Speaker 1: From the video tech we go.
Speaker 2: What's up, guys, Welcome to Puck Time on wager Talk TV.
It is showtime and it's ready to talk some puck
for the last time in two weeks as the Olympic
pause starts tomorrow for the NHL. Can't wait to watch
the Olympics, but also a bit disappointed we're gonna be
without the NHL action guys. Yesterday, for me, we lose
the five percent play and it's tough because we had
a ton of plays yesterday on the show, the under
in the Habs game, over in the Edmonton and Calgary game, Utah,
A lot of games go our way, but we couldn't
get the puck to go in enough times with the
over six and a half with San Jose and Colorado
scoreless first period. That hurt us the whole time. Hard
to hit it over if you get a scoreless first period,
But you know what, I'd make that play ten times
out of ten. Once again, the expected goal numbers were
like six to two or six to three. So we'll
have to keep moving on, guys, but very very frustrating.
Hopefully you guys were able to make some money with
some of the picks I gave out on the show
and some of the player props. But that will be it, guys,
I will not live in the past on this show.
We've got b L and we've got d B coming
on the show today. That's right, Don Buster and Brian
Leonard of course always here with good friend Carma and Biaca.
What's up, Carl?
Speaker 1: Not much man, looking forward to We got a busy
show today. Buster is going to break down Ottawa in Philadelphia.
It's gonna talk about a five percent play that he
has loaded up as well too. Brian Leonard is going
to do the Florida the Florida Tampa Bay game. That
is a good one. Two teams that have won four
of the Cups over the last what five years, and
they're gonna be battling it out Tampa, just playing absolutely
from hockey. We'll see what Brian likes in that game.
And we have a Baseball slash Hockey special for Brian
as well too. Can you guys ask for it? We
got it for you. Andrew and I will do Pittsburgh
and the Buffalo Elie Kings and the Vegas Golden Knights.
We have a pod play. We'll see if we can
hit another pod play Minnesota Wild get it done yesterday
for us in the pod play, same game parlay for Andrew,
and he's got a different version of it today. So
you guys will hang I have to hang around. And
I asked for a bunch of likes and a bunch
of comments on yesterday's video, and you guys left them there.
I saw them all. So we have at the end
of the show the debut of the Magnificent Seven, where
I am going to predict the winner of all seven
games tonight. We'll see how that goes and whether we
retire the Magnificent Seven or bring it back with that dude.
With that said, listen to and what a tough one
yesterday I watched. I gave so many chances. At one
point Colorado had like thirty shots on goal and just
ask Rov made some really good saves with it two
and one night for my clients. Two best bet winners,
four percent winners. The Edmonton Oiters, who I think are
on my naughty list were a three percent loser. So
overall winning day, and we're gonna get right back at
it today. Three plays up and a soccer game this
afternoon as well too. Plus money you can get him
over on my page at wager Talk. But with that said,
let's let's bring him in double duty. It's like my eyes,
I've barely recovered Andrew from yesterday and and that background
that this guy has, But we have to bring him
in because he is going to cover the Ottawa Senators
and the Philadelphia Flyers. There he is. Luck at the
luck at that beautiful mug on that guy's face. Man,
don Buster, how are you?
Speaker 3: I'm good, Carmine. Well, rough night last night I had
the same game as Andrew did with that over, So
that was a That was my best play last night.
That was a hurder and I didn't get it done
on the show. So I'm hoping that I can make
for that today. But Carline, you would think it's been
like seven years I've had this background for the most part.
You think you'd get used to it by now. If
I don't have it up there, I have people asking me, hey, Buster,
why isn't that Why isn't the Mexican blanket background? So
you know, it's kind of like a staple of the show.
Speaker 1: It ruins all my the rods and cones in my eyes,
as Creamer would say, when the Kenny Rogers rooster light
red lights coming through. Yeah. But anyways, with that, with
that said, Buster, we got a long show today and
I'll have a follow up question for you. So I
want you to get to this Ottawa game right now.
Lines are a little bit all over the place, but
Ottawa looks like they're minus one thirty minus one thirty
five Philadelphia plus one fourteen. The total sits here at
I believe five and a half in this one. How
are you breaking this one down?
Speaker 3: Actually the total sitting that's six Carmine and actually even
six and a half. There's are out there. So but
we'll get to that. Yeah, the two teams here going
opposite directions. Ottawa has looked really good lately. They've won
for their last five and they lost their last game.
But I would argue that they probably deserved a little
bit better fate. I mean, they they Carolina scores late
and Ottawa kind of did take it to Carolina that game.
You know, I thought they I thought they deserved a
better fate. But regardless, they I think tonight though, because
Ryman played that game, I'm pretty sure and now it's
not confirmed. The last time I looked, but al Mark
should be a net for Audawa and he's the two
games he's played, he's played well, two and zero. I
think he's saved I know, forty two out of forty
five or forty out of forty three shots that he's faced.
I think it's a big positive for Ottawa. Now looking
at Philadelphia, they did win their last game against Washington,
but you know, the Capitals were in a really tough
spot there. That was the back to back, third game
in four nights. They actually beat Carolina, I believe on
the on the Saturdays, So that was just a tough
spot for Washington there. But if you look back, even
with that win, Philadelphia are now three and eleven in
their last fourteen starts, their last fourteen games, and they
started the season well. Now both teams are right there
on the outside looking in for playoff spots. But you know,
I just trust Ottawa a little bit more tonight, probably
much more tonight. Part of the reason, I think it's
the eye test. I like the way Ottawa's been playing,
even when they've been losing games, they've been playing well.
With all Mark that might help solve that those defensive
boes a bit, as in he'll make some saves compared
to some of the other guys that were in the net.
Also a little point. These teams have met each other
already twice this season, with Ottawa winning both games. Actually,
if you look back, Ottawa has kind of dominated this
Philadelphia club. They've won eight of their last ten. So
I already gave out Ottawa for my clients here. I
think this will be a team that you want to
be looking at like I'll be, you know, during the
Olympic break Bright note teams where I'll be wanting to
bet moving forward and not. I think Ottawa is one
of them. So I like Ottawa here. Just I know
we got a long show. I'm going to quickly break
down the total for guys that want to play. The total.
Like I said, it's usually it's six right now everywhere
for the most part, but there's both three or four
markets that still have six and a half under thirty.
So if that was if you wanted to play it under,
you might that might be the play to do. Because
it was two to one and three two the last
two times these guys played. Although the last last eight
games both these teams have gone four over four under,
so they can be any type on the over and
under when they play, so truthfully, I've really want no
part of this total, but we will and we already
have played the Ottawa.
Speaker 1: Centers, right. I like the idea of that buster. You know,
you look at the goalies and you know you talked
about it. Obviously, Ersen's injured. For the Flyers, it's going
to be a Vadar. He's he's a confirmed starter and
right now it's just expected that it's going to be
all Mark. But the team seems, Ottawa seems to have
rallied around all Mark since those rumors came out. He
was away on personal leave and they tried. Some guy
came out with an idiotic and I'm not sure it
could have been a Montreal came out with a stupid,
idiotic thing about players sleeping with players wives and what
have you. And he came out, put out a statement
and did an interview which aired during one of Ottawa's games,
and as they picked it up, and as you mentioned,
they played well. I had Carolina in that game. They
played absolutely great hockey in that game. Came out to
the wrong end of that loss to Carolina, but they've
been playing well. They're rallying around the team. And that's
that's what you want when players rally around each other
or one player in in in general, that's the kind
of that's the kind of vibe you want in the
dressing room. Philly doesn't have it right now. Philly is
uh you have talk It. Who is Everything coming out
of talk It's mouth right now is completely negative in Philadelphia?
Speaker 3: And that doesn't help the guys.
Speaker 1: No it it? Obviously it doesn't. Buster. I want to uh,
I want to mention because we can't forget this. Let
me get this up on the board and I'll let
you discuss this. You have a big play going on.
Let me get rid of this one. Sorry, Buster, my Uh.
I usually have Andrew mckinnis in here handling this kind
of stuff. But there it is.
Speaker 3: Oh there you go, Wow, tell us about this. I'm
I'm gonna go really quick with this. We don't want
to have that mug up there for too long. I
don't want to ruin your show here. Yeah, we have
a five percent play lood for tonight in the NHL,
and as it says there, we did really well with
our five percent plays. We did lose our last one,
but over our last twenty two games, sixteen, four and
two with our five percent NHL plays. We really make
sure we pick our spots when we do these, like
we do with all of all our plays, but these
ones we have certain parameters and they made it tonight.
Really like this play again tonight. So it is also
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Speaker 1: That play awesome buster. No better way than to head
into the Olympic break with a five percent winner or
a good winning nights overall, because they're just one play.
But when you have a series of plays, you want
to win them all. I think that's I mean I
talk about all the time. If you have three four
percent plays and one play, but you win the three
four percent here's the five you're kissed off. But you
shouldn't be because you gain seven units of profit for
your clients. It is not a blue pill, but it
is a select game that you like, and I wish
you the best of luck on it. Man.
Speaker 3: Thanks, thanks, carm I appreciate that.
Speaker 1: No problem, man, Go enjoy the weather well, Andrew and
I freeze our asses off here north of the border.
Speaker 2: Buster, let me know about the Olympic stuff. Anything you
want to do with my show or.
Speaker 3: Come on after a week Andrew, once we see some
games and I'll come on and we'll do try to
do a show at a time where guys can watch,
and maybe I'll even do a couple depending on how
things work out. We'll definitely do do one or maybe
two shows. Go and Moon Forward for sure. So we'll
be in touch, brother, and again, best of luck to everybody.
Best of luck with the super Bowl, big weekend, and
have a great day guys.
Speaker 1: See you there, Buster, Andrew. Before we get into bringing
in O'Brien Leonard to do the Florida Tampa Bay game,
our temmy panerin Man, I was kind of hoping he
would go to Boston, not because I thought he was
a perfect fit, because then I could use all these
damn ai graphics and chat GPT to do like a
bread and pasta image or whatever with Pasternak and Preanerian.
But apparently Peneran told the Rangers there's only one team
I am going to play for I will go to
and it was the La Kings. There was rumors that
Seattle was in the running, but Paneren said only one
team and one team only. Is that going to be
become a talking point for other players before the trade
deadline in March?
Speaker 2: I think that, especially for the case like Panera, he
had them. I don't want to say the wrong thing here,
carm but you know he gave them no choice. We'll
put it that way, right. And the thing is is
that they want to make a trade that the player
they got for him. I believe he was the captain
of the windsor Spitfires team in the ohl good player,
and then you get a third round pick. Because the
thing is how much did the Maple Leafs get from
Mitch Marner? Nothing?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Right.
Speaker 2: So that's the thing is that people don't realize is
that people are going to say, oh my god, this
is all that you got for our Temmy Panerin. But
a lot of it is about the money, and a
lot of it is about kind of just getting them
off the books and getting anything you possibly can, because
they've already said to our temmy Panera and hey, we're
not going to sign you back next year. So that's
that's what the problem is too. It makes it a
little more difficult when they pretty much tell a guy, hey,
we're not going to sign you back, because then they
get to kind of pick where they want to go, right,
So it is a bit interesting like that.
Speaker 1: One other thing I want to mention before Brian gets here,
and and how just relax. TJ said he bought a
five percent play. That's good enough. Do you need him
to reaffirm it. I don't think you do. Anyways. Andrew
the stuff going on with Gavin McKenna, I think everyone's
seen on social media. He was arrested by Pennsylvania police
after the big game in and State. Everyone just getting
on this guy getting on this sky. There's two there's
two sides to every story. And this isn't your guilty
until proven innocent. It should be the other way around.
So from people who were there, From people who were there, okay,
not rumors after the fact. From people who were there,
they're stating that a bunch of the players and their
moms and their parents went out after the game and
some idiot who may or may or not have been
drunk was harassing Gavin Uh Gavin McKenna's mom, and they
asked to stop, and this guy kept atticate that aggressively
bugging her. Knocked he knocked him out cold. Good for him.
I would do the exact same thing, which one of
you guys in chat would not do the same thing
if some guy is harassing your mom. So with that said,
there's rumors are true.
Speaker 2: My only comment is you can't beat the crap out
of somebody, but sometimes you gotta. You gotta get humbled
if you're talking smack to somebody. That's it just sucks
because athletes, at the end of the day, is that
you know, it's tough because you're gonna get people saying
stuff to you your whole life. But then again, you
talk about family, it's a bit different. But you know what, really,
since you brought it up, carm I gotta say that
the thing that really really pisses me off about all
of this is that before we really know anything about
the story, everybody all of a sudden becomes a lawyer.
Everybody all of a sudden has a law degree. Everybody,
all of a sudden knows what the future like. If
anybody thinks this guy is doing twenty years in prison,
I have an ocean front property to sell you where
Brian Leonard lives because that is not happening. This guy
is not going to prison like for what happened. I'm sorry,
but anyway, I should he have done what he did.
No if the reasons for it happened or why it happened,
then sometimes you get what's coming to you.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, exactly, we're gonna move on. But yeah, if
anybody wants to know where Brian Leonard lives, I'll have
it in my uh right up for one of my
games on tonight's card. Let's bring them in there.
Speaker 2: You live on a lake, Brian, you live on LA.
You live on a lake in Vegas.
Speaker 1: They do have.
Speaker 4: We're not Minnesota, we don't. We're not the l a Lakers,
remember that when they moved. H Yeah, there's a pond
in Vegas. I will find it when I'm golfing my drives.
I think my drives all end up in the water.
It's a someone needs to invent a floating golf ball.
I would buy that ship like it was like it
was going out of style.
Speaker 1: Man. It just give it to me, man, Brian, how
you doing, man.
Speaker 4: I'm doing well. Thank you very much, and good to
be back on the show. It's been an exciting week
and we'll see how it goes today. I know Buster
has that big play going today, but it's tough. We
talked about that, you know, the last couple of days.
It's tough to hit cap these games. And that's why
I wanted to talk about this game with Florida and
Tampa Bay and and I'll get right into it. You know,
this is the most hated rivalry in the NHL. Takes
place tonight and literally, if you like to watch a slugfest,
this is the place to do it. Because these two teams,
even going back to the preseason, they were getting in
fights all the time. They hate each other, and it's
strange that they scheduled this game the last game before
the Olympics, which gives us a totally different way to
possibly have to catch this game and get some advantage
in it. These two have been involved in very physical contests,
plenty of penalty minutes in those games, and if you
enjoy the traditional NHL play. You want to watch this game.
My wife and I always make it a habit of
watching this contest with the eleptic break on deck. And
it's going to be interesting how this one works out
from the previous meetings. Many of the star players are
prepared for the gold medal and we'll be doing all
that coming up. So I got to ask, is this
going to be the same physical game we normally see
out of out of Florida Tampa Bay. It's extremely important
game for the visitor are currently sixth and twelfth place
in the conference, six points out of the playoffs, with
many teams to surpass. So you know they're going to
come to play in this one. And they better because
the Lightning are on at eighteen and two run and
are now tied for first place with the Hurricanes in
the conference. Conference standings. Florida broke a four game losing
streak with a five to four shutout win last night,
hosting the Bruins and playing the third game in four days,
so back to back over after overtime, third game in
four days. The previous encounters between these two have produced four,
six and seven goals is Both teams are very good
on the penalty kill, and they had a lot of
penalties to kill in those games. But we expent this
game that we played a little bit more wide open.
Obviously Florida needs to win, but we're looking at a game.
Vesselski's obviously in goal for the Lightning and he's a
great goalie, but I expect this to be more of
an open ice game because of that. We've talked about
that the last couple of days. We talked about the game. Yesterday,
the Edmonton game goes you know, it goes off at seven.
A lot of high scoring games for the teams playing
their last games, and I expect that a lot tonight
teams getting involved more offensively. You know, you know how
it is before you before you go on vacation, you
want to get out there and score, build up your stats.
So I like for this game to go over, and
which is a change from basically what the line has
opened it. It'd open six and a half to the under.
I'm seeing, like Chris, one of the biggest dops A
sportsbooks out there, now down to six and you can
get less less than minus one ten on the over.
I expect all of them to continue doing that, which
gives us a nice advantage on the over we need
we only score five here to lose, We've got to
score six or more to get the push or the win.
That's the way I'm looking at this one because the
other games were played totally differently than the way I
think this one's going to play. All the star players
from these two teams will not want to get injured
in this one, so I think the fighting is should
be a little bit less and which opens up the
ice because if you watch the other games, I mean,
these two teams know each other very well. They play
very tight defense on each other, they know the plays.
This is going to be an interesting handicap in this one.
While everybody thinks this going under based on how well
they do and the Ponty kill, I just think this
is going to be a different played game and I'm
gonna take advantage of that. And this is the only
game I'm really interested in on today's card with us
with the trade deadline, we talked about this before with
the NBA hockey coming to an end. Here with the
trade deadline, it's hard to give out plays, so I'm
probably going to pass overall. But this is my free
play today and I wanted to give it out on
the show.
Speaker 2: It's so interesting, Brian, because you know, like Nick Suzuki,
you know, I watch all the Habs games. Yesterday, the
commentators were even saying like, look, this is a guy
that holds an iron man streak. He hasn't missed a
game in his whole career, and as respectfully as they
could say it about him, they could tell he was
giving it a little bit less gas yesterday, staying out
of harm's way, staying out of trouble a little bit.
And you've seen it even, you know, unfortunately the game
that I had the over end for my big play
like and still got two points, but he didn't look
like the dog as they call him for his nickname.
He didn't have that same juice with him. But the
funny thing is, to your point, you can look at
it from a defensive standpoint and you can look at
it from an offensive standpoint. But you just got to
hope there's not going to be a ton of dirtiness
between these two teams. And it's not like it's the
middle of November or it's you know, uh, you know,
even March. It's it's the day before the Olympics for
some of these guys, or the day before you're on
a beach in Mexico. So it is going to be
interesting to see what this day brings, especially for these
two teams. Do they go out with a bang and
do we see it all out brawl again or do
we see a little bit more of relaxed hockey.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they fight. If they fight, we get more penalty shots.
So it's a good, good, good play in the over here,
I believe.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Bright, you know, the one thing like heading into
this one or just some of the the narratives going
into the game and just talking about it, guys not
wanting to get injured before the obviously the Olympic break
out there you know, is a guy gonna defenseman or
a four get in front of a you know, eighty
seven mile per hour slap shot from the point, is
he going to turn his ankle in or what have you.
But it's some of the other stuff, you know, Matthew
to Chuck saying after the Sabers game and the next
day when they asked him about how Flora is playing
and the game against Buffalo, and he comes out with
the with the line which kind of surprised. Me goes,
the Sabers just are playing much better and have better
talent than we have right now, and that's a surprise
that a leader of a team would say this other
team is better than us and they have more talent.
Maybe at at that certain period that is true. But
I think going into the season, if you said who
has more talent and on their team, the Sabers or
the or the two time defending a Cup champion in
Florida Panthers everywhere, if I said it was it was
the Sabers, people would have me committed into an institution
at number one. But I want to talk goalies because
you're talking about totals and it's it looks like it's
not going to be Berebrovski tonight. It's going to be
uh Terrosov in goal for them. He's been Danil's been
pretty good. Other than the five goals that he allowed
against the Saint Louis and that five to four loss,
he allowed a goal in the previous game, a goal
of previous uh in the game before that, two and
then one and three, So he's allowed three or fewer
goals and five of his last six starts, obviously the
last one was a bad one for him and for
the Florida team in uh in general, but he had
won four straight starts while allowing a total of five goals.
Is this just one of those ones where Tampa Bay
is playing extremely well and you just don't want to
get in front of a train?
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, I thought about playing Florida plus the one
and a half here in laying a little bit of juice.
I kind of like that. Also, you gotta think Tampa
Bay's you know, it's to use Marco's line, fat and
sassy or whatever. You know, you Tina two run. They've
they've beaten Florida two out of the three times they've
played today. But the road team, uh, it's done pretty
well in in these these games. But uh yeah, it's
it's hard to handle. Guy. I just think a lot
of people are just looking at what has happened in
the past and expects.
Speaker 1: It to be that way.
Speaker 4: I think, you know, like you said, it's the goal.
We'll see it in in the nice game tonight. They
played yesterday, they'll play again tonight, and uh, yesterday they
got a little bit office. I would expect that game
to go over to It's just an opinion, but they
got eating Hill on the on the goal and he's
not been good, but they got the monkey out their
back yesterday. We'll see how I'll go second of a
back to back. Yeah, these are two very tams. It
wouldn't surprise me if it goes under. But I just
think this is going to be played a little bit different. Brian,
my graphicsky absolutely loves you. I think I made you.
Speaker 1: Like five at least five years younger in this pitcher
that we have up on the screen. We had to
put this together because people asked yesterday and they've asked
about this over the last week or so. Baseball season
is right around the corner. Literally. The Blue Jays play
their first game in sixteen days on the twenty first,
their first spring training game or what have you. You
knock it out of the ballpark. Punintended each and every
baseball season, and the powers that be in the office
put together a great deal the rest of the NHL
season this season, plus the NHL Playoffs right through the
Cup Finals when the Sabers beat the Dallas Stars revenge
for that bred Hall skate in there. Yes, the Sabers
are in the Cup this year and they get it
and the full season of MLB tell us about that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we've had a lot of success in Major League
Baseball and part of the three team show here at
a waiter talk with Tokyo Brand and Trigger. We all
love baseball, and I see Brandon's already putting up his
season wins and that kind of thing already. I will
be working on that until the NHL comes back, because
I don't do anything with the Olympics. I'm not an
expert in the Olympics. You guys are, So I'm going
to use all that time for work on baseball. And
I've already started working on baseball, been doing it for
the last two weeks. Normally I go to spring training.
I don't know if I'm gonna be able to make
it this year, just got so much going on, but
I have been going into last year. I was number
one all time in Major League Baseball on net profit.
I need to go back and check if that is continued.
But the last two years two very good profitable seasons.
Keep in mind, don't pay much attention to win percent
because I give a lot of underdogs. Just sort of
like my hockey if you follow my hockey. But last year,
up thirty six point three four units the year before
forty one point eight two. We take a look at
my five percents during that time, up thirty two point
sixty five units in our five percent baseball players. Baseball
is my bread and butter. Baseball and hockey been very good.
I love these money line sports. I love playing underdogs,
and we are already tuned in for the season. And
if you buy in the season, not only will you
get the Elder Broad discount, but you will get the
entire season and you will get the rest of our
hockey season. And we've done very well in hockey coming
into this year number one overall the entire time. I've
been doing hockey on the site the last eight years,
whatever one way, your talk has been there. So it's
been my two best sports. And you get the rest.
Speaker 1: Of it for free.
Speaker 4: Six ninety eight is the regular promo, but we're going
to give you hockey for free for the rest of
the season. It's a great deal. Well, you can pick
that up right now. I just want to let you know,
like I said, I will not be having any hockey
until the hockey comes back again. But a great time
to buy. Price is going to go up, I believe
at the end of the month. So get on that now,
make sure you lock it in for the baseball season.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, dude, I'm looking forward to it. And to
your point of whether you're number one last year, or
whether you're number two last year, or whether you're number
three last year, I find that it doesn't matter if
you were profitable. That's all that matters. You're competing against
yourself from the previous year and to have a good year.
So when someone says to me, Caren, you're like number
three in soccer, I'm like, Okay, we're making money, but
I'm happy for the guys who are in first and
second because that means that their clients at wager Talker
are also making money.
Speaker 4: Well.
Speaker 1: At the end of the day, I just compete against myself.
Andrew knows that and he does the same as well.
You know what I mean.
Speaker 2: I'm one and oh since I had my last coffee.
Every time I have a coffee at nine, am I
win a bet? You know, like giving you a coffee?
Speaker 4: Damn it?
Speaker 2: I'm five and oh since I had my last walk
with my dog? Are you kidding me? I love these
streaks you see on social media with all the capers.
I'm six and oh when I wear a blue button
up shirt, you guys get ready for tonight, you better go.
Speaker 1: I can't even see is that blue? It's like light
sky blue. Looks like some clouds coming into Narnia. There
probably anything up for today across all sports. Yeah, I
passed in the NBA. I talked about it. There's too
many trains going on. You don't know who's gonna play.
We do really well in it too, such a shame,
but pastor hockey today.
Speaker 4: Our best play is this. I also kind of like
the nights game over I do have a nice basketball play.
We're on the fourteen or six round overall. Yeah, twelve
and five in college basketball, it's been a nice season.
You you talked about the short terms. I don't usually
like to take talking to short terms. But when you
tell you tell somebody you've been number one for seven
or eight years, they don't care. They want to know
what you've done today.
Speaker 3: I've been.
Speaker 4: On the other hand, the people who buy the long
term packages want people that have been really good for
a long time. So try to balance it out a
little bit and keep the short term and the long
term there for you. But yeah, we got a nice
college basketball play today, three percent play, one of our
bigger players that we've had this college basketball season. Yeah,
like I said, fourteen to six overall, twelve and five round.
That's up there now. But I'm really concentrating. If you're
going to get this baseball hockey package, make sure you
do get that before the end of the month.
Speaker 1: All right, best of luck to you guys. Grab I
was gonna say, grab Brian's package, but his wife might
not like me say that. Grab his MLB package. You
get the rest of the NHL season for free. You
won't be disappointed us. We did this last year around
this time. And if you jumped on board and you
finished off with money in your wallets, which is always
a good thing, more money than you started with. Let's
put it that way. So my buddy has a phrase, Brian,
I'll just make this real quick because Andrew and I
have a lot to cover. Still. My buddy's like I
can turn I can go to the casino and turn
a thousand into one hundred and no problem, right, So
he I don't think he's ever won at the casino.
The only machine that ever gives him money is the
ATM and even that one there's a fee maybe more coffee, right, Andrew.
Speaker 2: Exactly only at eight am, though only a certain times.
But Brian, I'm going to throw this back to you.
And I know that your show with Trig and Brandon,
that's your guys unique show, but I'd love to do
some content with you as well a MLB sometime. I
know that that's your guys' three man roster. I get it,
but hey, I want to get in the mix as well.
I think we had thirty people last last year MLB.
I was number nine, you know, you know people. I
want to get some love on the MLB stuff too,
so i'd love to talk to you. I do mostly
first fives stuff like that, team totals and things, but
would love to work with you as well.
Speaker 4: If you're free, I'd love to do that. And speaking
of coffee, we do the show because Brandon is in
Tokyo obviously, and triggers I think in Jersey, so we've
got weird times. So Brandon does it at ten pm
his time. I have to do it at six am
my time, so really at six am, I give you
what's best at that time, but I don't put you
usually put up my place afterwards. So if you think, well,
I'll just watch the show every day and get Brian's
play as well. Unfortunately that doesn't work in the baseball
because by the time I get around to doing my place,
I could have changed my mind and line changes and
all that. So yeah, yeah, that's that's what he got
to buy the buy the package for the season.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm looking forward to all the numerous outfits that
Tokyo brand new we'll be wearing this this year's episode
of episodes of Total Bases. Brian, best of luck tonight
and good luck with the baseball season. If I don't
talk to you before first pitch.
Speaker 4: I appreciate it. Thanks a lot, and you guys have
a great.
Speaker 2: Right Go Canada, Go Canada, Canada.
Speaker 4: I'm already for the way the United States has treated them.
I gotta tell you all right.
Speaker 2: All right, see you brother, And you don't you hear that,
carm I love to hear that, Brian says, he for us.
Speaker 1: Let's jump right into the future Stanley Cup champions the
Buffalo Sabers at home. When I say future, I didn't
say this year. It could happen any year. Andrew the
Sabers minus one third at home, Pittsburgh Penguins plus one
ten total sits here at six and a half. How
are you playing this one? Yeah?
Speaker 2: I like the way you ended that. We have no
clue which year that's going to be. It just might
be coming up soon. I'll tell you what. Anybody that
grabbed Tampa Bay right now is probably pretty good right now.
But yeah, looking at this one here, this is one
of those numbers here where I think the Buffalo has
been relying on goaltending, which I feel crazy for saying that,
Like I never thought in my whole life would I
ever say that Buffalo has been relying on goaltending a
little bit here karm Alex Lyons save percentage nine to
three six, just stealing games in certain metrics. Looking across
the board a couple of last games he's played, he's
been the guy. And I think overall, with the high
danger chances this Pittsburgh team produces, it's going to be
a shooting gallery. You could look towards the save prop
over for Alex Lyon, but I'm going to look towards
goals here for this Pittsburgh Penguins team. I think they
come out on top in this one. And I understand that.
You know, for some teams like your Buffalo Sabers, they
want to go into the break on a good note.
But I think for guys like Sidney Crosby going Olympics,
they want to go to the Olympics on a good note.
So I'm hopeful this Penguins team can have a good
showing here. But based on the stuff that I've looked at,
and Carl, you know, I don't think we've said this
in the six years we've been doing shows together, the
Buffalo Sabers are actually getting some pretty good goaltending. Based
on the numbers that I've looked at, I just don't
know if it'll be enough for today.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I get it, Andrews. You know, as far
as that goes, I think we see some scoring. I
think it's tough to look past a team that is
twenty three four and two their last twenty nine games
dating back to or when they fired their GM. This
team has just been on a phenomenal run. You don't
win twenty three of twenty nine games without being a
team that is playing well together. No injuries to the team.
I just like the way they're playing and recently, you know,
the goaltending has taken a step back, but the scoring
has increased for the Savers. The first period over here,
if you look at the last ten games, Pittsburgh's gone
over the first period total in seven of ten, the
Sabers at homes six of six of ten. The numbers,
the numbers do lean to play on the total, but
I think the first period total. I think we see
some goals early on in this one, and it also
being the final game before the Olympic break, so that's
where I'm looking at in this one. I would go
over one and a half in this game for the
first half total.
Speaker 2: I think that this game probably could be a roll
it out and have some Pond hockey feel to it.
Do you think that there are certain teams more than
others that are going to show up to like what
about the fringe playoff teams, like what Brian was talking
about with Tampa Bay. Like Tampa Bay, if they lose,
they lose tonight, doesn't matter. They're still first place in
the division. But I think for teams like Pittsburgh and
teams like Buffalo, every single win matters for them at
this point. So do you think that the coach is
a little bit tougher on them than maybe you know
a Colorado coach or or you know, you know Tampa
Bay coach would be.
Speaker 1: It's you know, I think the coaching staffs and I
think the leaders of the team expect not so much
the fringe ones, but the ones that are pushing to
make the playoffs, the ones are in playoff spots or
just a few points out. I think they have you
have to stress the importance of these games. We can
easily say, well, it's the final game before the Olympic break.
These teams are just going to play a lot of
open ice hockey. There's gonna be a lot of goals scored.
But I don't think that's not the mentality. That's sort
of the square way of looking at it. Not to
insult anybody, because I will throw out those square plays
everyone said, while let you know why I'm doing it,
But this is this is one in which the points
are important to both of these teams. Important to the
Sabers to keep that phenomenal run going right into the break,
and also for teams like Pittsburgh who are having a
very good season and have gone from projected to be
sellers at the trade deadline to possible buyers at the
trade deadline. So those are the games of importance. It's
kind of like the Ottawa game, you know, important game
for Ottawa making a push. You look at Columbus who
have won what eight of nine or something like that
since that coaching change Andrew and the bump, and they're
still not in the playoff spot. But the importance of
two points is great here because at the end of the season,
when you look at the last two last year, the
year before, the year before that, teams then missed out
on the playoffs by one or two points, the Buffalo
Sabers finishing with ninety one points and missing out on
the playoffs by I think a point. And then regulation
wins which comes into it as well too as a
big time breaker. The Washington Capitals. You look at the
Penguins in the role that they win on last year
where everything everyone thought they were dead in the water,
and then what did they win like seventeen of twenty
two games or something like that, and just an insane
number of games. So I don't think these teams are
taking the night off. I think that's a game of importance.
But I do think that we'll likely see some scoring
in this one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I hope so, I hope we do. But like
I said, this Buffalo team's been so hard to read. Man,
This Buffalo team well and not hard to read with
their success. But even when my websites tell me that, hey,
look there might be some regression coming for this team,
Alex Lyon starts doing cartwheels in the net and standing
on his head for you guys, So we'll see what happens. Unfortunately,
the save props don't typically come out until later on
in the afternoon. A lot off you guys have been
happy with the player props the past two weeks. I
do think you could look towards a save prop and
I'll make a clearcarm. If you don't want the save prop,
people can bet shot props for Pittsburgh. But I do
think there's gonna be some chances, you know, for Pittsburgh
to have some you know, some offensive zone time. I
guess we'll say against this team.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I know, I think so too. Like like
I said, if you look at some of the savers
totals over the last ten to twelve days during this
run and at the early parts of this run, they're
winning a lot of three to one in four to
one games. Now they're winning a lot of like five
to three five two type of games as well too.
For them to go down to Florida and beat the
Florida Panthers, a team that during this run handed the
Sabers a loss I think in Buffalo, and then play
the Tampa Bay Lightning the very next night and only
a goal in the last like thirty seconds of that
game for Tampa to tie it up, or they leave
Florida with four points instead of three. And that was
the Mom's trip for the Savers as well too. It
started with they lost the Mom's Trip against the Montreal
Canadians home, and then they went to Florida. The moms
followed them there and they had a great time in Florida.
It was a little chilly from what I hear, but
nonetheless they picked up three points there. So them going
one to one in one and picking up three of
a possible six points, I think in the grand scheme
of things, is probably a success for the for the Sabers,
and I think it harps well on them, and I
think this is an important game for them as well too.
It's it's Andrew, it's the it's the guys you don't
expect that are contributing. But guys like Rasmus Dallen are scoring.
Tage Thompson is having a fantastic guy but like Samuel's
and a guy who doesn't really score much and the
guy's got like five, six or seven goals, what have you.
It's Alex Tuck who it's a twenty goal mark. Yet again,
they're getting contributions from players. Benson when he's on the ice,
he's playing the role of like the rats, where he
gets in there and just gets under your skin. So
credit credit to Lindsay Roff who has them playing some
very good hockey. And you might want to look at
the Lindy Lindsay I call him Lindsay Lindy kind of
look at the Lindy Rouff Jack Adams Award prices. Andrew.
I'm not sure what he is, but if someone can
find out what the Jack Adams Trophy price is on
Lindy rough to win Coach of the Year because he
has completely flipped this team around.
Speaker 2: I agree, and I got to come in with that
because it's like a lot of these awards, they always
confuse me every year because, like, do you notice how
a lot of the time the Jack Adams a winner
just goes to the team that played the best. Like
if if you had you know, Nathan McKinnon on your team,
or if you have Conor mc david and your team,
then it might be a little bit easier for you
to have a good record. And I'm not saying you
don't deserve it, but you know, a lot of people
think it's Jared Bednar's award to lose. But you know,
if you look at some teams, like look at the
General Manager of the Year award. I can't remember what
that one's called, But to me, the GM of the
Year award doesn't have to go even to a team
that made the playoffs. It could go to a team
that's made the right moves or maybe a team that
got knocked out in the first round. But if you notice,
the GM of the Year award always goes to like
the Vegas GM that traded away all his assets but
then ended up making the Western Conference Final or something
like that. Like and one thing I'll throw to you,
I was listening to a podcast talking about this, should
there be a defensive defenseman Award and Offensive Defenseman Award
because obviously cal mccarr is a great defensive defenseman too.
Same thing for Wrensky, same thing for Quinn Hughes. But
think about like your Victor Headman's of the world and
like those shutdown guys like Shay Weber. Remember like Shaye Weber,
he wasn't necessarily known for all of his offense. He
scored goals, but he was a good old fashioned fashion
shutdown guy. What do you think about that idea there
being a defensive Defenseman of the Year award and Offensive
Defenseman of the Year.
Speaker 1: It's it's kind of like the NFL Andrew they come
up with so many awards at the end, you don't
know if you're coming or going. I kind of like
it the way it is. It's the traditional way. We
just sort of keep it that way. And just a
quick update because while you were talking, I looked at
DK Lindy Ruff is currently plus one ninety five in
the favorite to win the Jack Adams, John Cooper plus
two to fifteen. This is at Draft Kings, and Jared
Bedner is a plus three hundred After that. Dan Mues
at plus eleven hundred for the job that he is
doing right now with the Pittsburgh Penguins. So if the
Sabers make the playoffs, I say, Lindy rough wins wins it,
I'm going to I'm going to play that right after
the show is over. But we got to make sure
this shows. So let's get going, Andrew Elie Kings, Vegas
Golden Knights, the Knights one thirty three Vegas plus sorry,
the Knights one thirty three The Kings plus one O
nine total sits here at six. Where are you going
with this one?
Speaker 2: Well? How bad have the Vegas Golden Knights been, karm Like,
you know, this team overall has not been showing us
anything anything good as of late. Congratulations to them. They
beat the Vancouver Canucks. You know, everybody beats the Vancouver Canucks,
it seems like, and everybody can put up a good
effort against the Vancouver Canucks. They've had a condensed and
compact schedule as of late. Here we'll switch that around
to get that there. And when you look at this game, though, Karen,
the La Kings to me are a team that just
signed a big name are Timmy Panerin. They should be
feeling pretty good about themselves. But they had the Seattle
crack in the second half of back to back situation
and the Seattle crack and were able to make them
look foolish, you know, and they beat them four to two.
And it was the La Kings playing on home ice.
So the question here you really ask yourself is which
team's gonna care more about this game? Which team's gonna
show up more in this game? And this, to me
has the feel of a boring hockey game. This is
a five and a half, and I'm gonna take the
under here. You got a lot of Olympians across, you know,
these rosters here a little bit, and I think this
is going to be the Hey, let's go out there
and roll the puck out and let's let's look forward
to when that final buzzer goes. Because I understand the
premise of what Brian was saying earlier in the show.
There's certain instances where that can help you hit an over,
but there's also certain instances where you know you you
need that urgency and that net crashing and that type
of stuff. You know, yesterday for my five percent, play
like a ton of chances, but not a lot of
guys crashing the net. And you know, trying to score
the those greasy goals and that didn't really help me
out very much. I can't see that happening in this one.
So I've said it to you before. I used to
think that back to backs were automatic overs, but I've
changed my mind a little bit on them. I don't
think this one back to back that necessarily means we
get an over.
Speaker 1: What do you think, yes, and no, it's it's one.
You know me, it's it's one. Andrew where I'm more,
I think I'm more sort of locked into the side
in this one. But I could see goals in this
one because I think the Kings. The Kings, you know,
when they went into Vegas, but that was very early
in the year, and I thought it was a good
spot for the Kings back then, and they went in
and they won that game six to five. In ot
the Kings is just playing much better hockey. Their splits
are much better on the road, and you got the
Vegas Golden It's I got the win yesterday. They needed it,
but it's they played it against a Vancouver team that
they're not just ready for. They weren't just ready for
the Olympic break. They're ready for the season to end,
and I still think they're going to sell off some
pieces this the Vancouver team, and I talked about on
yesterday show that they're probably going to be plus two
hundred a lot of times throughout the year. So you're
gonna have to find the rest of the season. You're
gonna have to find spots and how you bet against them,
because a laying huge viig is usually the way to go.
This is one where like the Kings have won three
the last four games that they've played in Vegas, four
or five if you include a preseason game. I don't
include preseason obviously those games are unimportant, but three the
last four in Vegas, including the one game this season
they're playing well, Paneran's not playing. You know that trade
just got made yesterday, but it's a game in which
it's an important one for the Kings coming off of loss.
Vegas is coming off a win, much needed win for them,
But that Pacific Division is completely up for grabs if
you look at that division. A couple wins by the Kings,
including one tonight, and a couple of losses by the
Vegas Golden Knights, and these teams could end up flip flopping.
The Knights need to put they have a tough second
half schedule or a tough final twenty games of the season.
They need the wins. But I like the Kings in
this spot. I just like the way they play on
the road, and I've been banking on them and taking
client plays on them on the road, not so much
at home, so until they can sort of change that around,
I like the plus one twenty and some money has
come in on the Kings in this in this spot
as well too, so we'll we'll see what happens with
this one. But I'm I'm all for the Kings in
this one.
Speaker 2: Andrew, I don't blame you at all, Carve, I don't
blame you at all. Like this Vegas team hasn't really
done enough. The only thing is I would look at
is like, are they going to be able to build
off a win against the Vancouver Canucks. You know, maybe
after the how shitty they've been, they can get some
you know, some tips from your friend momentum and then
maybe they can move on to today and keep that going.
But other than that, I think the value does stand
with the dog here.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think so as well. Andrew It's one of
those ones where they could play this game in Vegas.
Giving their current form, they could play this game ten
times and I believe that the Kings win it. Five
of them they split. So taking plus money in that
spot makes absolute sense instead of laying viig.
Speaker 2: The Golden Knights of old.
Speaker 1: The Knights I think have a losing record at home.
Do they not? If memory serves me correct, they have
a losing record at home. They're not the Fortress like
they used to be. Uh. I've gone to six or
seven Golden Knights games when I'm in Vegas, and the
Golden Knights have won every single game. There is the problem.
I am not there to fuel this team to win.
So with that said, I might have to put on
my old school La Kings jersey from the Marcel Dion
era with the crown and the purple and the gold
and watch this game late at night.
Speaker 2: This is going to be one of those games that
we're going to find out who like. I think we're
going to know early on who's the most mad team.
And I think you know one thing that we can
really think about, and it's not the whole fat and
sassy thing, but it's the one team is fresh off
of loss, one team's fresh off of win. They're both
playing back to backs. Which team do you think cares
more about tonight?
Speaker 1: Which definitely I believe, and if memory serves me correct
without looking at Andrew, it's not just back to back.
I think this is like the fourth game in sixth
Night for these teams. I could be wrong, but they
you know, I warned the January schedule would be a
crazy one for teams, and you know, bleeding into February
as well too, because teams are are being put in
positions in which they haven't been put in in the
last few seasons, which is playing a lot of back
to backs, a lot of three and four nights, a
lot of four and six nights, or you know, five
and eight. It's it really skews. Some of the score
lines is a skew, some of the spreads, some of
the over under totals. So you have to you have
to take into account those ones. And it's why when
you go back to analytics and you look at expected goals,
that's a better barometer I think of seeing how a
team is performing over that stretch when they might not
be showing the results on the ice. They're still showing
it from an analytics point of view. Andrew. Before we
get to your new feature, which I really like, I
am going to mention I'm going to go through the
pod real quickly, So why don't we fire up the
pod so I can get this one done. So the
pod play we hit yesterday with the Minnesota while they
get the victory, and whether my games go to ot
or not, I don't mind as long as they win.
I am taking the Outawa Senators here minus one twenty five.
The line's gone up a little bit since the overnight
line came out and when I played it, which was
last night, I just think this Autowa team is starting
to rally together. They have that good guy mo on
their bench. Momentum, they're moving forward even off that loss
against Carolina, and you look at the Flyers. The Flyers,
everything coming out of there is just bad mojo right now.
This is a team that's going to be a seller.
This is a team that is ready for the break
and ready for the seasons. And the Flyers aren't making
the playoffs. The Autawa Senators have a shot to make
the playoffs, and I'm going to go with the better
team here minus one twenty. That is your pot.
Speaker 2: Play the Ottawa Senators, Karen, I like them too. I'll
tell you I said this. It's it's really tough because
they're they're playing better hockey as as players, but they
just their goaltending has let them down big time. And
I've said it multiple times on the show. I'm not
the guy to go after goaltending, but this team has
really really hurt themselves. Whether it's been James Reimer or
Almark or Marilinen, whoever it's been, it's been, it's hurt
them quite a bit. So if they can get average
to mediocre goaltending, and we saw yesterday night Leon Dryestle
taking shots at his goalie and taking shots at his coaches,
it's like, hey, look, buddy, Stuart Skinner is doing well
without you guys. Maybe it wasn't the goalie all along.
Maybe it was maybe it was you, guys, Carlo. Before
we get to my player props, I just wanted to
bring something up. We are a hockey show, we're a
sports betting show. You and I love hockey and we
follow the hockey news. I just wanted to mention and
just bring this up here for this the tragedy that
happened in Western Canada. I think it was just absolutely
awful for the Southern Alberta Mustangs. Tragic, tragic motor vehicle accident.
Three young kids, Jj Wright, Cameron Casorso and Caden Fine
Way way way too young to go. And these three
young kids we missed in the hockey community. So a
lot of people are rallying around, uh this team, and
it's it's super sad to see excuse me, Western uh yeah,
Western hockey, Uh, Southern Alberta Mustangs, these three kids. So
I thought it was important to bring that up because
you know, it's it's you know, we all love the
game and and we and you know, we love talking
about the games we're watching and different things, but these
are just three kids that love the game as well.
And uh, you know, you're traveling to a game and
this happens. So we always mentioned the fun stuff, but
I feel like it was important, if we're hockey supporters,
to mention rest in peace to these these three young men.
So wanted to mention that, and you know, we're thinking
about those friends and family for them. I've got player
props here for us today, Carmen, this is what I
decided to do brother, I decided to just have one
player prop for every single game. Here we go, and yeah, man,
we're on a pretty good run. Shout out to Lorenzo.
I love that nickname, Mick Props. I'll take that. I've
been called worse. Mick props. Look eight and one run
with the player props eight and one run. Philip Forrestburg
plus one eighty anytime goal, Ricard Raquel plus one ninety
five anytime goal, Cloe Jeru plus one twenty anytime point
Seth Jarvis plus one fifty five anytime goal against the Rangers.
We've got Matt Barzel plus one hundred even money an
I'm assist against the New Jersey Devils. How about Jake
Genseil will take him for the Tampa Bay Lightning plus
one thirty five against the Panthers, and Ivan barbershev plus
three forty anytime goal against the La King So look
forward to a great one. Shout out to AI. Got
all of them right for me, except for the Jake
Genseil one, thinking that he plays for Carolina still so
that's always tough to see. But other than that, a
nice graphic here, and guys, what do all of these
plays have in common. They are matchup based, and they
are plus money based. We sprinkle on some of these
we can try and make some money. And I like
that one quite a bit. So we've got college hockey,
We've got AHL hockey, and we've got Olympic hockey over
the next two weeks. Don't worry, guys, there's lots of
hockey to go on, and we'll have you covered here
at wager Talk with That's still time to grab my
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Olympic package and the second half of my NHL season.
Look nothing I can do. San Jose Sharks, Colorado Avalanche.
I mean so many chances. Last night, guys, a ton
of you joined me. It pains me, you know. And
I'll tell you what. Guys like my carm I know
you don't want me Ranton, and you know.
Speaker 1: Andy Lane's gonna jump in here pretty soon.
Speaker 2: Nobody wants to hear me Ranton, But I'm just gonna
say this is that you know, we do these plays
every single day, and a lot of you guys that
watch the appreciate and you guys to hop on the
five percent plays. The toughest part about this business is
that nobody cares about the five or six other games
I talked about yesterday. There's a select people that just
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Speaker 1: All right, Andrew, I'm going to blast through these ones
because we got to go or else a dang is
going to kill us. The Magnificent Seven. Here we go.
Buffalo Sabers. They're twenty three, four and two their last
twenty nine games. I'm taking them to win tonight. Carolina
Rangers are two and eight their last ten, and Panarian
has gone their sellers Washington. They were off a bad
spot and they catch the Preds. You back to back,
Ottawa Centers, Sands playing better. I mentioned it earlier. New
Jersey payback for a nine to nothing loss to the
Islanders last time out, Tampa Bay playing well, Panthers struggling,
and a La King's better road record three and one
the last four in Vegas, including a six five win
this year. That is your magnificent seven. Two plays up
for me in the NHL tonight is not ones that
I've just mentioned, so head over there pick those up,
and then of course a soccer play for this afternoon
nice plus money play. Pick up the one day All
Axis or one of the packages that I have up
for myself. Andrew mckinnis, don Buster and Brian Leonard. This
is put time. We gotta go. We've been long. Best
of luck. Guys, hit that like button on your way out.