It might be my last NHL preview of the season Thursday night as the Vegas Golden Knights visit the Carolina Hurricanes in Game 5 of the Stanley Cup Final with it tied 2-2 and a puck drop of 8 ET. Needless to say, tonight’s winner could hoist the Cup in Game 6 on Sunday when I’m off. I’m hoping for a Game 7 back in Raleigh next Wednesday and would be all over that. Use the latest DraftKings promo code to get benefits when you place your NHL bets.Golden Knights vs. Hurricanes same-game parlayVegas alt +2.5Carolina alt Over 2.5 goals scored FanDuel SGP price: +115Frankly, this series deserves to go seven games with how fantastic it has been, and Carolina’s 5-3 road win in Game 4 on Tuesday was more of the same. I will admit that the Hurricanes’ empty-net goal ruined my +175 parlay of Golden Knights +1.5 and Canes Over 2.5 team goals. An empty-netter is always a risk betting +1.5 in the NHL, but especially in the playoffs. The Knights had rallied from a 3-1 hole in the second to tie it entering the third, but Jordan Staal’s seventh goal of these playoffs proved the winner at 6:32 of the third, and then Nikolaj Ehlers put a stake in my heart with the EN score at 19:05. We were so close to a fourth straight one-goal game, and now all four in the Final have seen at least seven total goals scored. It’s the first Stanley Cup Final in history where four games featured a team rallying from a multi-goal deficit to at least tie the game. In addition, it’s the third Final in the expansion era (since 1967-68) to see each of the first four games tied at any point in the third period, and first since Blackhawks-Lightning in 2015 (I remember that so well) had the first five as such. Finally, the 33 goals scored are tied for the second-highest total through the first four games of a Final – needless to say, all four have landed Over the total. We finally have 6.5’s on the totals board for Game 5, whereas only 5.5’s and a few 6’s in the first four games. Despite the series being tied, and after he was held to one assist in Game 4, Vegas forward Mitchell Marner remains the Conn Smythe Trophy favorite at -105 as he continues to lead the postseason by far in scoring with 29 points. But three Carolina forwards all got huge boosts on that futures prop in Taylor Hall (now +380), Logan Stankoven (also +380) and Staal (+550). Staal was the No. 1 star of Game 4 with two goals, and at age 37 years and 272 days on Tuesday he became the third-oldest player to record a…
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2026-06-11 14:22:00
