After a lengthy absence, the NHL finally makes its triumphant return to the ice tonight. The action will get underway in the early afternoon and run through late tonight. If you’re just starting out with sports betting, I recommend you read our NHL betting strategy guide or our NHL player prop betting strategy guide. Anyway, here are the top NHL player prop picks and predictions for today, Tuesday, October 8 — the NHL’s Opening Night!
NHL Player Prop Picks & Predictions Today: Tuesday, October 8
NHL Player Prop Picks & Predictions Today: Tuesday, October 8
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To help you get started building your portfolio of NHL player prop bets for today, October 8 (Opening Night!), tail these plays:
Let’s take a look at the top three NHL player props for today, October 8, per Portfolio EV — at least as of publication. Lines can move quickly, so check out shop pages for current +EV NHL bets!
How do the tools work? That’s simple: They index the odds from across the sports betting world to generate a breakeven price for each wager, which we call “true odds”. Once we have that number, we can estimate the +EV of each line at every book.
This evening, the best NHL player prop pick looks like Cale Makar to stay under 0.5 assists. You can find this bet trading for +160 at Hard Rock. You can find all of our +EV betting results posted here — we believe in full transparency.
This Makar play sits atop the model because every other book has a much, much less generous price. DraftKings has this one at +150. Pinnacle, a sharp book, is charging +134 for it — a difference just under 5% of implied probability.
Going further, we see bets for Viktor Arvidsson and Chris Kreider trading with +EV — the former for Arvidsson’s points, the latter for Kreider’s assists.
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