Speaker 1: Three games in the NHL for tonight on Wednesday, January
twenty eighth, and we are here to break down all
three of them, myself, Andrew McGinnis and Don Buster with me,
just the two of us for today's show. We'll talk
about some props as well toward the end of the
show and any promotional stuff we're looking to get into.
So look forward to a great show, a little back
and forth stuff with Buster.
Speaker 2: We've been there, done that, We've done this before. Buster.
Speaker 1: We'll make sure we have ourselves a very very good time.
Just three games, but you know what, the smaller slates,
there's hidden value sometimes in the smaller slates.
Speaker 2: We'll try and find some winners. How are you, Buster?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm all right, Andrew, howbout yourself? Everything going all right?
Speaker 1: Not too bad, you know, not as cold as I
was the past couple of days, so I won't complain
too much to you about that.
Speaker 2: You know, we hit the three plays yesterday but.
Speaker 1: Lost that Washington Capitol's game, and you know it will
It's funny because depending on who you are, like you
want a pick that you're on to be close obviously
right even if you lose.
Speaker 2: But at the same time. Yesterday. It was one of
those games.
Speaker 1: The second I watched the first ten to fifteen minutes,
I was like, they don't have it tonight. They don't
have it tonight. So sometimes you watch it because at
the end of the day, a loss.
Speaker 3: Is a loss, like no big problem, right, yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean sometimes a loss is just a loss. Like
you you don't get any more points if your team
keeps it closer or not. So uh, you know, it
was one of those nights for me. But look forward
to bouncing back and we did hit the free play
winner on the Jets Plus one oh five talked about
how their coach yesterday, you know it was saying how
embarrassed they were with everything. I'll tell you what yesterday
I always talked, bust your book, keeping it simple, and
I'm just I guess I'm just not listening to my
own advice. Because that Buffalo Toronto over. I feel like
everybody in the world that bets on hockey should have
been on that, like over six and a half Buffalo
to that was just looking at us all in the face.
And this Buffalo team, man, we got to start taking
this team seriously.
Speaker 2: They can't lose games, I tell you Adrew, They're.
Speaker 3: They're really been playing really well and I'm impressed.
Speaker 4: And even even a team like San Jose, they came
right out right away and that was it, like that
first period was over. I said yesterday, you know, just
to tread lightly on that. I did give the winner
on San Jose over. But there's a lot of these
clubs that you know, we've we've been sitting around here saying,
you know, Detroit's going to regress our Canadians are going
to regress San Jose.
Speaker 3: Pittsburgh, Boston, all these teams. And look at Boston. Yes,
so they were in a terrible spot and they came back.
Speaker 4: I know they win an overtime, but still they jumped
on them right away. So again, this month or this
NHL even just with what you see is going on,
it's just a very strange year in the NHL. There's
no doubt about that. So and that's why any team
can can win, like, you know, a game against another team,
and we're gonna talk about one of the games coming
up where that team did just.
Speaker 3: That and they playing crap hockey.
Speaker 4: So anyways, Andrew, there is only three games, as you mentioned,
so we're gonna break down the Rangers, Islanders, Philadelphia and
Columbus and then Colorado and Odawa.
Speaker 3: And as you say, all.
Speaker 4: Three games very interesting for their own reasons. And let's
see if we can maybe pull out some diamonds out
of these out of these three.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I always say like the smaller slates or the
slates people forget about. You know, it's kind of like
on Sunday, Like I vowed to myself this year that
I wouldn't forget about NHL on Sunday just because the
NFL was on. You know, if you're gonna handicap a sport,
you gotta be all in. Doesn't mean you have to
make a play on it every day, but you gotta
be taking a peek at the schedule and you know,
doing some handicapping.
Speaker 2: So we'll try and find something on these three games.
Speaker 1: And yeah, great call by you with that over in
the San Jose game, And honestly San Jose in general,
like that Canucks team is so bad that it's not
getting better anytime soon.
Speaker 2: So again I.
Speaker 1: Wonder I gotta listen to my own advice, keep it simple,
keep it simple, because I feel like people that are
just even casually watching the game right now could just say, Okay,
this team's playing well, this team's playing poorly, we'll go
against Vancouver. But I am shocked that Vancouver is still
getting some respectable prices, so we'll see how much different
they end up getting. We got Copek in the comments
section saying cell brainy with four points. Man oh man,
he loves playing against the Vancouver Canucks. Of course that's
where he's from. Terry's in here talking about our good
guy cole.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 1: He could have scored three goals, he got one taken
away from him. But hey, happy to have all of
you guys in the chat box with us right now.
Speaker 2: I've been to the first I want.
Speaker 4: To mention that with Montreal, we're not going to talk
about for any length of time. We don't want any bad,
bad press on the on the on the comments say
that we talked about for ten to fifteen minutes. But
real quick, that was my customer appreciation play and I
was sick. I mean that game could have easily been
five to four. I mean it was just one of
those games. Domus played fantastic in that too, so but yeah, Montreal.
Speaker 3: Got the win. That's good.
Speaker 4: And again, like we got to talked about just a
few seconds. But there's a lot of these teams San
Jose being one, Montreal that.
Speaker 3: I don't know. Maybe they don't regress this year. Maybe
maybe we don't see the least in the playoffs.
Speaker 4: Maybe we don't see Florida the big equalizer. What I
believe is that this two week Olympic break will probably
set a lot of these so carled better teams in
a better spot.
Speaker 1: Maybe I agree with that, and we're gonna learn a
lot about these teams in the next five six games,
even what they're going to mean going into the break.
Let's start with our very first game here, New York
Rangers and New York Islanders. One thing interesting about this
game here, Buster, is that these same teams are playing
again tomorrow. The only difference is they're going to be
doing a little bit of a change in venue. What
are your thoughts on this one here? Obviously we've seen
the Rangers have better numbers on the road, but at
the end of the day, this team has been so inconsistent.
New York Islanders they got shut out and then they
shut out their opponent.
Speaker 2: So what do you think about this game overall?
Speaker 3: Yeah, it is a little bit of a crazy game.
Speaker 4: And now it looks like the the Islanders have decided
that they're going to play Riddage tonight. They'll play Soroken
tomorrow night. That's now nothing is confirmed the ball since
he came on the show there Andrew, not any of
the goaltenders are confirmed. But it looks that way. And
why I say it looks that way?
Speaker 3: This line.
Speaker 4: Last night it was one fifty for the Islanders. It's
been bent down.
Speaker 3: Now it's one thirty. Now it's Riddich because he's a.
Speaker 4: Net with twenty cents, I don't think so guess what.
The Rangers have already lost twice to this Islanders club,
two nothing in five nothing, and both Stroken and Richch
shut them up, shut them out. I think rich shut
them out the last games. So I mean, I get
that because you change your goalie. But still this Rangers team,
they're a mess. They're just a mess, you know. And
the Islanders, again, what are the Rangers? I think they've won.
They haven't won too many games, that's for sure of late.
And but again I just to me, this is what
we have been talking about. You look at one thirty.
I don't care if ridis in net quick still in
that for the for the Rangers, although I have a
feeling he'll be starting to play.
Speaker 3: A little bit better.
Speaker 4: Maybe Rangers will try to play a little bit more
defensive for him.
Speaker 3: But at the end of the day, you're laying one
thirty with the Islanders at home. I don't know that
seems to me all right.
Speaker 4: But what I actually did, because of the way the
Rangers have struggled and to scoring against the Islanders, and
I know it's on the road, so that's where the Rangers.
Speaker 3: Do play a little bit better. I actually put out
just for my.
Speaker 4: Clients, the Rangers and the Islanders under six and a half.
I just you know, both games this year have already,
like I said, five nothing and two nothing and both
these teams and.
Speaker 3: They they don't even average three goals a game.
Speaker 4: So again, I like the under. I like the Islanders here.
The under has made my card. I don't know about if.
Speaker 1: The Islanders will or not, you know, And looking at
this game, it's like it seems like it seems like
this Islanders team is just a team that I have
more interest in backing overall. Like I don't really want
to back the Rangers. You know, we've got all all games, Yeah,
it all games today, they'll buster have a total of
six and a half. And I'm intrigued with this one
to the under six and a half just because I
think that number one. We have seen the Rangers kind
of play worse defensively at home, So for some weird reason,
they've actually been a better home a better road team
as far as their numbers are concerned. But I was
looking at some of my metrics in last ten games,
these teams are both bottom bottom seven or eight, I
would say in chances created, high danger chances created. Would
you argue that both these teams, I mean, the Islanders
just made that trade, as Chuck was saying in our
live chat there picking up Paullatte from New Jersey. But
would you argue these teams are pretty top heavy, like
especially the New York Rangers, Like if Paneren's not scoring
and if Zabanazette's not scoring, I don't know who else
is doing it, you know, as much as the New
York Islanders. It's kind of a lot of the same
characters as well. So when you think about that stuff,
you think about the under because when you think about
the elites of the elites, like I know this is
an exaggeration, but look at Colorado, like a lot of
people might not know this. You know, brock Nelson, I
think he's got like twenty seven goals on the year.
Like brock Nelson might not even be the fourth best
player on that team. You know, Like that's what depth
really is, right, So you know, I'm a bit confused.
I thought this would honestly be six or I would
even take a look at, you know, maybe a under
one and a half first period. But I'm tempted, especially
by knowing you're playing the same team again the next night.
That does have an impact on my handicapping to look
towards the under here, because even though back in the day,
the second half of back to back with a lot
more automatic to the overs, and I have been betting
some under second half of back to back, I do
have that feeling, Hey, we're bold, we're gonna play this
team again tomorrow. We're gonna go and look at the
tape and figure out what we can learn from. But
let's get off to a good defensive start in this game.
And so with six and a half, I am leaning
towards the under here. But you know, then you look
at the goaltending situation, and it kind of makes you
think Buster, that's the only thing.
Speaker 4: Well exactly because Cook can be any type. The guy
has been terrible lately, but you know he can put
up a good game every once in a while. And again,
like you said, the Islanders aren't really scoring a lot
of goals, and it seems like when they get ahead,
Patrick Wallace said, guess what, we're clamming this stuff down, like, yeah,
we're going to get ahead of a couple of goals.
Speaker 3: And they just did that to Philly the other night.
I believe that they end a shutting them out for
nothing in Philly.
Speaker 4: And so those kind of situations to me, like I say,
when I saw six and a half, I actually even
wrote in my analysis to everybody, I thought it should
have been an automatic six. And I think there are
some markets there that you are getting six. But it
wouldn't have even surprised me just the way these teams
can be so offensively challenged that it was even.
Speaker 3: A five and a half. You might have seen five
and a half.
Speaker 4: A little maybe even if this game is played in December,
but it seems that we are getting even last night
you saw we are getting a lot of goals being
scored this last two to three weeks for whatever reason.
Speaker 3: Again, but Riddick in Net, I don't know if you
have to.
Speaker 4: Worry about I'm like, I say, you shout them out
the last game, so I think out six and a
half under.
Speaker 3: I know you're laying a.
Speaker 4: Lot of juice there, but you want to let lay
the Islanders as one thirty.
Speaker 3: Maybe I kind of like that, but I always worried.
Speaker 4: I think we talked about this before Andrew that it
is the Rangers. They do have a lot of good
talent and they do play better.
Speaker 3: On the road, so that kind of puts me off.
I can see this being a each type of game.
Speaker 4: Maybe three one for the Islanders, but maybe three one
for the Rangers. You know, It's just one of those things.
But when I look at this bang automatic underteam.
Speaker 1: I'm looking for that as well. I'm looking to you
and I are both hockey fans. We love the sport.
We loved betting it, but we love the sport. You
can still have a good competitive hockey game that's low scoring.
You know people, Oh yeah, some of these new age
fans right like, and I mean this with respect, but
so many people just love the six to five games,
And I'll tell you, like, I know this isn't the same,
but you know, in my neck of the woods, I
go to a lot of junior games that really junior
hockey city, and especially with that compared to a lot
of people, I'm sitting around at these games and we've
got one of the bigger arenas in the league.
Speaker 2: Like I would prefer to watch a good.
Speaker 1: Quality game that's three to two then a game that's
like seven to five, Like you just don't want to
be seeing a goal every three and a half four
minutes of the game, you know, Like it's sometimes seeing
some good goaltending is part of quality hockey experience.
Speaker 2: And so one thing's funny.
Speaker 1: You mentioned Riddick, and I think it's interesting because Riddick
is sort of like what Jonathan Quick was for Shasterkin.
Like if we looked at the number of starts that
Riddick would get, it's not that many, right, No, No,
But the funny thing is is that Quick used to
be so good, but then when Shasterkin got injured and
he had to play more, he wasn't as good anymore.
Like it's almost like he was the older he got
the better he did with the more rest he had.
Like some goalies like to play a lot, which makes
total sense in yeah, no, yeah for sure, Like she's an.
Speaker 4: Old goaltender and he but he's you know, single endly
won a couple years ago.
Speaker 3: So but you know he.
Speaker 4: Has it in him. But I think that's exactly what's happened.
He's had to play too much.
Speaker 1: Bottom line, last three games for Jonathan Quick eight thirty
three save percentage and just so many dangerous chances against them.
Speaker 2: So I do towards the Islanders.
Speaker 3: It wouldn't stop the Islanders after all. You know.
Speaker 1: The funny thing is, even though the Rangers have been
so bad at home, this is one of those spots, Buster,
where it wouldn't shock me if both teams won in
this two game set. Wouldn't shock me if sorry, I
have both home teams. Yeah, both home teams got the
job done. So we'll see what ends up happening with
that one. We got oscars saying Viva Mexico. Buster, A
lot of guys that in here commenting, appreciate you guys
all being in here commenting.
Speaker 2: As always, Andrew, I just.
Speaker 3: Want to mention one more quick thing about that Ranger.
You have to.
Speaker 4: Remember the Rangers going to NSG. It was a tough,
tough place to play even up until this year. So
it just that just shocks me, Like, like I say,
teams didn't want to go in there because they were
so good at Massive Square Garden. But yeah, again, a
lot we have Carmine does some kind of make me
make sense.
Speaker 3: He has some kind of like look at the old
man in the clouds.
Speaker 4: Routine that he does. Yeah, like some of this stuff
doesn't make sense when you have that kind of talent.
But anyways, we should get onto the next game, which
is Philadelphia and Columbus.
Speaker 3: What do you think about this.
Speaker 2: Andrew, Let's do it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, one one forty ish ballpark here and you know
one of my favorite a lot a lot of the
chat probably knows exactly where I'm going here buster with
this one. And this is this is this is one
of those ones that I wish I took the other
day on the New York Islanders when they beat Philly,
which is backing a team when they're coming fresh off
a game in which they were shut out, and you know,
this kind of intrigues me a little bit.
Speaker 2: To want to back Philadelphia.
Speaker 1: But more so, the angle that's been really successful over
the past couple of years is taking the first period
over when a team is coming off a shutout. And
I understand that we are seeing right now a six
and a half and it's not gonna be the best
odds by any means. You can take the over one
and a half first period, you can take both teams
to score in the first period. But the premise that
when a team gets shut out, they have that urgency,
they have that that feeling of just being pissed off
and not happy. You know, that really shows up the
next game, and a lot of times we do see
it early in the game. So looking at this team,
they were playing with some swagger. They've had put up
seven goals against the Avalanche. They they had a competitive
game against the Mammoth. But man, oh man, it was
the prototypical first game back after a road trip for
the Philadelphia Flyers.
Speaker 2: It really was buster.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, Golden Knights, they beat them, you know, Mammoth,
close game against them, and then seven to three win
against the app Who would have seen that coming, Like,
you know, they got what was it they got? They
got five of a possible six points on the road
against Utah, Vegas and Colorado, Like you gotta tip your
cap and you gotta respect it. But you know, talk
about keeping it simple stupid. I remember putting a five
percent playout. I think it was the first game after
Columbus fired Dean Everison, and I backed Columbus. They got
the job done, and man oh man, this team has
just rolled. I talked about on my Friday show, and
I was happy to have Parlo on my show. Who's
in the chat right now. We've talked about how it
was kind of a weird line. He's a weird number overall,
how Columbus was such a short underdog despite how well
Tampa's been playing. So we kind ofanked that fishy line
and we lean towards Columbus on the show there, So
you ask yourself, does rest mean russ? Does rest mean
good defense or bad defense? At the end of the day,
Columbus hasn't played since Saturday. It's now Wednesday night. It's
not gonna talk me off it. You know, I think
Philadelphia gets dragged into an offensive game here.
Speaker 2: I do lean towards goals in.
Speaker 1: This one, specifically first period over and if I was
playing Philadelphia. As far as the bounce back angle, I
would only play the first period money line because this
Columbus team is looking pretty damn good right now. And
one thing worth mentioning I'll bring you back in here, buster,
is there's not a lot of practice time for these
teams right now. A lot of podcasters and radio hosts
and NHL executives have talked about this. With this condensed schedule,
there's not been a lot of practice time. So Columbus
got Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday as opportunities to practice together.
That's always a good thing for a team like that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And I.
Speaker 4: Think that's why you see them being a one forty
favorite here because they have been playing some really good hockey.
He've won six on their last seven, and it was
last two at home. Like you had mentioned, they beat
Tampa Bay. Mind you, Tampa Bay was in a shit spot,
no doubt about that, but those bad spots have been
coming through anyways. So and like you say, it was
a fishy line in that game as well for Tampa
only being it's won twenty there but because of the
bad spot, and they also beat Dallas they shut them
out one nothing, so here's a team that can win
eight five and then they can also win one nothing.
Right again, Andrew, you mentioned it was six and a half. Yeah,
six and a half under twenty. So you're getting even money,
which is okay, And I can see how this could
be a game where you might want to take you
over because Philadelphia, it's one of my things that I do.
I either bet the team, which I can't bet Philadelphia here,
even though then.
Speaker 3: They went out on that nice and then, like you.
Speaker 4: Said, and this is what we were talking about a
little earlier, make it make sense because here's Philadelphia who
are two and eight in their last ten games.
Speaker 3: But they win.
Speaker 4: They crushed crushed Colorado in Denver seven three, and then
they beat Vegas as well. So again that and now
with them coming off that kind of just a bad
it was a bad spot and just a bad game
for them.
Speaker 3: You gotta believe that there's going to be some goals here.
Speaker 4: That six and a half does scare me off a
little bit because I'm a big fan of that. Jack Greaves,
So and Columbus have been playing a little bit more
to the under lately. They're actually five and three to
the under their last eight, but Philly are five and
three to the over in their last eight.
Speaker 3: But what's a good thing here? If you do like
the over? These two penalty kills aren't the best now.
Speaker 4: Their power plays aren't all that great either, But you
can overcome on the power play, but when you have
a terrible penalty kill. Philadelphia is twentieth in the NHL
on the penalty kill and Columbus are twenty eighth. And
so when you got a team like Philly that's probably
not too pleased with himself getting shit out the other night,
wanting to score goals, and they get to face a
twenty eighth power penalty kill again, I tend to agree
with you on the over here. I'm not sure if
it's going to make my card. Who knows if it's
six and a half even right now. It comes down
a little bit more only because the way Columbus has
been playing play and again, and basically how Philly has
been playing there again too and eight in the last ten.
I'm with you a bit on the over, but I
think Columbus is probably the better play, even though Philadelphia
did well on their last low road trip.
Speaker 3: I just I can't trust them. I really can't trust Philly.
Speaker 1: Everybody now talking about in the chat box with Mrs
Lickens being confirmed in goal.
Speaker 2: Will get a better price?
Speaker 1: Will we get a better price now on Columbus if
we want to back them?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 1: Does that help our over? If Elvis is in the building,
it automatically helps me.
Speaker 4: It helps you over because like I say, we didn't
have the goaltenders when we came on.
Speaker 3: We both said, hey, you got any informations? We both
know there's no confirmation yet. Now that yeah for sure,
like to me, and.
Speaker 4: Now because of that, Philadelphia, you either bet the Philadelphia team,
which I can't, or over now I'll be now that
he's played confirmed for sure. I was going to pass
on that. I don't know if Columbus was going to
make my card. I don't know if Columbus is going
to make my card now, but I will have a
small play with you brother.
Speaker 3: On the over.
Speaker 1: If Elvis is in the building, then I'm betting the over.
We'll look for maybe a first period, over, full game over,
whatever it might be.
Speaker 2: This could be a good props.
Speaker 1: Game to look at and we'll remind people look that
Philadelphia team. Their first game back at home after the
road trip was the flat spot. Yeah, so you know,
maybe we can give them a little bit of an
excuse for it.
Speaker 3: From Philly to the Columbus, you know, you're not even
in the air in an hour. I bet so.
Speaker 4: Uh. But and then with Columbus being good and rested
and they always seem to come up fast.
Speaker 3: I kind of like your first period over too. I
haven't looked. Is there a lot of juice on that
first period over? Andrew on the one and a half?
Speaker 1: It's not as bad because the total is uh is
to the under or yeah, the six and a half.
Speaker 3: Look, that's not going to be there for a while.
Speaker 4: So if you like that over, go in and get
it now, because it's gonna be six and a half
over twenty probably within the next hour, I would think.
Speaker 2: So it's roughly thirty thirty five for the first period over.
Speaker 3: That's not bad. Yeah for those two teams. Like you say,
with Philly not scoring last game yet, I like that
as well.
Speaker 1: You know, it's funny because I you know how like
certain price ranges you find sometimes better luck with like
last year the plus one oh five plus one ten
with my team totals, man, they were just on fire.
This year, I don't think you want to better first
period over if it's less than one twenty five, like
those minus one tens. There's a reason why they're like that.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: It's like sometimes there's a reason a number is so low, right, Yeah,
and I've seen.
Speaker 4: It because I've been betting this NHL for forty five years,
and I mean you never saw actually at one time
you can eat that first periods and stuff like that, obviously,
but yeah, all they're making you pay if you want
to play a first period over.
Speaker 3: They're making you play sook pay.
Speaker 4: So if you're gonna you know, it's almost like playing
the small favorite. So it's always like Maya's one twenty
five or one thirty. They're making you pay that first
period over. But there is a reason a lot of
times because these teams, no, especially in the NHL, it's
so important to get a lead, to get out front,
depending on how you'd like to play, it's so important.
And that's why you see and you'll see a lot
of times you'll play a game and go geez that
that first period should have went over, and when.
Speaker 3: It ends up happening, yeah, you look at you know,
there are fifteen to fourteen shots on goal and it's
one nothing. You know. Sometimes you know these goaltenders they're
really good too. So but again this sets up I
think quite.
Speaker 4: Nicely Andrew for that first period over, and now it
might be set up pretty well for that full game over.
So now that you say that, if you got I'll
be bet in one of those. I'm not sure, maybe
bet both, but that I like it.
Speaker 1: Now, I'll tell you what helps. Sometimes those power plays.
I had a team total over the other day and
it was a four minute double minor and I got
two goals in the power play. Sometimes a power play
can change a total for you, just like that with
the first period or full game.
Speaker 2: So those are like and like.
Speaker 3: I just bet. I mentioned that these two teams are
terrible on the penalty kill, So that's you always want
to look at that.
Speaker 4: If you've got a couple of teams that are really,
you know, good on the penalty.
Speaker 3: Kill, you might not. And it's a six and a
half something like that, you might you might want to
take a little.
Speaker 4: Caution firstus and go through other variables of the game
before you start betting those kind of things over. But
when you have too bad penalty kill teams, you know
that that that goes in your favor.
Speaker 1: Anyways, So one under and one over sounds like we're
on the same page so far, we're reading the same
game book. We'll see if that works out for the
best of us. Buster look at hl action, you guys
are going to hear a lot of our opinions here today.
Of course, all of our stuff and our favorite bets
are at wagertalk dot com.
Speaker 2: I'm doing a show overnight.
Speaker 1: You can get that overnight in the morning, getting at
least one or two plays plus some player props. That's
called the pre scout. You can get that on the
wager talk YouTube channel. And I have just posted officially
a package for Olympic Men's hockey.
Speaker 2: And it's a really good deal here because.
Speaker 1: We're gonna be doing five percent plays, four percent plays, sides, totals, futures, whatever.
It's fifty nine dollars, guys, fifty nine dollars for one
two week tournament. You know at wager talk here a
regular three four percent play is twenty five bucks. I'm
selling the entire tournament for fifty nine dollars at the
Olympics wt dot Buzz slash Am.
Speaker 2: There's gonna be two weeks.
Speaker 1: Where there's no hockey in the NHL, no NHL going on.
I'm gonna have you covered with Olympic action, and it's
not gonna be just the big teams. We're gonna be betting
on the Italian games, We're gonna betting on the France games.
Speaker 2: We're gonna betting on everything, and so make sure you
guys check it out.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be working with the Hockey News covering this
tournament all the time, every single day, so I'm gonna
be dialed in, gonna have beat recor reporters talking to
me that are in the tournament or at the tournament.
Speaker 2: So fifty nine bucks, guys, pretty good deal.
Speaker 1: I wasn't gonna argue with customer service, but I was
a bit surprised by that price tag. I'll be honest,
fifty nine bucks for two weeks of a full tournament.
So you guys can head over my page and grab
that as well. Bluster, you had a nice winner in
college basketball last night. You're doing a lot more than
just hockey. What's going on with you?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Yeah, college basketball has been pretty pretty good so far.
NHL closure, it's been my probably worst month I've ever
had at the site, and I'll be here ten years
come this May.
Speaker 3: So it's just it's just been one of those things.
Speaker 4: It's just no matter any games that I've been playing,
it's just very, very tough in the NHL. So I've
been trying to be a little bit more low volume
in the NHL. Went one and two last night again,
So yeah, looking forward to this last week. I'm gonna
have a good week, try to get a little bit
back here. But as Carmine always says, it is a marathon,
not a sprint. And looking looking forward to this Olympic
hockey as well, Andrew, and.
Speaker 3: Because I think you're going to see some good games
that I'll be interested to see if you're.
Speaker 4: Laying any minus three and a half goals or four
goals when teams are crushing teams eleven to one and
stuff like that.
Speaker 3: But yeah, yeah, I'm looking forward to the Olympic Hockey,
that's for sure.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we're gonna have some football spreads in a hockey game.
I had to fill out that I had to fill
out this survey. It was pretty funny and one of
the questions was how many goals will Italy score in
the whole tournament, and you know they're in a really
tough pool, right, and you're guaranteed to play a couple
of games. And one guy responded, I was checking. It
was all the people that are doing media stuff with
the Hockey News, and some of them said one, two,
three goals. I said five, And maybe that was a
bit egregious. But if they get one goal a game
and then they want of the one or two games
they pot two goals, then then they're you know, they
get there. But when they're playing some pretty tough teams,
it's gonna be pretty like we're gonna be seeing some
spreads of like you said, two and a half, three
and a half in a hockey game, so you.
Speaker 3: Might even see minus six and stuff like it.
Speaker 4: It's gonna be crazy, but it's always that way in
the Olympics, right, It's always.
Speaker 1: That way, World Juniors Hockey Championships, all that stuff. Uh squash,
Will you be doing any YouTube content over the Olympics.
I will be doing uh YouTube content on my show,
The pre Scout, but puck Time will be on pause
for the break just because the with the schedule with
us going live at eleven am Eastern, it just doesn't
make sense with the schedule of the Olympics. Yeah, we
would have to be recording these at night, which is
the same time that I do my other show, So
it just makes the most sense for us. All right, Buster,
Colorado and Ottawa, let's dive into it. What do you
think here and any other thoughts you wanted to add?
Feel free?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I was just gonna quickly say, one of those fridays,
I'll in the Olympic break there, I'll jump on with
you and we can have a little chat, maybe talk
about what's to come in the NHL and talk a
little bit of the Olympic hockey with you. But I
know you're gonna be really busy. Congrats with that little
spot with the Hockey news.
Speaker 3: That's that's some.
Speaker 2: Good stuff, brother, Thanks man.
Speaker 1: I'm excited and and it's one of those things where
I'm gonna have to have to hide my uh, you know,
my cheering a little bit. Yeah, but we'll try and
stay levelheaded for sure, Okay, uh Yeah.
Speaker 3: This Colorado Ottawa another interesting game.
Speaker 4: But I mean this Colorado team, geez, they look head
over heels better than anybody in the NHL when they
want to play Obviously, we just talked about how Philadelphia
walked into Denver and beat them seven three. But I
mean they are just a full hockey team, very deep,
good goaltending.
Speaker 3: Uh and Ottawa. I mean I like Ottawa, but they
just don't get the results. And that's because of the
goaltending I believe they have. They have a decent club.
Speaker 4: It wouldn't surprise me if they snuck in there for
the eighth spot at the end of you know, once
once we're all said and done here. But this might
be a little tough ask tonight because Ottawa has had
real trouble against Colorado. Nine and one the last ten
games Colorado's beat Odawa, including eight two on January.
Speaker 3: They just hammered him.
Speaker 4: So when you see kind of stuff like that, you know,
but do you want to bet Colorado minus one sixty?
Speaker 3: Is that because Oddawa does play well at home?
Speaker 4: They're they're you know, they've been playing pretty good hockey
at home. So uh again, with that beat down one sixty,
I'm not sure if I want to lay that. I
do think Colorado wins this game. And talking about goals,
it was eight two last time. Gotta lay at six
and a half. I know, all the three games were
six and a half. I do like the over six
and a half here you might even like kind of
looked at the Colorado I'm doing a little bit of you, Andrew.
I looked at the Colorado team total even of it's
three and a half and the juice isn't that much.
I think it's one twenty five or something like that.
So depending on you what you like. And when these
team teams have got together, they have gone over eight of.
Speaker 3: The last nine times.
Speaker 5: And right now Colorado's on a four and two overrun.
Otto are on a five and two overrun. Again, it's
one of those games. Maybe maybe we overthinking. You just
bet Colorado and over.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna bet one of them. I think it'll probably
be the over. Andrew. Now, when I look at this team, I.
Speaker 1: Saw them lose like, what was it three in the
last four or four to the last five at one point.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and nobody.
Speaker 1: Bats an eye because they are that much better than
the rest of the competition. They're that much better in
the rest of the competition. But what's crazy about this
Ottawa team is if you look at like I was
listening to thirty two thoughts the sports and that podcast
yesterday and Buster and they were talking about how it's
it's been a little while since the East has been
so much better than the West, like overall, and if
you look.
Speaker 3: At uh been a long while if you think about it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, if you look at this Ottawa team and you
put them in the West right now, you know they
would still be competing for like a playoff spot, like
they wouldn't really be given up on their season. You
put this Ottawa team in the Atlantic Division with the
goaltending problems that they've had, and you know, you're you're
in pretty tough, right, Like look at the GUS Golden Nights,
even not to mention they've got like the most overtime
loss points in the league, which I hate those overtime
loss one points unless you're on the winning side of it,
of course, and you get a point but.
Speaker 2: Night, Yeah, yeah exactly.
Speaker 1: But but Ottawa, I mean, overall, this team, they're not
as bad what I'm trying to say here, I still
don't think.
Speaker 2: They're as bad as their record indicates.
Speaker 3: Oh, I agree. I agree.
Speaker 4: It's the goaltending. Like I said right from the beginning,
it's goaltending. And talk about that goaltending Andrew. Now, I
don't know if it's been confirmed. The guys in the
chat might have something on this, but it looked like
Almark might play tonight, might be his first game back.
Speaker 3: I know he's been he's been there, so that making
something to look at. Maybe Ottawa plays for them tonight.
Speaker 4: But I think they're just overmatched, right, They're just overmatched.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that's that's really the problem here. That's really
there's this overmatched a little bit here.
Speaker 3: Buster.
Speaker 1: I got my my same game parlay. I'm just gonna
shout it out here today. Having trouble owding it up
with the stream yard today, but I just had a
few plays that I wanted to mention and hold on here.
Just wanted to make sure I get the right numbers. Okay,
So we got three props and then we're gonna just
give out the over because I like the over in
this one here.
Speaker 2: So we got Victor.
Speaker 1: Olivesen, Martin Hs, Tim Stutzla, and over six and a half.
Speaker 3: So we're gonna take ol of Sin to get a point.
We're gonna take Martin just.
Speaker 1: To get an assist, and Tim Stutsla to get an assist.
And then over six and a half goals. And I'll
tell you my new favorite prop is the assist prop
because it's the way to get less juice. Like you
know how Yeah, Like I had Andy Lang on the show,
and you know he gave out past Or not to
get an assist. We all think about Pasta as a
great defense, our great goal scorer, goal scorer, but you know,
he got like three or four assists again, you know,
again in that same matchup against the New York Rangers
the last time out. So we're gonna go with Oliveson
and this is kind of a diamond in the rough too.
Victor Oliveson plays on the top line with Nathan McKinnon
and Nachus.
Speaker 3: They're kind of just like either they're.
Speaker 1: Kind of just plopping him there, like nobody really thinks
about him being a superstar, but he's on the top line.
Speaker 3: I think you could put me or you on the
top line.
Speaker 2: With Nathan McKinnon.
Speaker 1: We get a point every now and then, and this
guy's only minus one or forty, so oliveson point, NAT's
assists dutsless assists and over six and a half.
Speaker 3: The one that I worry a little bit the.
Speaker 2: Most of is that stutsless sists.
Speaker 1: But I do think maybe I could just change that
to a point for him.
Speaker 3: Let's see what the odds are if.
Speaker 1: I change that to a point, it's just yeah, it's
like minus one. It's like really heavy price minus one
seventy five. Maybe I could be worth to play safe
plus three sixty if I make that just a stute
slap point.
Speaker 2: So maybe that's worth it just to look at. So
plus three sixty and.
Speaker 1: Yesterday I think we were we hit all plays by
one on the same game parlay.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you went three out of four fight, I remember, yeah,
and a couple of plays I gave you, guys that
that's why that's why you don't play parlay's, Andrew, because
that's what Vegas was.
Speaker 3: Made on parlays and then slots. Right.
Speaker 4: So again, I know that everybody loves playing parlay's. That's
that's the way way to go. It's a young man's world,
and all the all the guys of that demographic just
love playing parlays. Hey, I was like throwing a parlay myself.
They love the same game. I know you get all
kinds of kudos for the same game, but remember bet
those ones individual too, So take those ones that Andrew
gives you.
Speaker 3: Take it.
Speaker 4: Take a little bit better individual than throw a little
sprinkle on the parlay, because that's all you should be
doing with parlays, is sprinkling me exactly.
Speaker 1: And I do like that Olison one again. All of
sen up there on the top line playing with two studs.
They got McKennon and hs working together, and olives in
there on the left wing.
Speaker 2: Is only minus one thirty five forties.
Speaker 3: Not too bad.
Speaker 1: So Busters rocking rolling with college football. We got a
bunch of stuff going on right now overall at the website.
I believe that seven day deal is still going on.
I guess that's the best fill going any closing thoughts
Buster and will wrap things up.
Speaker 4: Yeah No, just like you said, that's seven day all access.
It looks like we've had it. We'll have it for
about the rest of the month. Great deal. You get
seven days for a price of three sixty nine dollars
with all the five percenters that yells that that comes
with that.
Speaker 3: As well any five percent that are loaded.
Speaker 4: I know I will have one on Saturday because I
have two games that I've got circled for Saturday. There's
a fourteen game NHL Slate Saturday, so I will have
one up on Saturday. I just don't know what line
or what you know, what I'll get for livewise, but
what I think I could probably play two of them,
but of course I will not.
Speaker 3: The other one will be a four percent best bet.
Speaker 4: But yeah, grab that seven day all access and I
think if you, maybe, if even grabbed it tomorrow, then
you can get all our hockey until the Olympic break.
Speaker 3: Yes, I might.
Speaker 4: I might be listening to day maybe you have to
grab it. Yeah, but that's what you might want to
do because it's sixty nine dollars whatever we put out,
and it's good for every capterer on the site, every
caper on the site. So seven day all access. Closing thoughts, Yeah,
best of luck everybody. It's it's a it's a tough card. Again,
there is a I do like that under game under
a little cautious now with Riddick for sure being confirmed,
but I know the way the Omords play hockey, so
if they can get it a little bit of lead,
they might they might win again like that.
Speaker 3: So us look, guys, and thanks for having me Andrew.
Speaker 4: Hopefully we didn't talk about the habs at all, so
we shouldn't have any complaints about that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, geez, they weren't too good to us the last
time we did that.
Speaker 2: The comments section was ruthless towards us.
Speaker 3: They're ruthless towards us.
Speaker 1: That will do it for the show, guys. Thanks for
all the words in the comments section.
Speaker 3: We appreciate you all. We're watching.
Speaker 1: Let's make some money on this three game slate because
we got fifteen games tomorrow and Carmine returns to the
show and you guys will look forward to the play
of the day and all kinds of good stuff from
him as well. Thanks for watching. We'll see you guys
next time right here on puck Time.