Star player prop bets, specials to track during 2022-23 season

The NHL is back for the 2022-23 season. There are increasing bets on goals, points and other stats. Sports gambling is legalized in many jurisdictions across North America.

Star player prop bets, specials to track during 2022-23 NHL season. Scoring was up across the league last season, with eight players surpassing 100 points, 17 players having 40 or more goals, 51 forwards having at least 30 goals.

Auston Matthews is favourite to win the third consecutive league title. Pavel Bure and Brett Hull were the last players to do it. Leon Draisaitl, Connor McDavid, Alex Ovechkin, Kyle Connor, Kiril Kaprizov, Chris Kreider, David Pastrnak, and Alex DeBrincat are the next-best bets. Sports Interaction has a prop called Mighty Mustache Magic where you bet on whether Matthews will outdo the league-high 60 goals he scored last season.

McDavid is coming off a career-high 44 goals, 79 assists and 123 points. He is the odds-on favourite to win the Hart Trophy for the third time in his career.

There were four 50-goal scorers in 2021-22 season. Connor scored 47 goals, Kaprizov in 81 games. Last season there were five 50 goal scoreors in one season, 2005-06.

Ovechkin's goal total this season is 45.5. The prop to follow this year is when he can join Gretzky and Howe in the 800-goal club. Ottawa, Winnipeg and Philadelphia have the shortest odds at +700 each. Winnipeg plays Washington 12 days apart in December, while Ottawa sees the Caps a couple days before and a few days after the Christmas break. If Ovehkin fails to score 20 goals for the first time in his NHL career it would pay out at -900.

Johnny Gaudreau, Matthew Tkachuk, Jonathan Huberdeau and Nazem Kadri were traded this summer. MacKenzie Weegar was signed by Calgary. Claude Giroux and Alex DeBrincat were signed in Ottawa. The prop bets for the 2022-23 season are: Gudreau over/under 85.5 points, 31. 5 goals, T kachuck over over 85 points and 33.

Kirby Dach is expected to have a breakout season in Montreal. DeBrincat is over/under 72.5 points, 37. 5 goals and Giroux is under 63.

Matt Murray is a betting man on his over/under .909 save percentage. The 28-year-old goalie had a .906 save Percentage in 20 games with Ottawa last season. Jack Campbell had .916 overall save % in his two-plus seasons with Toronto.

Sport Interaction has -139 on the over and -101 on under for Phil Kessel. Kellett had a career-low eight goals last season. He's been signed by the Golden Knights.