Top NHL GIFT & Anytime Goal Scorer Prop Bet Picks: Wednesday (11/6)

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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2024 Record: 26-37| GIFT Record: 11-10 | ATG Record: 15-27 | Last: 1-2 | Odds courtesy of DraftKings Sportsbook

The Detroit Red Wings will roll out Cam Talbot to mind the net. The 37-year-old is 3-1-1 while carrying a 2.74 GAA and a .923 Save% this season. The Wings are 7-4 cashing the GIFT, including a 4-1 record this season away from Little Caesars Arena.

On the opposite side of the rink, Chicago will send out Petr Mrazek to tend the twine. The 32-year-old is 4-6-0 while carrying a 3.02 GAA and a .900 Save% this season. The Hawks are 9-4 cashing the GIFT this season, with a pristine 4-0 record on the friendly United Center ice.

These two teams faced off on February 25, also in Chicago, in Patrick Kane’s first time returning to the United Center as a non-Blackhawk. The game will always be remembered for Kane’s walkoff OT winner but the fact the GIFT failed to cash has probably been long forgotten. That was then, this is now. Book the GIFT!

Pick: Goal In First Ten (-154)

Alex Ovechkin (+140) – G+ in L4 & 6-of-L8, 5G in L4, 5-of-7 G (.714) at home, G vs. NSH in ’23Leon Draisaitl (+125) – 6G in L6, G+ in 7-of-L12, G vs. VGK in ’23

ATG Parlay Odds: +440

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