Speaker 1: NHL Best Bets for Tuesday, January sixth, twenty twenty six. Guys,
Welcome to Puck Time on a Wager Talk TV. Andrew McGinnis,
Carmea and Bianco, Lawrence Presman, and Don Buster. We got
a load of show for you guys and can't wait
to dive into these games with the condensed schedule. It's
such a busy time for every single team in the
NHL right now. We've got a handful of games to
get to. Actually, we've got some barking dogs today. We
got some great, great matchups today. We've got some heavy hitters.
Look forward to hearing from everybody on today's show. Carm
what's up, brother?
Speaker 2: How are you?
Speaker 1: Good morning?
Speaker 3: What's up? The dogs are always barking at some point
in a big card like this, there's gotta be some
underdogs that are barking tonight. We can't have all favorites winning.
That's not fun. No remakes. Well, you make money if
you're betting all favorites and they win. But other than that,
I watched I didn't like to watch one last night. Yeah. Well,
I had Utah who were a dog but became a
slight favorite. And then I had to over in the
Autowa game. As I mentioned, sometimes you got to look
at the goalies, and Marilinen did not look good. But
I did say the Detroit Red Wings were a live dog.
I just didn't know that all the dogs would be live.
But I'm glad the Red Wings plus one thirty a
little blip or a bit blip on this on the
on the schedule for them losing those two to Pittsburgh,
but right back out of getting a win and a
big win for them. Man. I watched the first period
of that Elie Kings and Minnesota game because that was
the pod play that eventually went down. I went to
sleep at the end of the first period. Minnesota was
all over them in that first period, could not get
the goal to put them ahead, and I'm like, I
just can't watch the rest of this game. This could
very well finish two to one. I'd rather get a
good night's sleep and finished four to two. But the
analytic numbers in that game shows you it was a
playoff type game. It was as easy even as you
can get. Four eighty one to four seventy two were
the expected goals nine and a half expected goals they
ended up with with six. That tells you how good
both goalies were. High danger chances twenty to nineteen, shots
on goal thirty five to thirty three. Pretty much as
even as you could get in a game despite the
four two score line. But one goal here or there
completely changes it.
Speaker 2: What a game.
Speaker 3: But no, I'm not having a bad hair day. I'm
having a good hair day, Chuck. It's just I'm wearing
the hat because we're bringing this guy in. I can't
have him wearing the only hat on the show, the one,
the only the man who's vacationing in Florida, the Pres.
Speaker 1: We got to bring him on. And you know what, Pres,
he wonted on a game yesterday. He gave out that
you and I were both given out as well. He
had the under in Utah and we both had Utah.
So I gotta love that threes of three of us
had to pick on the same game and all of
us cast good morning, Pres. How is your round with
that Joe? Yesterday?
Speaker 4: It was good. Joe is a hell of an athlete man,
But and he just that dude just oozes machismo. I mean,
he is like as manly a man as you'll ever meet,
Like Mark Zeno, called and he's like, I want your Wiismo.
Speaker 1: Back, hide your wife around Joe.
Speaker 4: Eh yeah, yeah, I mean yeah, it's uh, but it
was amazing. I mean, he's such an incredible athlete. He
doesn't play golf a lot, but I mean he got
We played nine holes. I think he got two birdies.
I don't get birdies. I need to play at least
one hundred holes before one birdie might appear miraculously due
to total fluke. Ah, what's going on? Boys?
Speaker 1: I was looking around yesterday, Prez. I've officially decided that
I'm going to pull the trigger and I have to
get fitted because it's been too long playing the game
of golf where I haven't taken it really seriously enough
to want to like spend the money on getting fitted
and getting brand new clubs and things. But I'm too
tall to be playing with the same you know, hype
clubs that my friends that are like five ten play with,
and I feel like it's hurting my game. And I
know I'm not good, so I don't use it as
an excuse, but it's definitely not helping me at all.
So you gotta get got to get fitted, Gotta get.
Speaker 4: First and foremost seven foot eight people do not play
golf if you actually look around in the golfing annals
of golfers. Yeah, you're better off being five foot seven.
Speaker 5: Bro.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what about Michael Jordan?
Speaker 3: He loves golf.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't recall him making the tour, but I mean,
what do I know?
Speaker 3: He is Michael Jordan. He loves the gamble. But then
he's got the shoe money, so it's all good.
Speaker 4: The I was just reading about out him yesterday. It
calls him the second rich the first richest athlete of
all time, number one of all time, but that's not
actually true.
Speaker 3: Well, there's a lot of overplayd athletes, and which brings
us to No, I want to.
Speaker 2: Tell you who is and the uh, I.
Speaker 4: Got to tell you who is true? What? Okay, who's
the most Who is the richest athlete of all time?
Speaker 3: The richest athlete of all time? Male or female?
Speaker 1: It's a horse.
Speaker 4: Secretariat, No, and I think the horse is female. There
is a horse that sired and this was about five
years ago, every single Kentucky Derby winner in the last
like thirty years or something that that horse's jizz is
a quarter of a million dollars and he jizzes all day.
Speaker 2: Baby.
Speaker 3: Gee, so that's a male horse, which, oh yeah, male horse. Yes, Harriot, Yes,
Harriot was a male horse.
Speaker 4: It is not Secretariat, but there is an old Dancer.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 3: The two biggest horses are. I would say Secretary and
Northern Dancer. Their bloodlines continue. But okay, speaking of the
blood line, let's let's come on man. Uh for the
we want Florida fans. Uh from a couple of years ago,
the leaf fans flamoring for the Florida Panthers minus one
twenty nine for the Panthers tonight in Toronto, plus one
oh seven for the Leafs total six here at six.
I know you. You normally come on the show and
you're like, um, leaf totals, leaf totals. I want you
to give me a sight in this game instead.
Speaker 4: Well, I mean we have to look at this from
a value perspective. Solely, I don't know why Florida is
favored here a minus one twenty two. I mean, look
this Florida Panthers team.
Speaker 1: I get it.
Speaker 4: Every year they play the Leafs in the playoffs and
they win, but it isn't the playoffs and they don't
beat the Leafs during the regular season, because that's when
the Leafs actually show up and play. Leafs beat them
already this year December two for to one. I don't
think this Florida team is as good as everybody thinks
they are, especially without their two big guns Ka Chuck
and bark Off. This Florida team, it's not exactly like
they're coming into this game on a roll. Sure, they
beat Colorado two to one, which is a big, big win,
and not only a big win, but sets up a
letdown spot. Granted, there wouldn't be a letdown spot as
they're playing their rivals, the Toronto Maple Leafs, but this
is a team that has lost two of their last three.
They you know, they're not exactly on fire right now,
and the Toronto Maple Leafs have not lost in regulation
in six games in a row. They made They played
mediocre against the New York Islanders. They only put up
twenty one shots, and their power play has started to
slightly turn around. But interestingly enough, they only had one
power play against the New York Islanders, and that suggests
to me that we might probably get three to four
power plays tonight from the Leafs. Now William Nielander is
out tonight and that is a big deal. But then
so is Barkoff and so is Matthew Kachuck. So that
does kind of wash itself. The Leafs since Chris Tannip
has come back, has been a whole different can of worms.
What else is that the vibe in the dressing room
is changing. The Leafs are right in the hunt or
a playoff spot, just like Florida is right now, and
I'm going to take the team that is really in
better form at this particular moment. As I said, Florida
has lost two of three and the Leafs haven't lost
in regulation in six I got no issue if you
want to take a flyer on an overtime at plus
three ten, three twenty. But I think the value here, guys,
is on the Leafs. They're at home, they've once, they've
you know, they're hotter than Florida, and I don't think Florida.
You know, I wouldn't be Florida if Florida doesn't make
the playoffs, to be honest with you, frankly, I wouldn't
be Florida if the leafstill make the playoffs either, you know,
with teams like Detroit and Ottawa and Montreal looking as
good as they are and not being around last year,
and the Buffalo Sabers on fire. I mean, we're literally
seeing a We're literally seeing a changing of the guard
right now. So yeah, I don't know if either of
these teams will make the playoffs. But for this game only,
I'm taking the dog.
Speaker 3: I hate that go ahead, car, I know I was
just gonna say. And I'll go to Andrew for his
thoughts as well too. The we're into the second half
of the season, you know, Matthew, Chuck's expected back soon,
Barkov's back on the ice, but he's still a long
way from yeah, from from from playing for the team.
But they've got enough guys and enough experience. I think
they make they make a run, get into the playoffs.
And and the East is so tight, sure that one
of these one of these spurts by the Leafs. As
you say, as mentioned points in six straight games. Matthews
is scoring his last four games. The guy's got ten points.
He only had twenty three prior to that, and he's now.
If Matthews is scoring, the Leafs are normally winning. So
if that trend continues, it is a positive for the
Leafs Nilander. Yeah, you're right about Nilander. I think he
got put on the IR on Fridays, so he can't
come back off the IR, I think at the end
of the week. So we'll see what happens with that.
But any thoughts on like a regulation line here, because
these teams don't seem to go to overtime.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, I mean, you know, if you know me,
I actually prefer listen. I don't know about this game specifically,
because I actually am worried about overtime. In this particular game,
Leafs have played, you know, two of their last four
to overtime. Normally, I would always rather play regulation than
the money line. I prefer that bet. So you know,
you know, if I'm betting the Leafs tonight, I've got
I would have no issue splitting the bet into one
on the money line and one regulation. And you're going
to get a hell of a line on regulation, that's
for sure.
Speaker 3: Pres someone says he's flying to yeah watch Fish concert, No,
to watch.
Speaker 4: The Leafs in Philadelphia, and the Philadelphia Stadium is giving out.
You know, obviously the Flyers will public I don't know
they're playing in Fish jerseys or whatever. But I will
tell you this, Karm, in regards to Philadelphia and Fish.
Although the Grateful Dead is different to Fish, they are
the same group of people, same target market, if you will.
I've been to sixty four Grateful Dead shows and twenty
Dead in Company shows. That's eighty four shows altogether. I've
walked through the parking lot on Shakedown Street and every
one of those shows. And Philadelphia is the only Graateful
Dead concert I've ever been to where a full on
brawl broke out.
Speaker 3: So yeah, it's Philadelphia.
Speaker 4: Yeah, a bunch of stone hippies and they were still
able to find a fight. Anyway, I gotta promote and
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It's always a pleasure doing this show. Enjoy Buster and
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Speaker 3: Yeah, Prez all I can say at this point you're
enjoying the fantastic weather there is, and I think everyone
in the chat should echo the same thoughts. You're playing
at Seminal hard Rock in a big tournament.
Speaker 4: Stars.
Speaker 3: Luck to you, yep, best of luck to you. Bring
some of that American money home.
Speaker 4: Thanks, brother, I had no idea how much coffee gets
stuck in the mustache.
Speaker 1: Later everyone, maybe next week, Carmel, let me talk to you, Oh, loucky,
next week.
Speaker 4: Hey, Andrew, it's me, dude, it's me, man, it's me.
Be good brother.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so you'll hit it come all right, Well, I'll
make I'll make up for it.
Speaker 3: I'll let you talk to Buster as much as you
guys want. You guys got to talk about the monch
of Canadians. You can talk about the prices, prices of avocados.
Speaker 1: All right, I'm sipping coffee. It's all good. I'm sipping coffee.
Speaker 3: With that said, I have tea, so I'll sip a tea.
Don Buster's on his third uh modello right now, probably likely,
so let's bring him in before h he starts tipping
the tipping over.
Speaker 1: Buser's behaving himself over there.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, I just gotta you know, maybe this much
of valk in here just to help tack the edge
off when I come.
Speaker 3: On with you guys, you know, well you have to
be on vodka to picked the game that you picked
to break down today, I will let Andrew take over here.
Speaker 1: Well, Buster, I have to ask you because we were
talking with pres about you know, the Leafs and and
even that whole Atlantic Division right now is so competitive,
and you and I are Habs fans obviously that that
road trip was amazing. Think it was like ten of impossible,
fifteen or fourteen or sixteen points. But what's your take
on this Atlantic Division as a whole right now? Before
we jump into that, I gotta ask you. I mean,
the Habs are playing well and they're only gonna get healthier.
I heard Gohoalie might come back here in the next
day or two which is awesome. He's practicing and we'll
get new hook back at some of those guys. But Detroit,
I mean, I keep waiting for this team to fall off.
You know, Buffalo went on that huge Treek prez talking
about Toronto. What's your take on the East and the
Atlantic as a whole.
Speaker 5: Well, oh, Andrew, like you guys have talked about it.
You know what, it's up for grabs all over. Even
a team like even a Columbus who you know, they've
got that jet jet Greaves in net. You never know
when he gets hot. That team has a lot of
and they're not even they're the last team I believe
in the whole division almost, But I tell you it's
gonna be interesting.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 5: We all expect Florida and Toronto to get up in
there in the playoffs. We expect and I've heard you talk, Andrew,
maybe you as well, Carmine about regression with these teams,
Regression with our Montreal Canadians, regression with the Detroit Red Wings.
Maybe even a little uh yeah, there's just a couple
of teams here that I don't know if they do
regress does even jeezus, they look good so so many
times but then they go play a game like right, yes,
they need goldening, but there's a lot of teams need goldtending.
Speaker 2: Edmonton needs goaltending.
Speaker 5: Uh, even though they got Wall and he's been playing well,
you don't want him.
Speaker 2: How if you're a Leaf fan, do.
Speaker 5: You really if you get into the playoffs to start,
do you really want to back your playoffs?
Speaker 2: Stanley Cup hopes on Wall.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, not something.
Speaker 2: We're in a really good shape mom Ball. Yeah. The Bruins, Yeah,
I like, like like what I've seen lately from the Bruins.
But again, they're another team that you never know.
Speaker 5: How about Pittsburgh. I've wrote those guys off. They've killed
me the last week. They're winning games.
Speaker 1: Like I know, crazy again, So I mean.
Speaker 5: It's just it's it's as a hockey fan, it's fantastic.
It's gonna be the last games.
Speaker 1: It's a big chase right now. It's a big chase.
This is the.
Speaker 2: Weird seven teams fight for the playoffs.
Speaker 3: This is the weirdest analysis for the Seattle Boston team
I've ever heard.
Speaker 1: When it comes to the Boston Bruins. It's a weird
situation tonight because we've been seeing this a lot in
the NHL where the team on the road is actually
the more rested team, like Seattle's on the back to back,
but they're the home team typically. You know, in the
old days, it was always the road team that was
playing in the the worst situation. How do you break
this one down? Big road trip for the Bruins, but
they actually have the rest advantage here.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you're right, Andrew. We actually have a couple of teams.
They are playing very decent hockey, as you say, with
the Bruins. Now, I think we talked about it at
the beginning of the year. The only way we I
think all three of us agreed that Boston didn't really
have the club that we thought they would have, and
the only.
Speaker 2: Way they were winning games is with goaltending.
Speaker 5: Well that kind of went to the side and they
were getting beat up there for a while. But they've
put three good games together. They won two of them,
and they did lose an overtime Calnary but still got
a point.
Speaker 2: And Swayman's been playing a lot better, there's no doubt
about that.
Speaker 5: As for Seattle, they've now won seven of their last
eight games, and there's a team that you gotta believe
will regress as well because they were near the bottom
in the West. The problem for the kracket tonight you
kind of mentioned it to Andrew is that they played
last night late in Calgary and now less than twenty
four hours later they have to take on a Boston
team that's playing good hockey and have been waiting for them.
Another hitch for Seattle here. This is their third game
in four nights, coming home always in bad spot, although
this last week it hasn't been.
Speaker 2: It hasn't been all.
Speaker 5: That bad of a spot for teams, but for almost
the whole month of December that was in great situation
spot for the first three weeks. Last week has kind
of went to shit on that. But still it's a bad,
bad spot for Seattle here. And it's also their first
home if you want to look at it. Only a
two two game road trip, but it's still their first home.
And like I said, truthfully, you know, I've never really
felt comfortable with these two teams at all. You know,
they play some good hockey and lately, but I don't
know if they're going to both be there when it
comes to playoffs.
Speaker 2: I don't think Seattle will Boston.
Speaker 5: You never know if they get the goaltending, anything can
happen in that whole division.
Speaker 2: As we have been talking.
Speaker 5: Uh However, I just want to make one more point here,
look at the special teams. Now, Seattle's in a super
bad spot. Now look at their special teams. Boston's power
play is f in the NHL. Seattle's about sixteenth, but
it's in the penalty kill. Seattle has the worst penalty
kill in the NHL. With Boston, Boston's been scoring some
power play goals lately and I think that's helped them
win some games. To me, with all the just just
a real bad situation for Seattle and the way Boston
has been.
Speaker 2: Playing, I really like the Bruins to get the job done. Here.
Speaker 5: What we're gonna do though, we're actually playing the Bruins
on the first period money line, it's about the same
as the Bruins for the full game. And what's been
happening to us lately is that we've been playing those
first period good situations first periods, and our team's been
pushing and then but they've been winning the full game.
So you get a push and you win.
Speaker 2: The full game.
Speaker 5: So we decided it's a new year so we're gonna
start playing some games first period and full game, making
two small wagers on that because just because of what's
happened to us in the last month or so. I
will take a quick look at the total for everybody here.
Since these teams have started playing each other, it's been
five unders, four overs. They haven't played each other this year,
so Boston has gone five and four to the under
their last nine games, and Seattle's gone six to three
and one to the under in their last ten. Now,
because of the situation, and because that total is a
five and a half, it's five and a half over
twenty five, but still these teams, you hear the team's
names and you automatically think under, right, But because of
the spot the three and four games for Seattle, I
really avoid playing unders with those with that situation as well,
because I believe that they don't play as well on defense.
So we're going to pass the total. Anybody that likes
to bet it under I could. I don't blame you,
but I just do bet five and a half thunders.
It might get the six. I thought i'd seen a
six earlier around fifteen minutes ago, so you might if
you can get a six. You might want to bet
it under, but truthfully, I passed the game bet Boston
and that's the way we're going here in Boston. First
period and a little extra play and for the full game.
Speaker 1: There you go.
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Speaker 5: Take care, Okay, thanks a lot, guys, Best luck everyone,
Good luck Buster.
Speaker 1: All right, carm So the way you set it up,
it's been twenty three and you and I haven't given
out a pick yet. You gotta love that for the
show that we are hosting. But the good news is
is that we've got two heavy hitters, the two biggest
games of the night. Boom we saved for the last
of the show. I'm looking forward to seeing if we're
on the same page with this one, Colorado and Tampa Bay.
What do you have for this one? Caen, what do
you think.
Speaker 3: This is who picked this game. I did minus one
seventeen for Colorado, minus one oh four for Tampa. You know,
it is odd in the sense of Tampa Bay being
a dog at home, and I get it. It's Colorado
coming to town and Florida dealt them only I think
what their third regulation loss or something along those lines.
This team just doesn't lose in regulation very often. But
this Tampa team has been playing extremely well.
Speaker 1: I get it.
Speaker 3: They're coming back from the West Coast where they pretty
much disman on Saturday, pretty much dismantled the Sharks early.
But my god, this team has won what seven games
in a row. They swept that three game Western road trip,
beating beating the Ducks, beating the Kings, beating the Sharks.
Obviously it wasn't the toughest because they didn't go to Colorado,
they didn't go to Vegas and even Utah, who's playing
extremely well right now. But this team is scoring goals.
I think they've scored at least four goals in every
one of those wins over the last seven games, which
is unbelievable. They're firing on all cylinders. But you have
the Colorado Avalanche, who have been firing on all cylinders
and held to one of the lowest outputs of the season,
only a goal. This team is playing absolutely phenomenal. I
have to lean the over in this one.
Speaker 1: I get it.
Speaker 3: Sometimes you talk about you get two good teams playing
each other, two Cup contenders playing each other, and you
expect a tight, tight game with the neutral zone clogged.
That's not the way these teams play. These teams are
not going to play any differently than they've played all
season long. I would expect nothing but goals in this one,
and we see some power plays. We're gonna see some
power play goals as well too. Obviously, with Tampa coming
back and as I mentioned, they played on Saturday and
now they've had a couple of days since flying back,
it's our first game back on home ice. We'll find
out very early whether they have the legs or not
in this game, because you know that Colorado's gonna come
at them after that loss in Florida. I have to
think there's goals in this game. At six and a half.
This is one of those ones where if you don't
like the hook, you can wait the opening three four
minutes of the game hope that no goals get scored
in Live bet six and take the over because the
goals I think eventually come in this one Andrews, so
it has to be the over.
Speaker 1: For me, the over, and look, it's gonna be a
good game. I'm excited to watch it. Two teams with
power plays, with superstars all over the ice, carm I
always say this, I'm gonna try and do bet this
team more in the new year. I'm gonna try and
bet on this team more often. And well, I'm immediately
breaking my rule because I gave us this play on
the pre scout last night when I recorded my video
give me the Dog, give me the Tampa Bay Lightning.
This to me is a Tampa Bay number. If it
was a Colorado number, we would see the opening number
be a little bit bigger. And all good things in
life seem to come in pairs. Sometimes it can be
a bad thing as well. And the Avalanche dropped that
game against the Florida Panthers. Carm, you called it the
Florida double. We call it, you know, sometimes the Alberta double.
When you have that back to back or the two
games in a row, whether it be against the Panthers,
whether it be against the Lightning, whether it be the
you know, the two game against the Flames and the Oilers,
and you know, just because you lose one doesn't mean
you're going to win the other. You know, you're not
guaranteed a split. And we know how fantastic this team
has been. But what a run offensively it has been
for the Tampa Bay Lightning. You know, now that they're
healthy again, they've got two three lines that are contributing.
Both power play groups are looking good. And I just
think that right now, the way their goaltending is looking,
the consistency of their game, and what I like to
KARMEI look at they've beat good teams, they've beat bad teams,
they've beat middle of the pack teams. They're beating everybody.
And it's very hard for me to go against Nathan
McKinnon and cal McCarran, those guys. But I do think
this is a spot for the Tampa Bay Lightning. And
I think that everybody's famous last words, right you think
about NFL, Oh my god, I'm really gonna get only
minus three and a half on this team, or I'm
only going to get you know, minus foot right, whenever
you're only going to get this number. It's your famous
last words. So I would actually have respected this number
more from the market if it opened up a tad
bit bigger. But it's not. And I guarantee you there's
a lot of people today, Karen that are sitting there saying,
oh my god, look at this cheap price on the Avalanche.
They've barely lost all year, and I'm gonna go a
little contrarian and take the lightning to get the job done.
So hey, let me take a four to three, five
to two, anything that can help us both win, karm
I'm happy with.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's tough, Andrew, I'm not picking on you. But
when a team has won seven games, a two time
standing up champion team, and they're at home and they're
on a seven game win streak and they're a slight dog,
I don't call that being contrarian. I just call it true.
Hopefully being on the right side of the coin toss.
I'm not saying this is a coin toss, but I
someone mentioned he has had a lot of one goal games,
but they always end up seemingly on the right side
of it. But this is a good measuring stick. You
have to believe for Tampa, to see how they line
up against this team. Maybe Florida gave them a game
plan of how to shut down the Ovs in that game,
because there haven't been many teams that have shut down
the Avs. So we'll see how that goals. It should be,
it should be a good game. I have no action
on it, but I will be watching it. It'll be
on one of my screens because when you get two
teams like this.
Speaker 4: The game.
Speaker 1: You're right, You're right, carm and I respect the chirp
because you're right. But the only thing is I do
feel it's me.
Speaker 3: It's definitely not meant no.
Speaker 1: But I like it though, and you're right. But it's
more so the fact that I think people love to
bet on the Avalanche. But you're right, the Tampa Bay
Landing are on a huge streak, so so maybe I
should feel better about myself. I am following my rule.
I'm betting on a hot team. I'm still betting on
a hot team, which I like to see. Titan Cet
says any thoughts on the Preds game, and then of
course we got to comment just two comments below, which
was going to be the exact thing that I was
going to say dry subtle anytime goals average two points
per game versus the Preds in his career. Yeah, you know,
I'm not a puck line guy, karm. If there's one
puck line on the board, I like, it's that one.
And a little bit of a sneak preview, that's one
play I have in my same game, parlay is Leon's
riesitle to have a pretty good game. Any thoughts for
you on that one? I will.
Speaker 3: I will have my thoughts on the Preds Euler's game
in the same sorry, in the pod. In the pod
play at the end of the show, so you'll understand.
You'll see where I'm coming from in that game. But
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Stars Carolina Hurricanes.
Speaker 2: Again.
Speaker 3: People can say this could be easily be a preview
of the Stanley Cup Finals as well. Dallas plus one twelve,
Carolina minus one thirty six. Man, what is it? Am
I a sucker here, Andrew for thinking that anytime I
see Dallas at plus money, I just want to jump
on them because I like this team.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't blame you like that. This team is so
weird right now, Like I don't know, they're not meeting
their potential, They're not meeting what they're capable of right
now here in this one. But it kind of does
seem like a spot that I want to I'm interested
in Dallas as well here, Carlen, because the Hurricanes had
a couple of tough games in a row. Then on
Sunday they bounced back what was it, three to one
win over the Devils. But the way I would describe
this Hurricanes team right now, they've been busy. Their schedule
has been a little bit quick, a lot going on
for them, but you know, you like the over in
the other game. I like the over in this one.
You know, when you think of the Hurricanes and the Stars,
you don't typically think of teams that are just lighting
it up. But both of their defensive numbers and I
think goal to the numbers were starting to see kind of,
you know, get a little bit worse as things have
gone on. But Brandon Bussy, I think he's getting the
start here. I watched a fantastic interview with him on
the Spit and Chicklets podcast. Seems like a real great guy,
and you love goalies like that that made their way
up and through the ranks. But you know, he he
couldn't really sustain the numbers he had going for him either,
right Like, and I know that's everyone's famous last words,
Oh this guy's not going to keep playing this well.
But you saw it. How many goals did he give
up against Montreal? Like six or seven? You know it's
not going to always happen where you just you know,
have two goals against your whole career. I like the
over here, Carmen, I'm with you. I think Dallas is
probably the side They're playing with a lot of desperation
right now. I think they need more depth scoring though.
Do you feel like that's an issue with this team.
Speaker 3: I do, and I think this is why as the
Eastern Conference sort of starts to separate at some point,
and I believe it will within the next ten to
fifteen games, and possibly likely before the Olympic break, which
comes on what is the Umplique break is on the
I think the fifth of February, and then we don't
see any action until the twenty fifth. We could see
some deals and especially some scorers. I think teams are
going to make position. I think we're gona seeing more
trades before the trade deadline than on deadline days. So
I think there's quite a few teams. And we talk
about goalies. I don't think the goalie market is great
out there, Andrew, but you look at Carolina. Carolina has
always had a very good team. I'm questioning their goaltending.
Now I'm a little worried because Boosie would he was
like eight to No. One home ice with a one
to fifty nine goals against average, and then the Montreal
Canadians come in and scores a six on him. I
think they got an empty edit for the seventh goal.
It is when you allow seventeen goals in three games
like Carolina did. You needed a game like they did
against New Jersey where they won that game three to one.
But you got to worry about it because Freddy Anderson,
we don't know if it's going to be the Freddy
Anderson of old. He did play well, I think in
his last start. It's a scary proposition for Carolina right now.
The Stars, I get it, they're losing games Andrew, but
there I think that there's enough quality on that team
that they will put it together. They've gone through spurts
before in past seasons where they've lost consecutive games. They
get called out, their players get called out, and they
end up playing better. I'm not really worried about the
Dollars Stars. They're still going to be at the end
of the season one of the top three teams in
the Western Conference. But those are my thoughts.
Speaker 1: No, I think that, Look, it's better to go through
it now than in February right or March. You know.
I think it's important every team goes through it a
little bit. You just have to be able to come
out on the right side and play a bit better.
Jamie Benn goes down with injury though, that's tough for them,
but you know, I think overall they're going to be
just fine. That team. The thing is, I've been looking
at a lot more is you know how a lot
of times people say when you look towards analytics, you
want to look towards five on five. And I know
Brian talks a lot about the five on five numbers,
and a lot of times when I'm doing my analysis,
I'll look at five on five. But some teams are
just power play merchants, Like they're so good on the
power play that you have to include. And I think
that if you take away all factors in all situations
and you look simply on five on five, this Dallas
Stars team has been a little bit of a power
play merchant, you know, so they need to also get
more five on five games going. But sometimes you also
got to consider it, like maybe maybe that's just who
they are. Maybe they you know, you look at some
teams like Colorado and Tampa Bay, some of the elite
teams in the league, they rely on power play. Sometimes
that's just part of their of their games. Here Jonathan
Davis says, Carmine and Freddie crapt his pants in his
last game, giving up three third period goals to the
fst of people were going.
Speaker 3: Their pants against the UH against the UH Colorado sorry,
against the Colorado Avalanches. So it's it's something that's going
to happen. Uh. Yeah, thirty saves. He allowed UH four
goals in that one. Obviously the last one was an
empty netter. I still think Andrew, you know, I mean
as far as Anderson coming back, they're going to need
him to play well. So you know, he played played
well for the first two periods and then they just
fell apart. But that's also the team that is in
front of you.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: The problem is is that he has he had him
played in uh something like a two or two and
a half week period, came back, played sporadically, but he
hasn't looked the same, right. And this is what I'm
talking about as far as goaltending goes, and why I'm
a little worried about this Carolina team is is Bushi
going to be their number one goalie going forward? He's
going to have to be because uh Kochetkov, I think
he's gone for the season, he might be gone for
the season or is gone for the season. If Freddie
Anderson doesn't look good, how much confidence do you have
with him in a seven game series against any team
that they play. So that is the worry. I will
talk about a future before we get into the same game,
Parlay Andrew in the pod, and this isn't This isn't
a jerk reaction to last night's game because I've been
watching this team since the trade and the odds on
the Minnesota Wild right now are twenty two to one
to win the Stanley Cup. The most important thing in
the playoffs is other than the fact that you need scoring,
and the addition of Quinn hughses made that team a
lot faster, is the fact that you need not one,
but two good goalies. And the Minnesota Wild have two
very good goalies in Wallstead and Gustasen or gust Of Sin.
They're going to be awfully tough in a seven game
series if it comes down to goaltending, because they have
it right now. If this team makes a couple moves
prior to the trade deadline, almost like a to use
a poker term, pushing your chips all in, they have
a very good shot in a Western conference with some
stacked teams, the right path, we'll get them there. So
twenty two to one seems like too much to pass up.
I'm actually going to release that as a client play
as well too, for like two percent probably, but I'm
betting it, so my money's going on it. The opportunities
are there if this team makes a run to the
conference finals that you can always hedge out. If you
can't hedge out to twenty two to twenty two to
one play, you shouldn't be betting sports.
Speaker 1: I agree, Karam, I agree. And again with that being said,
you're not talking about, you know, hey, how much somebody
is putting down on it. It's just about your bank
roll management. You can put whatever you want on that bet,
but you should have enough in there to be able
to hedg it out as well. I just think that
with that division, you escape that division, you even win
the first round, you're looking pretty good. But that division
is just a hell hole. Like I mean, I know
that sounds kind of messed up to say, but like,
look at the top three teams in that division. One
of those teams is gonna be out after the first round.
That is just ridiculous. You gave ut a future carm
I'm gonna give you a little bit of a rant
because something well, and this has nothing to do with betting,
but something has bothered me in the hockey world over
the last couple of days. And I don't know if
you've seen the whole the Zane perrec stuff in in NHL,
but he's a player that plays for the Calby Flames.
But he went and played for Team Canada at the
World Juniors. He was the captain of the team. And
he said in an interview, but he's having so much
fun with the World Juniors. And he said, you know,
in the NHL sometimes you feel a little bit like
a robot. You feel like they you know, they're telling
you what to say a little bit, or you feel
like you can't give proper answers and fun answers.
Speaker 3: And.
Speaker 1: Long story short, they pretty much you know, Calgary Flames
got wind of it because he said, well, in Calgary,
you know, you got people telling you what to say
and things, and he pretty much called NHL players robots
a little bit, but he didn't call anybody out in particular,
and so the Calgary Flames management got wind of it.
They talked to him, A few of the players talk
to him, and I even saw a long quote from
one of the players, Mackenzie Wieger, and he said, look,
we're not happy with what he said. Nobody here tells
him what to say. But then he even said himself,
I agree. I find hockey players sometimes do talk like
robots a little bit as well. And I just want to, like,
I just want to kind of project the irony in this,
karm Like the irony of this is that he was
saying that they're not allowed to say what they want
to say, and then the Calgary Flames make him issue
an apology for what he said, you know, like it
is the most backwards thing. He says, Well, hockey players
are like robots. We're told what to say much and
we can't have fun and be goofy in the media.
And then Calgari Flames organization makes him pretty much apologize
for what he said, pretty much proving his point that
they are restricted in what they're allowed to say. So
I've been wanting to get that off my chest because
I thought that was ridiculous. I've been tweeting about it.
I think that it's an issue in the NHL that
players are not as outspoken. Sure they try and be
respectful to the media and it's good, but you also
need to have some personality in the media. And I
felt like that was a big loss, big l for
the Calgary Flames because you can't be a team that
you know. I get it. He might have sounded like
he was taking shots at the Flames organization, but I
don't know. I thought it was kind of stupid. Any thoughts, Karmer,
move on.
Speaker 3: My thoughts are this on athletes in general. I don't
take what any athlete says over what any normal person
would say with regards to anything, whether it's a sports related,
union related, world issues related. You know, if there's a
dentist convention, you know why they don't get interviewed and
showing on Sportsnet because they're dentists. But they all they
do is they go to work every day, and that's
what NHL players do, go to work every day. It
is a job for them. After that, all I care
about is what they do on the ice. As long
as long as they're not doing something immorally off the ice,
I could care less about what their thoughts are on
any subject. So that's the way I look at it.
One quick thought, some guy said that the head genius
for gardeners. I've made a lot of money being a gardener, then,
because I love to hedge and and and anytime I
release a big future for that is about to cash
or is in a position to cash, I always update
the write up and tell people that might be uneasy
with their position on how properly to hedge it out.
I picked France. I gave out France and Croatia France
seven to one, Croatia forty to one to meet in
the World Cup final in twenty eighteen in Germany. Who
met in the World Cup Final France and Croatia forty
to one, seven to one. Now you could sit there
and say I'm going to cash one of these, or
you could be the person who says, let me shorten
the middle and guarantee myself a little bit more when
France wins by betting on France a little more on
a hedge against Croatia. This is how you make money.
Real Madrid adam at twenty to one to win Champions League.
They lose the first leg game, they lose the first
game in the quarterfinals, and I took him at thirty
three to one because I knew they would win the
second game at home and go on to win the
Champions League, which they did Chelsea twenty to one. I
always put myself in a position to hedge out at
least your initial investment, and then you're free rolling to
the rest. So if you think it's for gardeners when
you lose your future bets, just remember it is like
betting the Leaves to win the Stanley Cup, even if
they're fifteen to one. One hundred dollars at fifteen to
one is zero because they're not going to win the
Standy Cup.
Speaker 1: But anyways, yeah, I'm the same way. I got my
same game parlay. But it it makes me laugh because
you know, I had a friend in from from out
of town over Christmas and he was telling all of us, what, oh,
my friends back home like they made this, like, you know,
forty five to one same game parlay with NFL. And
I said, how much did he bet on that? And
I said, oh cool, you know how much he's gonna
win on that? Are you know how much he could
possibly can make? Yet nothing, nothing at all because you're
betting a forty five to one, you know, you put
all these crazy bets like together. Sometimes hedging is way
better than cashing out too. You see people on Twitter
all the time say should I cash this out? Should
I cash this out? That's way to go. And you
want to talk about shameless plugs, karm this is not
shameless at all. If there's one thing that I will
always ask Carmine about and I will tail every single
bet Carmine makes, guys is during these soccer tournaments and
his future bets. Karen does very very well with futures.
And when the World Cup comes, you guys better hop
on board with Carmine's future bets. I'm sure he has
packages and stuff you guys can grab right now, Jonathan,
I did see that. Yes, I did see that text exchange.
I'm just saying it was so ironic. The fact that
he got corrected for what he did after they called
him a robot pretty much that that was pretty ironic,
all right, karm Yesterday we went one and one with
the same game parlays, but the one that hit was
the minus one thirty one, so you know, break even.
We've got two same game parlays and both of them
are plus money. Here, you guys can combine them both
and make plus seven fifty one, or you can play
them both individually. We got a plus two forty six
and a plus one forty six. We got the first one,
bradon Point to get at least one point and Nikita
Kucharrov at least three shots on goal. Kucharov has been
fantastic lately, and brain Point does pretty well against top
dogs like the Avalanche, especially at home when they get
the last change. Love that price a plus one forty
six for that one and two picks for the second one.
Leon Dryaz Suttle, as we've been talking about all show long.
In the live chat, he averages on his career two
points per game against the Nashville Predators, whether it be
assists or whether it be goals. I'm looking for a
drive title to have a good one, and yes, guys,
a very rare puck line play for me. Plus two
forty six with this one minus one and a half
goals the Edmonton Oilers, if you want to play them
all guys, plus seven fifty one. Let's catch this ticket,
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that said, guys, we got to get this pod winner tonight.
And I'm going to Edmonton. I mentioned I was gonna
talk about this Edmonton game. I am going to play
the first period over in this game. The first period
over one and a half is minus one forty between
Edmonton and Nashville just a few numbers. Is supported Nashville
on the road the last ten games, they have gone
over the first period total in nine of ten games,
and the Edmonton oiler in ten home games. The last
ten home games they are seven and three to the
over one and a half in the first period. I
like both those numbers, so obviously it fits in this
spot here. We're gonna go over in the first period
minus one forty. Let's get that bank roll up. I
want to be at like eight K before the weekend
gets here. So that is your pod play. One additional
thought for you guys, because I talk about this all
the time. We didn't cover the Buffalo Vancouver game. But
you know it's not a client play, but one of
my theories, or one of the things I like to
play is when a team loses or has a big
winning streak snap like the Buffalo Sabers, I like to
bet against the team again the following game. They are
a juicy price tonight, the Vancouver Canucks tonight, are looking
at it right now plus one thirty eight. That line
has come down. It was at one ninety and one
fifty five, so it has come down. I'm taking the
Vancouver Canucks off of three bad home games, they hit
the road and they have won I think five of
the last six road games, or for the last five
they could win on the road. They just saying can't
seem to win at home. I would take a shot
with the dog tonight in Buffalo with the Vancouver Canucks Andrew, I.
Speaker 1: Like that angle two KRM. I just think that it's
you know, once a run ends, it usually ends for
a little bit. So we'll see what happens with that.
Sorry about late graphic there, KRM. But over one and
a half first period and I will say we might
get people confused because you only have one logo on there.
It confused me the first time. So first period over,
we're not taken. We're not taking the Nashville Predators on
any plays. Now, one first period over and that one.
That will do it for the show. Car Let's wrap
it up because Andy Lang's already knocking on our door.
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