Ovechkin, capitals: scorer at any time (+165, BET365)
Ovecchkin did not become the new leader of all NHL goals in the regular season. No goals have come out of a goal since March 11-13 and has done so twice since the end of January. The next goal of Ovecchkin will be the 77th of his post -season career, which will transfer him ahead of the legendary Mario Lemieux for 12th place on the list of playoffs of all time. The 39-year-old Russian Superstile twice marked in three meetings with Carolina by 2024-25, and marked four highs during his seven-game seven-game game in 2019.
Dylan Strome, capitals: 1+ attendance (+100, Fanduel)
Strome won a career by 2024-25 with 53 assists and scored at least one in four of the five games in the first round of Washington against Montreal. The 28 -year -old center is tied by sixth in the NHL with seven assists, this post -empowerment after accumulating only two during its first 13 playoff competitions. Strome registered a couple of attendance at four meetings with Hurricanes in 2024-25 and has 11 in 22 games of the regular career season against Carolina.
Connor McDavid, Oilers: scorer at any time (+165, BET365)
The winner of the Conn Smythe trophy scored a couple of attendance against Golden Knights in match 1 for his fourth multi-spent performance in seven post-season contests. But his scored drought reached four games after he won five playoff games that go back to last year’s Stanley Cup final. The winner of the Maurice Richard Trophy of 2023, McDavid marked five times in the loss of six Edmonton games in Vegas in the second round of that year and has to register another after installing six in his last four competitions.
Leon Draisaitl, Oilers: 2+ points (+122, Fanduel)
Draisaitl is tied by fourth in the NHL with 12 points in seven games this post -season. The 29-year-old German published his fourth multi-spent performance in the series’s workshop, scoring one goal and the configuration of another. Draisaitl has registered several points in 36 of its 81 race playoff games and won the feat in three of its seven contests against the Golden Knights.
