Top NHL Prop Picks for Monday

Kyle Smith

Last Updated: November 29, 2021 6:00 AM EST • 1 min 49 sec read. Twitter link Google News Link

SEATTLE, WASHINGTON - NOVEMBER 04: Tage Thompson #72 of the Buffalo Sabres in action against the Seattle Kraken on November 04, 2021 at Climate Pledge Arena in Seattle, Washington. Steph Chambers/Getty Images/AFP (Photo by Steph Chambers / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)

The NHL rolls into the last Monday of November with four games on the slate and plenty of NHL prop pick opportunities to fatten your wallet with holiday cash.

For today's top prop bets, we're expecting Johnny Gaudreau and Clayton Keller to continue penciling their name on the scoresheet, while gigantic human being Tage Thompson will release the kraken against Seattle.

Here are my top NHL prop picks for Monday's matchups (odds via FanDuel Sportsbook, pick confidence based on 1-to-5-star scale).

Top NHL Prop Picks

Clayton Keller to record a point (-114) ???Johnny Gaudreau to record a point (-188) ????Tage Thompson to score a goal (+270) ??

NHL Prop Bets

Keller to record a point (-114)

Keller has been a shining beacon of hope in an otherwise dismal campaign for the Arizona Coyotes.

After a rough start to the season in which he could only muster four points in his first 11 games, the 23-year-old centerman has started to find his name on the scoresheet with some regularity of late, compiling seven points in his last five games. During that span, he's recorded two multi-point games and is averaging 2.4 shots on goal per game.

Facing a slumping Winnipeg Jets team that has lost four of its last five while allowing 3.6 goals per game, Keller should have plenty of opportunities to either find the back of the net or help a teammate do so, making for one of our top NHL prop picks.

Gaudreau to record a point (-188)

Gaudreau is playing some ridiculous hockey right now.

The impossibly shifty winger is currently enjoying a six-game point streak in which he's racked up five goals and 10 points, helping the Calgary Flames to a 4-1-1 record during that scoring tear. This season, the diminutive dynamo has 25 points in 21 games, good for sixth in NHL scoring.

On Monday night, Gaudreau squares off with a Pittsburgh Penguins team that has been extremely stingy defensively over their past couple of weeks. That said, the Pens did give up six goals (two empty-netters) in their loss to the lowly Montreal Canadiens on Saturday night, so it's not outside the realm of possibility that the high-scoring Flames (3.33 goals per game) put up a crooked number to cash this NHL prop pick.

Thompson to score a goal (+270)

Thompson has been a nice little (big?) surprise for a middling Buffalo Sabres team.

Leading the team with 10 goals in 21 games, the hulking winger has five goals in his last five contests, with two multi-goal games during that scoring spree. Squaring off against a defensively soft Seattle Kraken team that allows 3.48 goals per game, Thompson should have plenty of opportunities to light the lamp.

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NHL prop picks made 11/29/2021 at 10:26 a.m. ET

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Kyle Smith

A sportswriter for more than a decade, Kyle Smith was once voted “World’s 78th Greatest Lover” by ‘Relatively Attractive People Magazine’.* After covering nearly every sport under the sun for theScore, Smith settled in as head MMA writer where he helped shape the company’s coverage and establish its combat sports identity. Since then, he’s dipped his toes (cannonballed) into the world of betting, where he specializes in the UFC and NHL. Constantly chasing that gigantic Parlay Dragon, Smith was devastated when a Leon Edwards head kick completely obliterated a recent five-leg parlay. You can read his rantings and ravings on Twitter @Heldrificus. *Not a real publication.