10 games feels a little light for a Saturday, but we still have tons of player prop bets tonight. It's also nice to have more options available on Sunday. We call on the King of Player Props to guide us to glory tonight. Here are the bets for tonight:

Claude Giroux o0.5 points @ Carolina (-110)

The Claude Sweepstakes are heating up near the trade deadline, especially after the team locked down Ristolainen for 5 years for some unknown reason. His Projected WAR % is under 1%, which I have no idea what it means, but it came highlighted with a DEEP RED number, which can only be bad. And so management in Philly thought he would be a great staple in Philly for fans to lock on and absolutely HATE his play every night. It's going to make for some great radio calls that phone into WIP. You wanted playoff hockey, Rasmus? Well I got some news for you... you are going to be waiting a long time with that core in Philly, buddy! However, I do have a bit of a hot-take with Claude. There is all this talk about what team he will get traded to at the deadline, but I really just can't see them shipping him off yet. The trade deadline has also been notoriously anti-climatic in recent years. The Flyers will give Giroux at least one more year to underwhelm and do poorly as captain before cutting him. Philly is always late to the party with everything (cough cough, firing AV!). So anyway, this has mostly nothing to do with today's bet- but my dude has 12 points in the last 9 games against Carolina. Freddie Andersen looks like he will be back soon as Lyon was just sent down to the AHL again. However, I think he is going to be backup for this game unless they want to throw him a nice lay-up for easy work after his injury. The Hurricanes are on the front end of a back-to-back day of games, and tomorrow's opponent is Toronto. I refuse to believe Antti Raanta will screw us over 3 times in a row now (if he starts). Claude + Cam + Brassard also had 12 shot attempts in their last game. They are bound to score soon.

Mikael Granlund o0.5 points VS St. Louis (-135)

Granlund has 7 points scored in the last 3 years against St. Louis in 6 games, but he also has 43 points scored in 55 games played thus far. He also had a game against St. Louis this year where he posted 4 assists. I usually wait for the goalie start to confirm, before I make a decision on player props against St. Louis. I don't really think it matters anymore though. Jordan Binnington is a head-case Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde type player this season, and Husso has been cracked a bit recently. The over on assists jumps out to me at +120, additionally. This is Granlund's best chance to get on the board today.

Brandon Hagel o0.5 points @ Ottawa (+110)

5 points in the last 3 games played, Hagel is getting some momentum right before the trade deadline. There's a great chance he scores a goal tonight (+175) if still playing with Dach and Toews as the most likely person on that line to fire shots on net. However, he's toggled on and off with lines involving Kane and Strome and even occasionally Debrincat, so to be safe, a point is more conservative. Before Hagel is traded to fade some 3rd line on a team like Tampa Bay or New York (ala the Blake Coleman route), we should enjoy any chance we can while he's playing in Chicago.

Jack Hughes o3.5 shots VS Anaheim (+110)

It's sad to admit this, but maybe I was wrong about the Ducks making the playoffs. They are really dinged up with nagging injuries now to Zegras and Getzlaf and Gibson. Their defense has just been getting absolutely massacred. In the past 4 out of 5 games, the Ducks have let up 30 or more shots. Jack Hughes had 5 shots and 6 shots on goal in the last two games, as his deployment is averaging well over 21 minutes lately. I'm not sure that Sonny Milano, Sam Steel and Rickard Rakell will be able to contain the Hughes line today. Plus, the pairing of Lindholm and Drysdale gave up 11 shots on their own during the Nashville game.

Andrew Mangiapane anytime goal scorer VS Detroit (+140)

Poor Detroit and Ned. They had another embarrassing blow-up as they blew a 2 goal lead to the Wild and let up 5 goals in regulation (also losing the shootout). This team is playing worse defense than the Maple Leafs, and believe me, that cannot be taken lightly anymore. The team has let up 21 goals in the last 3 games. This is insanely bad. Eons of level of bad when you consider 9 goals against were the Arizona Coyotes! Mangiapane has been giving up his pursuit of the Cy Young award as he has 2 assists in the last 3 games. But this man has a tremendous chance to score tonight. I will take +140 odds against Detroit. Even Tommy Kuhnhackl would have great odds at +140 against this team.

Ryan Suter u0.5 points VS New York Rangers (-140)

Suter getting -140 for under a point against the future MVP Igor Shesterkin is a no-brainer to me. Suter has still been playing effective this year as a defenseman and recently he has been on a mini-run, but he is no longer a threat for a 60 point season. In fact, he isn't even on pace for a 40 point season this year, which would be under 0.5 points per game. In Igor we believe.

Victor Hedman o0.5 assists @ Edmonton (-125)

Hedman has 3 points in the last 3 games, but would you believe that they are all goals? I think this is beefing up the assist line for him tonight, but zooming out a bit and we see that Victor has 43 assists in 57 games played this year. He did log 3 assists 4 games ago too recently. Edmonton has been locking down their opponents to under 4 goals recently, which is an improvement... but I don't think Koskinen is going to do that every night.