The Stanley Cup Playoffs roll into Round 2 starting tonight!  With fewer games each night, the lines are starting to get sharper.  Most of the lines are starting to see juice above -130, which is where I start to cut plays off personally.  With all of that being said, there are two players who have been absolutely crushing their shots on goal lines:

Valeri Nichushkin and Victor Hedman

Nichushkin has been tremendous of late for Colorado, hitting his o2.5 Shot on Goal line in 11 straight games and 17 of his last 20 games.  Over his past 10 games he is averaging 4.6 shots on goal per game.  Ideally, I would have liked his line to be at 3.5 for plus money, so if that is available, would play that as well, as he is over that in 8 out of 10 games.

St. Louis over the final 2 months of the season were also a great target for LW’s allowing the second most per game:




Hedman has been firing pucks on net averaging 6.14 shot attempts in the first-round while going over his o2.5 line in 5 out of 7 games and 8 out of his last 10 while averaging 3.8 shots on goal.

Hedman was great vs Florida in the regular season going over in all 4 matchups:

Over the last couple months of the season Florida started to creep up in shots allowed and allowed Washington to go over 30 shots on goal in 4 of the 6 games in round 1.  




Bet: Nichushkin + Hedman o2.5 Shots on Goal +158 (DK) 

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