NHL Prop Picks and Best Bets for October 30

Picks made from 10:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. ET.

Today’s NHL Prop Picks and Best Bets

Prop Bet #1: Jets Team Total Over 3.5

+110 at DraftKings

THE Winnipeg Jets“The offense had a great game today against the Detroit Red Wings today, as Winnipeg scores 4.44 goals per game (second) and has the league’s leading power play scoring at 44%. That could be the difference against the Red Wings, who have a penalty kill that ranks 30th in the league at 66 percent and have allowed nine power-play goals in the last seven games.

The Jets are also coming off a 6-4 loss to the Leafs – their first of the season. This is an offense that has scored four or more goals in five of its last six games.

I wouldn’t be surprised if Winnipeg dominated the time of possession today, as the Wings have been outscored by an average of 15.2 shots per game over their last five games. This number is staggering and the #1 team in hockey will take advantage of it on the road in a successful game for the Jets.

Prop bet #2: Pavel Dorofeyev + Tomas Hertl Over 0.5 points each

+280 at DraftKings

THE Vegas Golden Knights have the best offense in hockey with 4.7 goals per game and face a Los Angeles Kings team which is in its second consecutive game after losing in bad fashion last night against the Sharks, 4-2.

The Eichel/Stone pair have scored points this season, but on the road without the last change and against a team with good defensive centers, my NHL Pick bet on the second line of Pavel Dorofeyev And Thomas Hertl to find the match sheet this evening.

The duo pays +280 to record a point each, and since they also play together on the first power play unit, the correlation between them pointing to the same goal is strong.

LA will start Darcy Kuemper tonight in game 2 and that’s probably best for the Vegas offense since Kuemper has a 3.30 GAA and a .891 SV% over the last two seasons (37 games played).

Dorofeyev and Hertl have a combined 17 points in the team’s 10 games and had a combined five points just two games ago.

Prop bet #3: Jake Guentzel More than 0.5 assists

+110 on bet365

THE Colorado Avalanche are starting their third goaltender and recent waiver addition, Kaapo Kahkonen. This will be his first start with the club which has the second worst GAA in the league with 4.10. Kahkonen has posted a GAA of 3.75 and an SV% of 0.890 over the last three seasons (74 games played). This is not a small sample.

The Avs will also face a defenseman up front tonight as injuries pile up on the wing. Colorado lost Ross Colton in its last game.

All this leads to a certain offensive on the part of the first line of the Tampa Bay Lightning with a Jake Guentzel help to be the best value for money accessory Over. The TB freshman winger had assists in five of his nine games and played over 19 minutes of ice while averaging 3:30 of PP1 ice time.

With Nikita Kucherov having already scored over 1.5 points per game this season, Guentzel is a perfect guy to target tonight for an assist in a game I like above 6.5.

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