{"id":346396,"date":"2025-05-13T17:05:02","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T21:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.northstargaming.ca\/admin\/nsgcms\/?p=346396"},"modified":"2025-05-14T08:19:20","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T12:19:20","slug":"oilers-vs-golden-knights-prop-picks-game-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.northstargaming.ca\/admin\/nsgcms\/oilers-vs-golden-knights-prop-picks-game-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Oilers vs. Golden Knights prop picks Game 5: Back Leon Draisaitl, fade Tomas Hertl on Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Edmonton Oilers can advance with a road win over the Vegas Golden Knights on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The pregame narrative:<\/strong> Vegas, down 3-1 after getting blanked for the first time in the playoffs, is a slight favourite with its season on the line. A victory for Edmonton would mark the club&#8217;s third trip to the Western Conference finals in four years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Check out my Oilers vs. Golden Knights prop picks on Leon Draisaitl and Thomas Hertl for Game 5 on May 14.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Oilers vs. Golden Knights picks<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.northstarbets.com\/sportsbook\/sports\/ice_hockey\/competitions\/10011\"><strong>Full NHL betting markets<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.northstarbets.com\/sportsbook\/news\/article\/nhl-injury-report-2\"><strong>NHL injury report<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.northstarbets.com\/sportsbook\/news\/stats\/nhl\/standings\"><strong>NHL player stats<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.northstarbets.com\/sportsbook\/news\/stats\/nhl\/standings\"><strong>NHL standings<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Best bet: Draisaitl to score (+115)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Few players rise to the occasion like Draisaitl. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The German has five goals this postseason and 46 goals in 84 career playoff games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That puts him ninth all-time in postseason goals per game (0.548), ahead of names like Pavel Bure, Jari Kurri and Brett Hull.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Draisaitl scored in both road games to open this series and has found the net in four of five contests away from home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Riding shotgun with Connor McDavid certainly helps. McDavid leads all postseason skaters with 14 assists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Edmonton&#8217;s top line of McDavid, Draisaitl and Corey Perry has dominated this series at 5v5.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They own a 61.82% Corsi rate (chances allowed divided by chances created), according to Natural Stat Trick, and have outscored the opposition 4-2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Key stat:<\/strong> Draisaitl has scored in four of his last six games against Vegas. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Game 5 prop prediction<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Hertl to not record a point (-125):<\/strong> The Golden Knights have gotten caved in at 5v5 this series, which will ultimately be their undoing, barring an unlikely comeback.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vegas has been outscored 13-7 at even strength, and Hertl has been one of many Golden Knights struggling to produce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Czech winger has been shuffled around the Golden Knights&#8217; lineup this series and has nothing to show for it, logging zero points and 10 shots in four games. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He&#8217;s now been held pointless in six straight games and seven of his last eight dating back to the first round against the Minnesota Wild. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hertl does play on the top power-play unit, but that group is also in a rut, going 2-for-12 this series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Oilers vs. Golden Knights prop picks made at 4:20 p.m. ET 05\/13\/2025.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Edmonton Oilers can advance with a road win over the Vegas Golden Knights on Wednesday. The pregame narrative: Vegas, down 3-1 after getting blanked for the first time in the playoffs, is a slight favourite with its season on the line. A victory for Edmonton would mark the club&#8217;s third trip to the Western [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":346376,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sidebar_plugin_meta_block_field":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[452,58],"tags":[49],"class_list":["post-346396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-com","category-nhl","tag-nhl"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Oilers vs. Golden Knights picks: Game 5 prop predictions | NSB<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Check out our Game 5 Oilers vs. Golden Knights picks. 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