The middle of the week has a modest 4-game NHL slate featuring some of the premier superstars in hockey. Auston Matthews and company visit Erik Karlsson, Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl visit Patrick Kane, budding star Tage Thompson visits a young gun Red Wings team, and Artemi Panarin visits a young Senators group led by Brady Tkachuk. There is plenty of entertaining action across these games and there will be plenty of highlights. If you’re looking to have some action, check out our favorite NHL player props for Wednesday. Along with our player props, be sure to also check out our NHL picks for each of today’s games.
Mitch Marner over 1.5 points (+115)
Mitch Marner is riding a 17 game point streak which is 1 game short of tying the Maple Leafs franchise record. He gets a great opportunity to extend his point streak to 18 games against the Sharks. San Jose is near the bottom of the Western Conference with an 8-13-4 record. They rank 22nd in the NHL in goals allowed per game with 3.44, and they have allowed the T-most 5 on 5 goals in the league. Toronto is in great form overall having won their last 4 straight, and they have points in 14 of their last 15 games. The Leafs have the 3rd most points at home in the league this season, and have a very favorable matchup again on Wednesday night.
Marner leads the Maple Leafs in points with 28 in 24 games. He has points in all but 2 games this season. The Leafs visited the Sharks in October and go figure, Marner had a goal and an assist in 22:02 of ice time. At any time, Marner is likely on the ice with some combination of John Tavares, Auston Matthews, and William Nylander among other strong players in Toronto's lineup. Marner averages over 21 minutes of ice time per game. He is and plays with a good team's top players both 5 on 5 and on the power play, is playing great hockey right now, and has a very favorable matchup. A couple points to extend his streak to a record tying mark is incentive and is very realistic.