Top NHL GIFT & Anytime Goal Scorer Prop Bet Picks: Wednesday (11/13)
Betting the GIFT (Goal In First Ten) is simple. Pick whether or not a game will have a goal scored in the first 10 minutes of play (00:00-09:59). It's that easy and all you have to do is root for anyone to score and you win. It is one area of hockey betting that has a nearly league-wide positive success rate with 93.75% of the league cashing at 50% or better last season.
Anytime Goal Scorer props are even easier. Pick a player to score and if they light the lamp at any point, you win!
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Wednesday’s Best GIFT & Anytime Goal Scorer Prop Bets
2024 Record: 34-43 | GIFT Record: 14-11 | ATG Record: 20-32 | Last: 2-2 | Odds courtesy of DraftKings Sportsbook
Carolina Hurricanes at Utah Hockey Club
The Hurricanes will send out Pyotr Kochetkov to mind the net. The 25-year-old is 8-1-0 while carrying a 2.45 GAA and a .902 Save% this season. The Canes are 9-5 cashing the GIFT this season, including six cashes in eight games away from Lenovo Center. The GIFT is 4-1 in Carolina’s last five games and 8-2 in their last 10.
On the opposite end of the rink, Utah will send out Karel Vejmelka to tend the twine. The 28-year-old is 0-3-0 while carrying a 2.75 GAA and an .899 Save% this season. Utah is 7-8 cashing the GIFT this season, with three of those cashes coming on the friendly Delta Center ice. The GIFT is 1-0 in Vejmelka’s lone home start this season.
These two teams last faced off back on February 16 and the GIFT cashed lightning fast on a Jordan Martinook backhander at the 00:16 mark! Martinook has been on a tear lately with five goals in his last four games so he could cash the GIFT himself again tonight. If not him, someone is scoring in the first ten in Utah tonight.
Pick: Goal In First Ten (-160)
Anytime Goal Scorer Picks
Alex Ovechkin (+125) – G in L3, 7G in L9, 4G in L4 day games, 2G vs. MTL in ’23
Jordan Martinook (+370) – G+ in L4, 5G in L4, G vs. franchise (ARI) in ’23
ATG Parlay Odds: +957
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