After a great 10-game Friday night, we went 1-1 targeting 2 skaters in black and yellow. Sidney Crosby almost never lets us down, and will be in action again tonight. I'll 100% personally be targeting his assist prop again knowing it will hit tonight instead, but we still have 2 other player props we love for today's games. We have another theme as well. We're targeting 2 skaters with names that start with M, have interesting last names and wear green. With that in mind, let's use them to earn you some green today as well.
Along with our player props, be sure to check out all of our NHL picks for today's action.
Mats Zuccarello over 0.5 assists (-150)
The first of our targets is a skater we've focused on in the past as well. Before we dive in, we love Kirill Kaprizov to record multiple points tonight, but we target him quite often. Therefore, we're going to pivot just a bit with a play with love just as much. Kaprizov going off certainly helps Zuccarello hit this assist prop as well. Ironically, it was Kaprizov who dished out a helper for Zuccarello's goal last night. The script should flip tonight in what is usually the case for that duo. Kaprizov is the one with 17 goals, while Zuccarello has already notched 17 assists.'
He had 55 of them last season, and now gets to face a team he feasts on. Zuccarello had 3 assists in 3 games against the Vancouver Canucks last season, and had another in their first meeting this season. Although the Wild are on the road this time around, the Canucks goaltending has only gone downhill since their first matchup. They're allowing the 8th-most goals per game in the last month, the 5th-most at home, and 3rd-most overall. Zuccarello has 6 points across his last 2 games against the Canucks, and we expect a classic Zuccarello assist to Kaprizov goal again tonight.