How to use NHL Game center

Open NHL Game center. If you like to start from a game rather than a player, Game center is the place. Pick a matchup and everything about it is on one screen: both defenses, the skaters and their props, the goalies and the lines.

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Pick a game

The first screen shows the slate as cards. Each card has puck drop, the arena, both teams with their win-loss-overtime records, and a note when a team is on a back-to-back (played yesterday, which often means the backup goalie starts). Click a card, or Matchup ›, to open it.

Use the date arrows to look at another day.

Inside a game

Across the top: ← All games goes back to the slate, the game pill and the ‹ › arrows switch games, and four views sit next to them.

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• Matchup: the game's moneyline, total and puck line, the projected goalies, a rink showing where each defense allows shots, defense vs position for both teams, team ranks and the injury report. Start here.
• Skaters: every skater in the game with their recent numbers and props. Pick a market to switch what the table shows. Click a shooter to see their shot map.
• Goalies: each projected starter, where on the ice they give up goals, and their saves ladder (how often they cleared each saves line, with prices).
• Lines: the forward lines, defense pairs and power-play units each team has been using.

Press Esc to go back to the slate.

Your first five minutes

1. Open the game you care about from the slate.
2. Read Matchup. Which defense is softer, and against which positions?
3. Check the goalies. A backup in net changes goals, points and saves props. Goalies are projected, not confirmed, until warmups.
4. Find your player in Skaters. Then follow them into the sheet for that stat: Shots on goal, Goalscorers or Top props.
5. Check Lines before betting linemates together, then look at Point correlation for how often they score together.

Tips for newer bettors

• Back-to-backs matter. A team on the second night of a back-to-back is often tired and usually starts its backup goalie.
• Lines change at the morning skate. If a player has moved lines, their props can be stale. Re-check close to puck drop.
• One game at a time is fine. You don't need to research the whole slate. Pick the game you'll watch and go deep.

Troubleshooting

• No games: there may be no games on that date. Step forward with the date arrows.
• A goalie looks wrong: projections update through the day.
• A skater has no prop: no book has posted that market for them yet.