Potentially high-scoring Game 6 between Canucks, Oilers a spot to target player prop bets

For casual hockey fans, the question is clear: How are the Vancouver Canucks doing this? How is a team with a third-string goaltender in Arturs Silov and a struggling star forward in Elias Pettersson one win away from beating the Edmonton Oilers in the second round of the playoffs? The reasons are varied.

Here is the point where credit needs to be accorded to the adversary. The Oilers aren’t just losing this series. The Canucks are trying to pressure and forecheck the Oilers into submission, and it is working. The Canucks’ offensive scheme is going low to high and spreading the Oilers out. They force Edmonton to sort out its coverage when they bring a forward to the point or use the middle slot for a deflection. Other defencemen can execute, but Hughes is the catalyst who generates opportunities on the cycle and off set plays from won faceoffs.

The logic makes sense: With Pettersson slumping, Lindholm and Hughes are the elixirs. Miller and Boeser promptly saw less than four minutes with Hughes at 5-on-5 on Thursday, but worked closely with him on the power play, which had a different look in Game 5.

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