Morning Coffee: An NHL Futures Bet To Consider

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The puck drops on the 2022-23 NHL regular season in just eight days.

While the opener always seems to creep up on us during the first few weeks of the NFL season, it’s not like we are completely unprepared at this point.

Last night, my fantasy hockey season officially got underway with a draft for a keeper league that spans more than a decade. 

While I had my work cut out for me as a manager that sold last year in an attempt to accumulate as many high picks as possible, I was fortunate to build around one key player that I think is still being slept on both in fantasy hockey leagues and among the trading team at FanDuel.

Let me explain with a look at an NHL futures bet to consider right now at FanDuel.

Here’s the Morning Coffee for Wednesday September 28th, 2022.

Will Jack Hughes Take Another Step This Season?

The New Jersey Devils selected Jack Hughes with the 1st overall pick in the 2019 NHL Draft.

After accumulating 52 points in 117 games over his first two seasons in the league, Hughes took a major step as a 20-year-old last season.

Hughes scored 26 goals and recorded 56 points in just 49 games.

For a little perspective, his 0.53 goals per game matched Jake Guentzel and Nikita Kucherov for the 15th-best mark in the entire NHL.

His 1.14 points per game ranked among the top-25 skaters in the entire NHL – the exact same number that Brad Marchand produced.

The future of the league