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Chandler Stephenson over 0.5 points (-135)
Chandler Stephenson had a career year during the regular season and has rolled his strong play into the playoffs. He has been one of the most reliable players for Vegas this season having played all but just 1 regular season game. While 65 points are far from threatening a league leader, the steady production across an entire season played is stability that a Stanley Cup contending team needs. Through 7 games played this postseason, stability is exactly what Stephenson has brought. He leads the Golden Knights with 5 goals and is second on the team with 9 points. In what is becoming a nasty, heated series, Vegas and Edmonton will need to lean on their reliable players to get the job done. Stephenson qualifies as a reliable player for the Golden Knights.
The teammates with whom Stephenson consistently shares the ice definitely reinforce the reliability that the team and coaching staff will have on him. He has averaged nearly 18 minutes of ice time in the first couple of games of this series. Ice time will only increase as the benches shorten with each minute played being higher and higher stakes. Stephenson centers the second line with Brett Howden and Mark Stone who leads the team with 11 points in 7 games. Chandler Stephenson also centers the top power play with Stone, Reilly Smith, Jack Eichel, and Alex Pietrangelo. In a very offensive series, there is plenty of opportunity for production. Stephenson has been in the thick of the production for Vegas in these playoffs and is in a good situation to continue to be so.