Sizzling NHL Expert Releases Stanley Cup Playoff Picks

NHL expert David Kelly, a Toronto-born analyst with multiple advanced degrees, enters the 2019 NHL playoffs on an amazing 7-0 run. He's nailed nine of his last 10 picks and is dialed into the pulse of the NHL. Now, Kelly has pored over each team's odds to hoist the Stanley Cup and has locked in his picks to win.

We'll give one away. We can tell you he's eyeing the Knights, who reached the Stanley Cup Finals a year ago.

Vegas matches up well with the teams on its side of the bracket, Kelly said, and coach Gerard Gallant "is a master tactician. The Knights' style is perfectly suited for playoff-grind hockey. They are strong at home, so they need only steal a road victory early in any of their series to be at an advantage."

One surprise: Kelly wants no part of the Predators, the two-time defending Central Division champs who enter the postseason on a white-hot 9-2-1 run. "The Preds still rely far too heavily on a skilled cast of small forwards who can be contained," Kelly told SportsLine. "Can goalie Pekka Rinne get 16 wins in the playoffs? Doubtful."

Kelly also loves a team with longer Stanley Cup odds than the Knights. Anyone who bets on this underdog could hit it BIG.

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