A best practice when it comes to betting player props is to take a stand on how you think a given game will play out …
A best practice when it comes to betting player props is to take a stand on how you think a given game will play out and then make correlated wagers off of that hypothesis. For instance, if you think that a given game is going to feature plenty of scoring, you’ll want to find bets that fit that pattern like a first-period over or an alternate spread. The same rings true in the other direction. If you think a game will be low-event, there are a lot of prop bets on the board that will correlate to that game-script. And while the first three games of the Stanley Cup Final between the Colorado Avalanche and Tampa Bay Lightning have gone over the total, there are some signals pointing to Game 4 being pretty rigid. Here are a few prop bets that provide value in that type of game environment:
The Avalanche and Lightning have scored 10 first-period goals through three games in the Stanley Cup Final, so a bet on the teams to be tied, 0-0, at the intermission may seem a bit foolish, but it would not be surprising to see these two teams play a more cautious style of hockey right out of the gates.
