I’ve got two NHL prop picks from today’s loaded 11-game slate.
The pregame narrative: Anthony Cirelli is chugging and his Tampa Bay Lightning get a Colorado Avalanche team with horrible goaltending. Also, fade a struggling Claude Giroux against the Calgary Flames.
Find my NHL prop picks for Nov. 25 below.
NHL prop picks
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Best Bet: Cirelli to score 1+ points (-143)
Tampa Bay’s top line of Jake Guentzel, Brayden Point and Nikita Kucherov is stacked and I expect them to shred the Avalanche tonight.
But those three players hold -182, -205 and -625 odds to register a point, respectively, so I’m turning elsewhere.
Cirelli has been a beast of a second-line centre this season, racking up eight goals and 21 points in 19 games.
He’s been on a particularly impressive five-game heater:
- Nov. 23 vs. Dallas: 2 goals
- Nov. 21 vs. Columbus: 1 goal, 1 assist
- Nov. 19 vs. Pittsburgh: 1 goal
- Nov. 16 vs. New Jersey: 1 goal, 1 assist
- Nov. 14 vs. Winnipeg: 1 goal
On Monday, he gets to face an Avalanche team in the midst of a serious goaltending crisis as both Alexandar Georgiev and Justus Annunen have struggled mightily.
Annunen is expected to get the nod tonight. The fourth-year Finn owns a 2.81 GAA (33rd in NHL) to pair with a .886 save percentage (45th in NHL).
Key stat: Cirelli has eight points in his last five games.
Quick pick
Giroux under 0.5 points (-106): Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: The Senators are awful.
Ottawa has lost five straight games and eight of its 11 in November, scoring a meager 2.18 goals per game.
Giroux has just four points in that span and two of them came in one game, meaning he’s 3-8 against this line this month.
The veteran winger is in the twilight years of his career and doesn’t get time on Ottawa’s first power play unit.
The Sens are also hosting a Flames team which has won four straight behind the red-hot goaltending of Dustin Wolf.
Wolf has a 2.33 GAA (12th in NHL) to pair with a .926 SV% (T-3 in NHL) and has allowed just four goals in his last four starts.
NHL picks made at 12:07 p.m. on 11/25/2024.
Avery joined NorthStar Gaming as an intern in 2022 before stepping into a full-time role soon after. He loves betting on and analyzing golf — mainly because it’s easier than actually playing — but is a fan of all sports, from the NFL to the UFC.