Top NHL GIFT & Anytime Goal Scorer Prop Bet Picks: Tuesday (11/5)

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: 25-35| GIFT Record: 11-9 | ATG Record: 14-26 | Last: 1-2 | Odds courtesy of DraftKings Sportsbook

The Calgary Flames will likely send out Dustin Wolf to tend the twine. The 23-year-old is 3-2-0 while carrying a 3.19 GAA and a .907 Save% this season. The Infernos are 6-5 cashing the GIFT, including a 4-1 record this season away from Scotiabank Saddledome.

On the other side of the ice, Montreal will roll out Sam Montembeault to mind the net. The 28-year-old is 3-5-0 while carrying a 3.43 GAA and a .894 Save% this season. The Habs are 7-4 cashing the GIFT this season, with a stellar 6-1 (.857) record on the friendly Bell Centre ice.

These two teams faced off on March 16 in Calgary and the GIFT failed to cash, with the first goal not coming until a Mikael Backlund power play goal at the 16:23 mark of the first period. However, that game finished with seven total goals so the issue last time was timing, not scoring. The GIFT cashes tonight.

Pick: Goal In First Ten (-160)

Martin Necas (+170) – G in L3, G in 6-of-L8, G in L2 at home, 16-of-24 G (.667) at home in ’23Cole Caufield (+145) – G in 4-of-L5, 6G in L7, G vs, CGY in ’23, 10G (leads NHL)

ATG Parlay Odds: +561

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