Finding Value in NHL Team’s First Goal of the Game Props:

One of my favorite prop plays over the past few weeks has been wagering on a player to score his team’s first goal of the game. Wagering on the first touchdown in an NFL or college football game has been widely popular over the years so at the start of the season I decided that I was going to track game by game, team by team if a player scored the first goal of the game as well as if he scored the first goal at home or on the road (offered at Fan Duel). Though wagering on the first player to score the first goal for the home or road teams has shorter odds than the overall first goal of the game, at a minimum, you are getting (+500) on your bet. Below, I will provide a breakdown by team of which player or players lead their respective team in the first goal category. For example, Brad Marchand of the Florida Panthers scored Florida’s first goal in eight of 23 games this season. If you wagered on Marchand to score his team’s first goal in all 23 games, you would be up approximately 25 units.

 
TeamsFirst goal of the game/PlayerTeam’s first goalAdditional Notes
TampaBrandon Hagel – 4Brandon Hagel – 5Scored Tampa’s 1st goal in each of the last two games
TampaJake Guentzel – 3Jake Guentzel – 4
OttawaDylan Cozens – 2Dylan Coens – 4
BostonMorgan Geekie – 2Morgan Geekie – 8Scored Bruins 1st road goal in six of the last 9 road games
MontrealCole Caufield – 3Oliver Kapanen – 4
DetroitDylan Larkin – 3Dylan Larkin – 5Alex DeBrincat has scored Detroit’s 1st goal in each of the last two games
DetroitLucas Raymond -2Lucas Raymond – 5
FloridaBrad Marchand – 3Brad Marchand – 8
TorontoJake McCabe – 2Bobby McMann – 3
BuffaloMultiple players with 1Josh Doan – 3
New JerseyTimo Meier – 6Timo Meier – 6Meier scored the first goal of the game in 3 consecutive games. 6 of his 8 goals are the team’s first goal.
CarolinaJordan Staal – 3Jordan Staal – 3Shayne Gostisbehere has scored the Canes 1st goal in back-to-back games. Staal has scored the first goal in 2 of the last 5 games.
WashingtonJohn Carlsson and Brandon Duhaime – 3 eachTom Wilson – 3
NY IslandersEmil Heineman – 3Emil Heineman – 4
PittsburghSidney Crosby – 3Sidney Crosby – 5
ColumbusAdam Fantilli and Zach Werenski – 2 eachAdam Fantilli – 3 (all on the road)
PhiladelphiaTyson Foerster – 2Owen Tippett – 3
NY RangersMika Zibanejad – 4Mika Zibanejad – 6
ColoradoMartin Necas – 5Martin Necas – 6Nathan MacKinnon and Cale Makar – 4 each
Dallas Mavrik Bourque – 3Mikko Rantanen and Wyatt Johnston – 4 each
MinnesotaMatt Boldy – 4Matt Boldy – 8Boldy has scored the first Minnesota goal in 3 of the last 8 games
UtahLogan Cooley – 4Logan Cooley – 4
ChicagoFrank Nazar and Tyler Bertuzzi – 3 eachTyler Bertuzzi – 5Bertuzzi scored the first road goal in 4 of the last 6 games
WinnipegNamestikov/Schiefele/Iafallo – 2 eachKyle Connor – 3
St. LouisDylan Holloway – 4, Jordan Kyrou – 3Holloway – 4, Kyrou – 3
NashvilleMichael Bunting – 3Michael Bunting – 4 Filip Forsberg, Matthew Wood and Ryan O’Reilly – 3 each
CalgaryRasmus Andersson – 3Matt Coronato – 4, Jonathan Huberdeau – 3
VegasJack Eichel and Ivan Barbashev – 2 eachPavel Dorofeyev – 6
VancouverLinus Karlsson – 3Sherwood – 3 (all home)Karlsson – 1st goal in 3 of the last 8 games
AnaheimBeckett Sennecke – 2Jackson LaCombe – 3LaCombe has scored Anaheim’s first goal in back-to-back games and three of the last five
Seattle Jaden Schwartz and Jordan Eberle – 3 eachJaden Schwartz – 5
LA KingsCorey Perry, Adrian Kempe and Alex Laferriere – 2 eachAlex Laferiere – 4
EdmontonJack Roslovic – 3Jack Roslovic – 4 (all on the road)

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