Speaker 1: The NHL is back, and that means puck time is back.
Welcome in, guys. Hope you all are having a really,
really good month and enjoying the great hockey we saw
at the Olympics. But we are back and ready to
go with the NHL. Hope you guys enjoyed a little
bit of a break, and hope you're ready to rock
and roll because we've got Carmine, We've got pres we've
got myself, We've got Buster, we've got Brian, We've got
all kinds of cappers locked and loaded ready to go.
And if you missed yesterday, we had a nice show
with Ralph and Brian. Of course, Carmine is always with
me breaking things down as well, how we're going to
approach a unique situation with no NHL hockey for around
two weeks, and how we'll try and make some money
coming out of it. But looking forward to being back
here guys NHL hockey tonight, carm I didn't know if
I'd be able to stomach it because some of these
games are gonna be a little bit different than the
high quality hockey we saw over the last two weeks.
But what last night going over the board doing my work.
I started to get pretty excited for it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, listen, I experienced it all the time with like
European soccer and then the MLS, two different kinds of styles.
But yeah, like I'm excited for the NHL to be back.
Been doing a lot of work during the Olympic break
in order to try and map out some paths to
making money for clients as well too, because we ended
up on a good run seventeen and five for clients
to close out. I wish the l Star break or sorry,
the Olympic break hadn't come, but here we are. Eight
games in action tonight, some players missing. We're going to
mention some of those as we go. We are going
to talk. We're going to give the final word on
the USA and Canada game to the press, and then
he is going to do the Toronto and Tampa Bay
game being played down in Tampa. You and I going
to do Buffalo and New Jersey, and then we're going
to finish it off with the Vegas Golden Knights, LA
Kings the same game parlay with some player props hopefully
from you, and the Pod returns. The Pod went into
the break with a winner on the Ottawa Senators, and
we're going to come out of the break with another winner,
and you guys are gonna have to wait till the
end of the show to get that. But Andrew, you know, listen,
I've been joking around with a lot of my friends,
my American friends, whether it be on the X or
on WhatsApp or what have you, about the whole Canada
US rivalry and what have you. And I've used the
same line with them all the time I go. Listen,
Canada is so grateful to the US in the sense
of that we have two Thanksgivings up here are regular
Thanksgiving and then we have Thanksgiving when you guys have Thanksgiving,
so we get to celebrate it twice. So we gave
you Christmas twice. You have your regular Christmas, and then
we gifted you a gold medal at this year's Olympics.
So enjoy your Christmas present. That's all I'm gonna say
to that, And I'm gonna throw it over to the
press because I know he's got plenty to talk about
as far as the USA and Canada press. Welcome to
the show, brother, thanks for having me.
Speaker 3: I'm really excited to be here, Excited that the NHL
season is amongst us and super happy Canada lost the
gold medal game. Pretty pumped about that. Go America. How
are you.
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 4: Press?
Speaker 1: We're all routine people, and I'll tell you, like, I'm
used to being in this chair every day eleven am Eastern, yeh,
doing this show.
Speaker 4: And you know, I'll be completely frank.
Speaker 1: I don't get up at six am Eastern every day
to you know, usually get my day going. But I
had a pretty good sleep schedule going better than I
probably will now once when the Olympics were going on
to watch all those games. So a little bit different now,
but you mentioned you were happy with the result. I'm
starting to be happy for maybe different reasons, just for
the for the game growing. I think as much as
it sickens me to see them lose, it was probably
good for the game overall. But routine, routine, routine, bit wise,
you know, we talked yesterday with Ralph and Brian. Anything
you want to add before you dive into your handicap
about yeah, just jumping in sure.
Speaker 3: So let me say this about Canada losing. Firstly, I'm
happy with Canada losing everything. Everybody knows where I'm at
right now. I'm completely anti Canada and this particular phase
of my life. With that said, I understand that I
get a lot of grief because I happen to live
in Canada and I do talk about Canadian teams, et cetera,
et cetera. So I am going to throw this at you, guys.
Do you think that we would have known how great
Canada is in hockey if we won?
Speaker 2: If we one, it.
Speaker 3: Would have been hohum. Instead, Canada loses, and America is
in such shock that it's mentioned in the State of
the Union that Trump has an immediate focal. They bring
all these guys to America. All of these guys think
beating Canada was so incredible that they're missing their NHL
games tonight because they are still partying. So I don't
think Canadian hockey has ever gotten a bigger compliment in
its entire life. Then have the ten times population country
below it stop everything and celebrate as if somebody landed
on the moon.
Speaker 2: So, so let me ask you this, because Andrew said,
you know, he was sickened by the fact that Canada lost.
Do I have empathy not towards Angrew Lawrence, or if
I'm just have I just become numb because Canada loses
the game. Canada, sorry, sympathy or whatever. Anyways, let me
get to my point. Canada loses the game, and like
two hours later, I could care less. It's just I
start watching something on TV I don't and I'm just
wondering if is that because of years of being beaten
down as a Buffalo Bills fan, where we make it
to four Super Bowls and I watch them lose four
consecutive Super Bowls. Each year it is supposed to be
the Josh Allen year and it's not the Josh Allen year.
Each year the Sabers are gonna finally make the playoffs
and then they don't make the playoffs. Is it one
of those ones of which I've hitched my chain to
like losing organizations, so losing is just commonplace. It just
doesn't bug me anymore. Yeah?
Speaker 3: Maybe you You know, look, I didn't care after two
hours either. One of the listeners wrote, wouldn't you all
I've had a parade if you had won? I don't
think so, right?
Speaker 2: Who would not?
Speaker 3: They would not have been a parade.
Speaker 2: We didn't have a parade. We didn't have the last time.
The last time we want to know.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 3: No, we would not have had a parade. I would
say we Canada should have a parade now based on
how complimentary America's reaction is to winning. But I'll ask
you another question, carm as a Canadian fan of the
Canadian hockey team, would you have rather been completely and
totally dominated to the point of embarrassment and one on
a fluke? Or would you have rather embarrassed the other
team and totally dominated and lost on a fluke?
Speaker 2: Yeah? No, I get it, and h I would have
rather dominated. Yeah. When the interviewed the USA players at
the end of the game, I think Dylan Larkin or
Larkin was one of them. He said he clearly said,
he goes, he goes. They were the better team, but
we had hellabuck. He played a hell of a game, right, Hey,
goalie would win you games. But with that said, and
then just answer one other thing in the check is
one guy? It is why Probably one of the weakest
arguments or statements I see all the time, which is like,
which is the well, Canada hasn't won a Stanley Cup
in years since nineteen ninety three. Canada pretty much wins
the Cup every year. If you do little research and
you go and look at every team's roster that has
won the Stanley Cup the last five, six, seven years,
what you're gonna see is thirty to forty percent America
Canadians on it. You're gonna see a bunch of Europeans
on it, and then you see about ten percent Americans
on it. So this is what you need to think.
It is like saying to you, guys, the Toronto Raptors,
absolutely a Canadian team, destroyed the US and every single
franchise when meanwhile, eleven of our twelve plays were Americans.
Yeah on the team. Yeah, yeah it is It makes
no sense. Or or the Blue Jays winning the World
Series those back to years. How many players were American
on the team? A bunch of them? How many were Canadian?
Very few? If any car that argument doesn't hold water.
Speaker 3: I I just guys, I gotta run in five minutes.
Let me just say this. I am personally good if
we just combine the two countries and call it America.
Speaker 2: Listen.
Speaker 1: I was I'll say this, KRM if I can, I'm
just gonna I'll just say this. I was doing a
couple of shows yesterday as you guys know, I was
super happy to be doing work with the Hockey News
and it's it's it's almost uh, it's harder to dissect
the game and what happened for Team Canada because of
what Pres said and you said it too, Karm. They
got Goaliad, so it's harder to look at like Pres,
I know you got a ghost, so I'll go.
Speaker 4: To you for your breakdown with leaves and lightning.
Speaker 1: But it's hard to look at when they say when
people ask me what went wrong?
Speaker 4: What could they have done? You know what would have
been different? You know what I mean? And it's hard.
Speaker 1: It's hard to give answers because of out shooting a
team by double and a player missing an empty night.
It's almost like if they lost for to one, I
would almost feel less sad because at least they deserve
to lose.
Speaker 4: Right, No, wrong.
Speaker 3: That is the complete opposite of what I said. We
would rather know if you're if you're a fan of
Team Canada, which I'm not, but if you're a fan
of Team Canada, you would rather they completely and totally dominate.
That's my attitude. But anyway, guys, I got to get
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As for the Leaves playing Tampa Bay Tonight, boys, look,
I don't mean to sound like a homer here. Everybody
knows I share it with the Leaves, but I think
this is a good spot with the Leafs. Tonight has
given the line we're getting plus two hundred, and you know,
it's not like Tampa Bay is coming into this game hot.
They've been sitting there players for two and a half weeks.
John Cooper's not coming into this game thinking how to
beat the Toronto Maple Leafs. He's probably still working on
how to beat the Riddler. And mister Freeze. Yes, I
think he looks exactly like Michael Keaton from Batman.
Speaker 2: There's just too.
Speaker 3: Much value on this Toronto Maple Leaf team. They're coming
into this game. They had won three in a row
entering this game. This is a team that is an
absolute must win mode. Austin Matthews will be playing Tonight
at plus two hundred, Andrew and karm I can't pull
away from that. Man. I just that is a massive number.
Speaker 4: To give you.
Speaker 3: There has not been a Toronto plus two hundred against
Tampa Bay in decades.
Speaker 4: And I think, go ahead. No, I was just gonna say.
Speaker 1: I mean when people we talked yesterday with with Brian
and Ralph Prez about being careful with these big favorites
out of the break, right, we're talking about new routine,
talking about a clean slate a little bit here when
you look a look at a big favorite like that.
The Maple Leafs were actually one of the teams that
in a category of the fewest players at the Olympics.
Speaker 4: So I don't know about you, but that's one aspect
of it.
Speaker 2: I think that's a thing.
Speaker 1: Yes, that's one thing I'm using is we saw it
last year post four Nations, teams that didn't have a
lot of players on those four countries ended up going
on a pretty good run after the four Nations.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So I just want to address this guy. I
love Michael Slumba. The Leafs are losers, just like Team
Canada and just like the pres Michael, I got a run.
But to give you perspective, I'm sitting in my five
thousand square foot home. I got a stunning pool in
the backyard. I drive a BMW M five electric. I
own a house in Whistler, which I'm going to on Saturday.
I co founded wager Talk. Wager Talk is a multi multi, multi,
multi million dollar company. So if you consider end, I
got action last night at fifty six, So if you
consider that a loser, I'll take it all day long. Baby,
Love you guys, Thanks for having me.
Speaker 2: I would have started with I got action last night
and then named off all of the others.
Speaker 3: That's true at fifty six action last night. Michael, Michael,
Michael doesn't michaels. I have a bank account where I
tip people that is more than Michael's net worth. Love
you guys, Oh god, yeah, well dude, you're gonna call
me a loser. I wanted to is what it is.
Speaker 2: I love you people so much. All right, get out
of here. Good luck with your plate tonight.
Speaker 4: All right, let's get rid of them, get rid of me, baby.
Speaker 2: All right, let me get rid of them. Hold on, boom,
there is get that out of here there, all right,
but not forgotten. Oh god, it is like the first
show of the season. You know, there's uh, there's it's
gonna be a little bit rocky road ahead, but we
love you guys in the chat. You know, the pres
He's always going to bring a little different edge to
the show and we do appreciate him for that. Andrew,
they're a team that has like a ten percent chance
of making the playoffs. The Leafs, I just I get it.
It's an attractive price. I just can't take it right.
So that's my rebuttal on this. We need to get
rid of him because he's got a show to do,
the best Betting Show with Joe Vernieri and Art Caesar.
But you know, with that said, Tampa Bay is right
in there top spot right now. They're trying to hold
off Carolina. They have a chance at the number one
record overall because I think they're only five points back
of Colorado. As far as the president showph he goes,
so this has been a phenomenal season and you look
at their goal differential, it's something like in the plus
fifties for this team. They're not just winning games, they're
dominating games. We'll see out of the break. It's always
tough out of the break, but it's I think it's
a little easier out of the break at home as
it as opposed to being on the road. So we'll
see what Tampa does tonight, and we know that it'll
be Vassileski and goal, so the goaltending advantage clearly lies
with Tampa Bay in this one. Speaking of goaltending, Andrew,
let's go to Buffalo in New Jersey for this one.
The Sabers minus one to eight, New Jersey minus one twelve,
the total sits you're at six, and I believe, as
my good friend TJ. Salvador says, can you pronounce the
guy's name properly, I believe it's going to be Uko
Pecca Lucan in goal for the Sabers tonight. Unconfirmed at
the moment, hopefully confirmed shortly, but he is expected. Jake
Allen going for the New Jersey Devils, he is confirmed.
How are you playing this one?
Speaker 1: Well, as I'm gonna do, probably with a lot of
my games here, Karen. Even though I did talk about
it yesterday on the show we did on Puck Time,
not everybody probably was able to catch that. So I'll
just throw it out there that when it comes to
these two teams that are playing tonight, the Buffalo Sabers,
they represented just two players at the Olympics, and the
New Jersey Devils had six players at the Olympics, so
we'll see how that bodes well for those two teams.
One thing that Ralph talked about yesterday Karen, we can
do a little back and forth here is that he said,
you know, the slate is wiped clean right now, and
so think about how red hot this Buffalo Sabers team
was pretty much since twenty twenty six came, you know,
the brand new year. And so if there's one team
in the league that probably did not want a break
to happen, you'd probably say the Buffalo Sabers are one
of those teams, you know, And so that kind of
makes me think, but maybe the rest could be a
good thing. But when you look at it here Jack
Hughes riding that high, you know, nobody knows what's going
on with them.
Speaker 4: A lot of guys you know, on that team that
were a part of it.
Speaker 1: This is one of those situations where you see the
number kind of the way it opened up, the wait
a little bit of movements pretty much towards a pick. Now,
I'm gonna rock with the road team. I'm gonna rock
with the team that had fewer players at the Olympics.
And as much as I think that, you know, some
of my analytics, the sites that I use CARM are
kind of telling me that before the break, Buffalo was
due for some regression. So maybe it could be a
good thing for them to get back to the drawing
board and come in focused. But what do you think,
Is it a bad thing for the Sabers they went
into the break?
Speaker 2: No, I actually think think UH. And something that we
talked about, like, you know, teams are on win streaks
going into the break as opposed to teams on losing streaks.
The Sabers lost three of their last four games going
into UH into the Olympic breaks, So maybe taking they're
running hot for so long, Yeah, that maybe that break
helps it. Bodies rest and UH and a lot of
bodies at that because only Tage Thompson for the gold
medal UH us A team and only Rasmus Dallen for
the Swedish team. We're the ones that played in in
the Olympics, so everyone else on that team is rested.
A lot of guy like Echo Pooka, Pooka Lukenen or
god uh to UH to get to get healthy again
because he was injured as well too. Uh. The Sabers
finished on a five to one run on the road, though,
picking up points in six games, five wins, one OT loss.
So this is a team that we're miserable. At the
beginning of the year, they could not win a game
on the road to save their lives. And now they
have the thing the seventh or eighth best road record
in the Eastern Conference. So they're winning games, whether it's
at home, whether it's away. I'm pretty sure that Jack
Hughes will not be in the lineup tonight for the
New Jersey Devils, so we shall see what happens. But
this price just I think it's begging for people to
want to bet on New Jersey at home. This is
a team that is second from the bottom, not going
to make the playoffs. I think they're just too far
removed at this point. I think the Sabers are the
right play here. So Sabers minus won await and I'm
putting all bias aside. I'm talking about a team that
is well rested and ready for this game, and I
think they get it done.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and when you look at like high dangerous scoring chances,
you definitely can give that edge to the Buffalo Sabers.
So I think the big thing is going to be about,
you know, controlling the game flow out the gate, you know,
seeing if the New Jersey Devils are gonna, you know,
be able to use this break to come out strong,
or if they're going to kind of go back to
the team they were, which is a team that, let's
be honest, KRM, this is a team that was lacking depth.
Speaker 4: And I'll tell you what I had.
Speaker 1: You know, I had a few people I talked to
with with some great conversations over the break that pretty
much told me that this New Jersey Devil's team is
very very close to making a big move. And you know,
I think that there's probably gonna be some moves that
end up taking place this Devil's team.
Speaker 4: The leash is short on them at this point.
Speaker 1: Like I know, carm I've been talking about this a lot,
so I want to get your take on this type
of conversation. But like, we don't really know who the
bad teams are, Like we don't. We haven't known before
this before the Olympic break, and we're about to find
out in the next I would say eight to ten games,
which teams are prepared to be sellers, which teams are
prepared to be buyers and such. So, would you agree
that there's probably going to be some teams you find
yourself betting on consistently or fading consistently moving forward.
Speaker 2: Definitely, there's gonna be some teams, but it's finding how
to bet against them. I'm sold on the fact that
the Vancouver Canucks, or in last place, are going to
finish exactly where they are. They are going to make
no movement whatsoever. And this is a team that needs
a retool, will probably sell off some players and hope
that they somehow win that draft lottery and get McKenna.
It's just it's where it is. The New York Rangers
a team that is miserable right now. In the Rangers.
You look at the Rangers and ironically they have a
five to sixty strength of schedule to close out. They
have twenty five games. They have sixteen at home, nine
on the road. You would think, oh, that's a favorable schedule.
The Rangers at home are absolutely horrific. The what is
the Rangers record at home? Let me see if I
can find it, Andrew, just give me a quick second.
I think at one point they only had about five
wins on home ice. The Rangers have six wins on
home ice in twenty five games, six wins at Madison
Square Gardens in twenty five games. The New York Rangers.
If there's a team that needs a retool, it is
the New York Rangers. They've already sent the bread man.
He's gone to La Panerin, and we could see some
other guys making the move. We know Shosturk and obviously
was you know, the injury didn't help out there, Adam Fox.
Injury didn't help out there, but might as well clean
house get a guy like McKenna. Just it is one
of those ones where if you hold it's kind of
like the Willy Wonka, you're hoping to have the ticket,
the ticket that gets you the golden ticket that gets
you McKenna in the draft this year. If you if
you watch him play, and I get it it's at
the college level or whatever, but if you look at
some of the stuff he is doing at Penn State,
it is absolutely phenomenal with.
Speaker 4: This guy eight points and yeah, eight points in one game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's it's it's amazing. So teams like the Rangers.
I'm going to bet against the teams like Vancouver, But
how do you bet against a team like Vancouver when
they are consistently going to be The teams that are
playing them are going to be minus three, minus three fifty,
minus four hundred, And that's what's going to happen. If
you guys don't think that can happen. It happened a
couple of years ago where in the last three weeks
of the season, Andrew we were seeing some teams were
minus four point fifty, minus five hund undred, like Colorado
playing like a San Jose that had sold off everybody,
and you're like minus five hundred, and it is just
absolutely insane. But those are the prices. How do you
bet them? You can't even take regulation because regulation is
still like minus two eighty, so it is nuts. But
I will find ways to bet those ones and try
and use the home and away splits and the strength
of schedule to our advantage as well too. Back to
backs as well too. You know, I talked about the
LA Kings fifteen home games, eleven on the road. Eight
of their eleven games on the road or against teams
that are not in the playoffs, right now, but they
play six back to backs this in their last twenty
six games. That's tough for a team that now is
missing Fiala as well too. So we shall see.
Speaker 4: But I feel for them, man, Like that is so tough.
Speaker 1: You pick up the breadman before the Olympic break and
then that happens, like you pick up a guy like that.
I mean, I said it to you on the show yesterday.
The LA Kings have been dying to make a move
and they finally make a move. They go and make
a big splash karm and then Kevin Fiala gets injured.
So a little bit tough, A little bit tough, Yeah.
Speaker 4: Stronger than junior.
Speaker 1: I would say that players are older at the college level,
but I would still say that more phenoms are coming
out of junior hockey for now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's I think this is going to be a
good draft year. But uh, you look at like some
of the some of some of the kids coming out,
you know, but Dard is only going to get better
when he gets a supporting cast around him. Look at Macklin,
Celebrini and what he did in the Olympics. You know
what I mean, And I get it. You can make
a case Andrew that Hey, uh, you can put Carma
and Bianco on a line with Connor McDavid and uh
and uh Nate McKinnon and he's going to score a
couple of goals. No, Karen's not going to score a
couple of goals. Karen's going to call fall flat flat
on his ass. But the vision and the and the
maturity that Maclin Celebrini showed in the Olympics can only
make the San Jose Sharks feel better about the future
that they have ahead of them if as long as
the guy stays healthy. So it's which is always one
of the most important things. And since we talked about Fiala, Andrew,
we have to talk about the La Kings and the
Vegas Golden Knights. Now, your first thought here, guys, when
you're looking at this number is the Kings opened up
as a small favorite and then grew to a bigger favorite.
One seven plus one twenty one for the Vegas Golden Knights.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: Five and a half is the total in this one. So,
Bruce Cassidy confirmed the Hannafin and Jack Ico would not
be playing. You confirmed that yesterday. I don't see how
that changes the fact that they start, they have a
five game road trip, and they start that road trip
here on the West coast, and then they're going to
the East coast. These players, those other players are already
on the East Coast. Why not leave them there instead
of having them fly out for one game and then
flying right back with the team to the East coast.
Doesn't make any sense. Give Ico that extra day, Hannafin
that extra day. But Andrew, they have other guys that
are missing from the lineup as well too, And that's
why it's important to keep an eye on these lines
as these come out. But from what I'm looking at
and seeing here, let me see if I can see
some other inactives for them. It says Mark Stone inactive,
Shay Theodore inactive. I'm not sure if that is actually
going to happen, Mitch Marner inactive, Carter Herts. Carter Hert's
been put on the the You gotta love this, Andrew.
Two players I don't know where Andrew is, but two
players right and two players the Vegas Golden Knights have
put on the long term injury reserve list in order
to use a little bit of contract money for Ah.
I can see it happening. They need, they need a spark,
and this is we talked about this on yesterday's show. Vegas,
Vegas Golden Knights. I don't think there are It's as
as weird as it sounds that Pacific because they're four
teams and this is a big one. Now, if if
somehow the Ellie Kings win tonight's game, there are only
six points I believe back or seven points back of
the Vegas Golden Knights. With a couple teams in front
of them, there could be a lot of flip flopping there.
And Vegas has a five game road trip. They go
to the East Coast for four games. They're going to
play I believe, Washington, Pittsburgh Buffalo, and the Detroit Red Wings.
You know that they're going to give a hard time
out of Detroit's game a hard time. The Sabers will
game a hard time. Washington is always Washington. And we'll
see what any status on Sid the kid.
Speaker 1: He's officially ruled out lower body injury for week to
week I believe or something like that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so well that game is gonna be a weird karma.
Speaker 1: Let me ask you, like, so we're seeing a five
and a half shaded towards the under with this one
that we're talking about here, with all the injuries and such,
and we talked with Ralph yesterday about some of these games,
like to expect some goals with the five and a halfs.
Without hearing that, I would have looked at all these
players that are out potentially that you mentioned and think, man,
this could be a two to one game. But when
you look at this five and a half outside of
the break, the players that are rested, and let's be
real here, I still think that both these teams minus Fiala,
minus Marner, minus Stone, there's still talent across the board.
Would you be shocked if after the first period you
and I are texting tonight it's you know, ten o'clock
Eastern time, and we're like, wow, two to one after one,
you know? And who saw this coming with all these
players being out right?
Speaker 2: Uh, do not text me at ten o'clock Eastern time.
I'm going to be asleep by that time. But no, listen,
I do get it. It'll be interesting to see. I'm
just gonna try and watch as many games as I
can tonight and have some multiple screens up just because
I think it is important to see how like how
some of these teams play with the guys who are missing,
because some of them might be missing for a couple
of games. So it gives you an idea of what
to look forward to or what to look towards in
those second games as well. But you know, with with
with that said, listen, Kings have to make a push.
There's nothing left for this team, the Kings. This is
one of those ones where the Kings have, as I mentioned,
fifteen games at home, and they're going to have to
have a good run in those fifteen games. They're probably
going to have to win. I would say if they
want to make the playoffs, they're probably going to have
to win eleven of the fifteen games at home. They're
gonna have to go eleven and four. Then of their
eleven road games, like I said, mentioned eight of them
agreds non playoff teams. They're going to need to pick
up a good bulk of those games as well too.
They're going to have to punch above their weight. And
the thing is with obviously with the Fiala injury, it hurts,
but this is a team that the cap space on
FILA was seven million, eight hundred and seventy five thousand dollars.
So now that goes, they have that cap space. They
have about twenty three million dollars worth of cap space
if they want to go out and find a couple players,
one that could possibly replace a Fiala, a rental player,
and and somebody else to strengthen this team, whether they
do or don't, because they're not dealing from a position
of strength. Now that's the problem, right. People know the
Kings are calling us they need a player, Let's make
them pay, right, So they're they're they're not in a
position of strength. So who knows if the Leafs really
want to tank. Maybe Austin Matthews would love to go
to the West coast.
Speaker 4: Ye had, I'm sure he would. I'm sure you can.
Speaker 2: Hang out with Mitch Marner La to Vegas. Those two
could hook up and go skiing or whatever. I don't know.
Speaker 4: I on the spot here, Karen. Let me put you
on the spot.
Speaker 2: Put me on the spot.
Speaker 1: We didn't talk about this game yet, and I pray
that this is not a client play for you, because
then I'll get in your bad books. Another game with
a five and a half towards the under here Seattle Dallas,
five and a half under is minus one fifteen. So
you know, you've got two games with five and a
half and both of them are shaded towards the under.
And Ralph said to us yesterday about these five and
a halfs, and you and I both know these days
in the NHL, I mean five and a half, you
get one to one after the first, or you get
some goals here and there, like it's you know, getting
to six isn't as hard as it used to be.
If you were to play an over in one of
those two games, which one would you look towards the most?
Speaker 2: I don't think I would take it in this game.
But and that's even with the fact and Drew that, uh,
it is not Jake Oninger onjuring goal tonight because I
think they're talking about like travel issues, so he's not
even going to be the backup in goal likely tonight.
I think they called someone up from their AHL team
one of the goalies, but it looks like it's gonna
be the Smith. And you look at the Smith's numbers
eleven four and five, one shutout, two thirty seven goals
against average and a nine to eleven. Say percentage in
twenty one appearances. The guy has been a very good
backup on this Dallas Stars team. And then Seattle's not
a heavy scoring team. They averaged two point eight eight
goals per game, so that's you know, something to factor
in as well too. Seattle's one of those ones where
you know, you mean, like, if they want to get
into the playoffs, they're gonna have to pay, They're gonna
have to win games on the road, They're gonna have
to win low scoring games. I like Grubauer more as
a goalie. I thought like he I thought he was shot.
I thought he was done, and then he had a
fen phenomenal run. I'm not even sure if that run
is ended for him, but he was on a very
good run, and I was like, really, Groobauer, like this
guy is like I thought he was like an auto
over Andrew. Let me see if if there's an update
on Groubauer.
Speaker 1: WHOA Speaking of updates, I just went on goaliepost dot
com and that website looks good. The website looks completely different.
It looks new, not old anymore.
Speaker 2: So there's no deals happening. You got me, you got me,
got me a little worried.
Speaker 1: There, No, no, sorry, but this website looks fantastic. Carm
Goaliepost dot com guys check it out. This Wow it's
on the app.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 1: I'm not affiliated with this website at all, but it
looks pretty good. But he did play quite a bit
during the Olympic break during the Olympics, so maybe yeah.
Speaker 2: See he did play for for A fifteen Germany. But
eleven and six record to forty three goals again average
nine to sixteen save percentage, not bad at all for
a guy playing for obviously for the Seattle for the
Seattle Krack. And so we'll see how it goes, you know,
as far as Groove hour tonight, but I would lean
to the under there. I think the automatic thing that
people do is and maybe I'll wait to see if
people react to the fact that it's not Jake Ottinger
and goal tonight and this five and a half somehow
becomes a six, and then I just hit the under.
It is not a client player. I have no clients
plays up at the moment. I do have them written
down and I will post them at the It will
go up for clients at the end of the show.
I just didn't want to rush it because give myself
an extra hour to allow for some of the news
reports to come across. I think it's important and for
those of you guys who are hockey clients and minds,
whether you about the Cup to Cup special with the
rest of the NHL season and then the World Cup
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I think more than anything else. After the Olympics, it
is important for me to give you guys a play
knowing that the players I want in the lineup are there. Yeah,
not in the press box, okay, So do not email
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And I'll tell you one thing. I'm doing props. I'm
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I was slowing down with it. I am doing props.
So you guys can expect some props every now and then,
not every day, but I will have some props. I'm
tired of cash and props on the prop segment and
not giving them out to the all access guys. So
if you're with me, you're gonna get my favorite props
each night as well.
Speaker 2: Let me ask you a question, Andrew. When you cash
a prop bet, do they pay you with different money
or is it the same money?
Speaker 1: Yeah, sometimes restaurants don't take the prop. That's yeah, you're right.
Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure the money spends the same way. I
don't get it. It spends the same way, so.
Speaker 4: All the same.
Speaker 2: It is all about It is all about wins. But
with that said, since you talked about props, same game
partly for us and maybe some prop bets to go
along with it.
Speaker 4: Let's do it, KRM.
Speaker 1: I just have these three to come out of the
break and I'll have some more stuff for you guys
moving forward. The reason why I only have these three
for just today, karm is we talked about this yesterday.
I don't really want to mention streaks the players are
on because the streaks go back to you know, two
weeks ago. Those streaks aren't really streaks anymore because they
came to a pause. This guy, Nikita Kutrov over three
and a half shots on goal plus one fifteen. He's
been rested, ready to rock, and you know he's going
to be up for this game against the Maple Leafs.
I think he'll be shooting a time plus one fifteen.
Brandon Hagle one point and Evan Bouchard over two and
a half shots on goal for the Evonton Oilers. The
Ducks are one of the worst teams in shots on
goal allowed in general, but especially against defenseman. Yes, this
is a heavy price for Brandon Hagel, but it's more
so just to get an even better number on that.
Nikita Kucharrov shots prop So Kucharov shots, Hagel point and
Bouchard over two and a half shots on goal plus
three thirty eight, and again, I think I'd probably go
with my best bet on this card would be Bouchard
over two and a half shots on goal. The Oilers
only had a few guys at the Olympics, and as
devastated as McDavid's gonna be, I think the Oilers go
on a pretty good run.
Speaker 4: And Karm, I'll go back to you with this.
Speaker 1: You did tell people I believe that the Ducks are
a fade of yours in the final third of the season.
We'll find out if it starts tonight. But I do
think Evan Bouchard some might have thought he could have
had a shot at the Olympic team. I think he
has a lot of shots tonight against the Anaheim Ducks.
Speaker 2: Wait, what reality are we in? When did I say
the Ducks are a fade. I didn't say the Ducks
are a fade. I said the Ducks are going to
make the playoffs yesterday show you guys. You see what
I have to put up with is.
Speaker 4: Like, you know, we have different opinions. Though that's the problem.
Speaker 2: It's it's like with you know, it's like a dinner.
My wife doesn't listen to me. I mean it's the
same thing. Come on, man, listen. I said they're going
to make the playoffs. The Ducks will know the playoffs,
so yes, they will make the They're in the eighth
spot right now. The Ducks have twenty six games left,
fifteen a home, eleven away, the second easiest strength to
schedule to close out the season, and a ton of
cap space where they could add a couple more players.
They have a very good coach. He's going for a
thousand wins tonight. I believe as well too, Andrews. So
with that said, that total went up to seven. That
total is at seven right now. Yeah, yeah, kind of crazy,
kind of kind of crazy.
Speaker 4: The look on your face, the look on your face like.
Speaker 2: What, I never what?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 1: Anyways, all right, yes, I'm showing seven carm and then
some books it's like minus one fifty for the over
and I think played before the break, right, didn't these
teams play before the break and the score was seven
to four.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the score was seven to four the last time
they played.
Speaker 2: So it went over the totals.
Speaker 1: What you're saying, Yes, one team pretty much did it
all on their own.
Speaker 2: All right. I just wanted to make sure we're on
the same page. Okay, seven and four, so yeah, story
checks out. Seven and four is eleven? All right?
Speaker 4: Not even were under not even closed.
Speaker 2: I didn't know we would be doing math on today's show,
but apparently that's where we are with this one. All right,
it is time for the pod play. We ended the
pod play with a winner before the Olympic break, and
we're coming out of the Olympic break and we are
heading to the West coast Vancouver hosting the Winnipeg Jets.
I am taking the Winnipeg Jets minus one thirty five. No,
is not Hellabuck in goal tonight. It is Eric Comery,
a good goalie for them in this spot. Three to
zero his last three starts, he's only allowed three goals
on seventy five shots. Not only that, well, Hellabuck was injured,
he had to pick up a lot of starts, but
when he was in his normal backup role and wasn't
starting back to back games for them. He's eight and
two on the season, a pretty solid record. This is
what the Jets have. There are eleven points out of
the playoffs by right now.
Speaker 4: There.
Speaker 2: It's going to be tough for the make to make
a playoffs, but the next ten to fourteen days for them,
this is who they play. The Vancouver Canucks and then
the Anaheim Ducks, San Jose, Chicago Blackhawks, Tampa Bay toughest
one of all of those games, Vancouver again, Anaheim again,
New York Rangers. If they go six and two on
that road, not on that road trip over those eight games,
six and two and pick up twelve points, they are
right back in the playoff race. Is still going to
be tough for them, but if you want some hope,
that's the hope. It's got to start in Vancouver tonight,
who are pretty much toast and they are starting the
goalie from Belarus tonight, Nikita Tilopolo. So let's hopefully I
pronounced I didn't butcher his name. We'll see what Vancouver
has tonight. But give me the Winnipeg Jets minus one
thirty five as your pod play.
Speaker 1: I like it, Carme, I like it, and I like
that graphic. Those are those are looking pretty good. So
Winnipeg Jets play of the day the Pod four, Carmine,
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As far as soccer goes, it's a Champions League five
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I've looked at all the reports from the team reporters
right at the morning skates this morning, and I'll get
my plays out for clients Andrew anything to add and
close it out.
Speaker 1: Ready to rock and roll, Karen, Ready to rock. You know,
be careful, guys, manage the bank rolls. But I think
this is the time. You know, if you hear anybody
calling it the second half of the season, it's not
the second half of the season. It's the final third
of the season. We're already a large portion of the
way through the season. So let's buckle up from now
until the end of the season. Karm you and I
are ready to go, so looking forward to it. The
games are back tonight, and I'll tell you I'm looking
forward to watching hockey again at night.
Speaker 4: Because I wasn't watching.
Speaker 1: You know it was Hockey was over by five o'clock
every day during the Olympics, so don't miss carmines play
this afternoon guys, Soccer Action, WT, DAPPA, slash CB. I
got plays at wager Talk and Sports Memo as well.
Wager Talk Today coming up in seven minutes time. Always
a great time on that show, and that will do
it for today's episode. Thanks for watching, guys. We'll see
you tomorrow right here on Punck Time
Speaker 2: Two.