How to Bet on the NHL With Prop Professor
If you’re looking to learn about shots on goal props or puck line bets, this guide to betting on the NHL with Prop Professor is exactly what you need. Read below about our positive EV, Arbitrage finder, Smart Money, Fantasy Optimizer, Comparison and Slip Generator tools so you can confidently make NHL bets this season.
How to Find +EV NHL Bets
There are many different ways to find positive EV NHL bets and understanding +EV betting at its core is crucial. In its simplest form, you can find +EV NHL bets by seeing sportsbooks that are offering lines significantly off from the rest of the market (especially those of sharp sportsbooks), and/or better than the fair value/de-vigged odds suggest for a given bet.
What this means is that if most of your popular sportsbooks such as DraftKings and FanDuel set a line of -140 for the Rangers to beat the Bruins (+120) but a book like Pinnacle has the Rangers at -115 and the Bruins at -105, there is a +EV NHL bet opportunity.
With the above example our fair value/de-vig odds calculator shows us that a line of -140/+120 has fair odds of about -130/+130 so the -115 line is clearly a better option. A -140 price carries a raw implied probability of 58.33% whereas Pinnacle’s -115 price carries a raw implied probability of 53.49%.
If the broader market’s de-vigged probability is accurate, consistently taking -115 instead of a fair price around -128 should produce positive expected value over a sufficiently large sample. Thankfully, our positive EV tool already factors in all of these aspects to show you +EV opportunities but remember, just because a bet is +EV doesn’t mean it will hit, rather over a large enough sample size you can expect a higher return on your investment with positive EV betting.
Find NHL Player Prop Value
If you prefer your NHL betting to be more focused on player props such as shots on goal, anytime goal scorer or OVER/UNDER points, our DFS Optimizer, Comparison and Slip Generator tools are perfect for you.
With our Optimizer tool, you can compare a DFS pick’em’s odds based on slip type against sportsbooks, other fantasy platforms and peer-to-peer exchanges. As DFS apps typically have set standard payouts, or multipliers, based on the number of selections in your slip, each selection has an implied break-even price. For example a four-pick insured Underdog slip has -115 odds per selection and you can use that to compare against the rest of the market.
You can also see if the player prop line is different than the rest of the market. For example, if you’re looking to bet the OVER on Auston Matthews shots on goal at 3.5 but one fantasy app has his line at 2.5, that could potentially offer significant +EV especially if the odds are the same.
Our Comparison tool is used for that last example, identifying prop lines that are off from the rest of the market. This can be very helpful in NHL betting where a lot of prop lines are low numbers so any significant discrepancy, provided the odds remain close to the same, offers great EV.
If you don’t want to manually sort through all of those opportunities you can utilize our Slip Generator which is constantly scanning the data and provides pre-built positive EV DFS slips in which you can use our One Click functionality to quickly bet the slip. This is especially useful in live, in-game betting scenarios.
Use Smart Money to Identify NHL Betting Opportunities
The Smart Money Tool shows liquidity available at specific prices across supported prediction markets and exchanges. Large amounts of resting liquidity can signal meaningful market interest, particularly when multiple markets are clustering around similar prices. You can then compare those prices with sportsbook odds to see whether a sportsbook may be offering a more favorable number.
Prediction markets can also attract higher-volume bettors because they allow participants to submit their own prices and may offer substantial liquidity at certain levels. In our Smart Money Tool, you can see where that liquidity is available and at which prices. If you expand the market, you can then compare those exchange prices with the odds available at sportsbooks to see whether there may also be a positive EV opportunity — giving you both market-depth information and sportsbook pricing in one place.
NHL Betting With Our Arb Finder Tool
If you’re in a state with plenty of sportsbooks available to you, Arbitrage betting could be your best NHL betting opportunity with Prop Professor. Our Arb Finder tool identifies opportunities in which two sportsbooks are offering such mismatched odds on opposing sides of a given bet that you can place wagers on both sides to guarantee a profit. That said, both wagers need to use the same market and grading rules, and you must be able to place the properly sized wager on each side. Otherwise, the guaranteed-profit opportunity can disappear.
Take for example, one sportsbook is offering Connor McDavid +120 odds to go OVER 1.5 points and another offers the UNDER at +110 odds, the combined implied probability of those two prices is below 100%, creating an arbitrage opportunity if both books grade the market identically.
Because Prop Professor scans 35+ sportsbooks roughly every second, NHL arbitrage opportunities can appear throughout the day as prices move.
Compare Stanley Cup and NHL Futures Odds
Prop Professor launched its Futures Screen in August 2026, giving NHL bettors one place to compare markets such as Stanley Cup winner, Hart Trophy, playoff qualification and more.
In addition to seeing where the best betting app is to place your futures bet, we have the fair value/de-vigged odds in a dedicated column so you can also see if that wager is +EV.