Speaker 1: Happy twenty twenty six guys. Welcome to Puck Time on
wager Talk TV. Andrew Carmine and Don Buster with you
today for all of your best bets in the NHL,
And as carm said to you guys earlier in the week,
we do have a bit of a frozen frenzy going
on today as well, games all day long, similar to yesterday.
I hope you guys had a fun night last night
ringing in the New year. Hope you guys all made
some money in the NHL last night as well. But
you know what, KRM, there's no time to rest up,
there's no time to take it easy. That we got
to find some winners and we can do that with
this board here today, a good handful of games to
break down.
Speaker 2: Look forward to doing it with you. Karm How are you?
How is you to night last night?
Speaker 3: Can you hear me?
Speaker 2: Are in good? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Happy New Year? Everyone? Today was good early dinner at
and you guys have a keg out east, Yes, sirs?
Where we went the keg last night. It was supposed
to be with my wife in the couple buddies. One
of them couldn't make it out, so it was three
of us we ate up a storm, but it was
like a six thirty meal, So I was home by
like and they want you out of there in two hours.
So I was home by like eight thirty and watching
some NHL while just absolutely chilling. So it was a
good night overall, a good day overall. I think across
all sports. A couple of College of Football winners NHL
Bad Beats member Teddy. Teddy used to do the bad Beats,
Bad Bets, bad for the books or whatever the BBB.
That's how I felt for me yesterday. Nashville, Nashville. Come on, man,
it's like the Nashville game. I have over six and
they score five goals in the first period, three two.
You think you're good. And they ended up on six goals,
a power play and four minutes with an empty net
and I couldn't get the goal, but Tampa Bay the
pod play made up for it. Three to three goes
to ot we get the win and the over six
and a half. That was pretty much it. I was
a little surprised by a couple of the results last
night as well too, but we're right back at it.
First game, right one o'clock, I think Ottawa and Washington
We're not going to cover that game just because it
is so early. We're gonna do Detroit and Pittsburgh.
Speaker 2: You and I.
Speaker 3: Buster is coming into because he's a huge Leafs fan,
so he's gonna do Winnipeg and the Toronto Maple Leafs.
You and I will break down Tampa Bay and the
LA Kings and no same game party today, but we
do have a pod and and then that's it. We're
going to send you off to watch some college football,
some NHL and just have a and recover from New
Year's Eve. How does that sound?
Speaker 2: Calm? That sounds great to me.
Speaker 1: And I got a handful of games I picked out
for today in the NHL, so I'm looking forward to it.
Speaker 2: Six and one run now going into the new year,
so that's kind of nice.
Speaker 1: Not a huge, huge run, but six and one, we'll
take it. We actually had the capitals yesterday and sixth
spot I believe they put up. We had the team
total over three and a half, so we'll see how
they do. I want to ask you before we dive incarm,
are you taking any type of angle with New Year's
Eve celebrations, like should we be backing older teams or
younger teams or they're they're pro athletes. They shouldn't be
worried about it.
Speaker 3: No, I don't, uh. These guys are professionals. Nobody was
out partying. I joked about it with Nashville yesterday in
Vegas the early game. Roll the dice and then get
out there and party. But no, I was these guys
are going to be out in the ice. It's their
profession be out there partying. They'll party when the season
is over. When where do they end up in the
NHL and they get eliminated? They head down to Kane Kuhn.
Is that the story? Kind of like baseball? We're heading
to Kane Kuhn. I don't think so. You know, you
look at like Tampa Bay. Tampa Bay played last night
during the second of back to back, But they essentially
they hop on a bus andrew and go from Anaheim
to la It is a very very, very very short
trip for them. And it's not like when you play
in beer leagues where you gotta carry your own equipment
to the bus or to the car or whatever. These
guys are getting changed onto the bus, head to the
new hotel and that's it. They're done. So I'm not
really worried about that. Don Busser, he's going to be
joining us in a little while. We'll see what he did.
I heard no reports of any bars in Mexico getting
shot up, thrown out, or whatever, so obviously he has
no bad beats to talk about, which is good.
Speaker 2: Andrew.
Speaker 3: Let's get started, man. Pittsburgh Penguins and Detroit. A little
surprised by this line. You think with Detroit they're just
they continue to roll that weird fishy line yesterday with
Winnipeg and Winnipeg I think in my six and sixty
which went three and three yesterday.
Speaker 2: So.
Speaker 3: Pretty crappy. But the pod play is where it's at
right now.
Speaker 2: Yeah this man, your pod plays keep rolling, so you'll
take that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we're up fifty percent in the pod plays. But
Pittsburgh one two, I don't get it. Make me understand
Detroit plus one oh nine total sits here at six
and a half. Make me understand this line, Andrew.
Speaker 1: I feel like that's just like the new segment we
have is like we put these games on the board
that you and I are both like scratching our head with.
And of course, as you mentioned yesterday, the Winnipeg one
you know, the Winnipeg one was one that didn't really
make sense. The only thing we can really think about
is is there some type of rest factor here that
we take into consideration karm Because remember how I'm always
talking about how like if it's a second half of
a back to back, but you have a team motivated,
it's different than if a team is, you know, coming
off a win, right, And I use that yesterday actually
for the Devils, and they actually were successful. They were
coming off of four nothing, shutout loss against the Maple
Leafs and then they end up getting the win yesterday.
I know they played the Blue Jackets, but that's saying
that I've been using for most of the season. I
think it works pretty well. So that's kind of the
adage is like, you know, you fade a team when
they're coming off a win, and you maybe look to
bet on them when they're playing second half of back
to back when they're coming off a loss. You know,
looking at that game for Detroit, they looked they looked
pretty good.
Speaker 2: I would say, like a lot of the numbers that
I'm going over here, it just it seems like this team, like,
you know, as much as I haven't really believed in them,
karm Like, this is a team that we have to
give a little bit of credit to because whether it's
defensive victories or whether it's offensive victories, they've been finding
a way to get the job done.
Speaker 1: There's no denying it. I know Winnipeg is a struggling
team right now. We can't really say that, you know
that win yesterday was against an upper echelon team because
Winnipeg has not been good this season. But Caren, the
cool thing about this matchup here is that it's going
to be a back to back, a home and home
between these two teams. Right So you've got Detroit and
Pittsburgh playing today and then on Saturday, they're going to
play at noon once again. So you could kind of
go for that angle where you wait to see what
happens in this game and you make your play reflecting
based on what you saw in tonight's game on Saturday.
But if I'm playing, I'm laying you know, I will
take the home team today. Pittsburgh does play better at
home right now. The only thing I do worry about
is the defensive metrics have been really sliding for the
Pittsburgh Penguins. They were in probably you know, the second
or third tier as far as they're defensive metrics are concerned.
And over the last fifteen games ten games, they've just
dripped down into the bottom tier. So maybe look towards
the over or if I was playing the Pittsburgh Penguins,
you know, I love those team totals, Karm, Maybe I
don't worry about what the Red Wings do and I
just take a look overall at the Pittsburgh team total.
Over when it comes to the starting goalies in this
one here, you gotta think with this Pittsburgh Penguins team,
like you don't really want to worry about the goaltending situation.
Like when I'm looking at it here, I don't think
that Pittsburgh's really a team. Whether it's Stuart Skinner or
she loves where, I really want to be betting on
the goalies. So I think team total is probably the
way to go. Cam Talbot probable eleven six and two
on the year, but he has an eight eight eight
save percentage, So Carm, I'm gonna go with the home team.
We'll we'll try again here today. We'll take the team.
The numbers a bit weird on We're gonna bet on
the team that is well out of a playoff spot
against the team that is in a playoff position near
the top of their division. And again it's a home
and home with these two teams. So based on what
I see in this one, I'll be able to make
a good decision for Saturday's game as well.
Speaker 2: But what do you say we do it again here? Calm.
We got to trust our process and we didn't hit
Winnipeg yesterday, but maybe we can hit Pittsburgh today.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's the I got sucked in by the fishy
line yesterday. But and and maybe it's another one today.
But I think Pittsburgh if the goalies and she loves
is confirmed. But if it's Cam Talbot and goal like,
he's two and six his last eight games, a couple
of ot losses in there hasn't been And when you
when you look at it, you think two and six
on a struggling team is acceptable. But on a Detroit
team that is winning games, six is not a good
record for a goalie. And this is uh with that
goaltending to do it that they have and that's why Gibson,
I think, is getting more of the starts and is
becoming the number one goalie there. The Talbot's going to
be the backup clearly, but one thirty two on Pittsburgh
and you know me and lost kid when he watches
a little later on weeks up from his drunken stupor
or whatever he's in. No he's not, but he's going
to be like Karm took the Penguins. What the heck
is going on there? But yeah, I am taking the
Pittsburgh Penguins today. Minus one thirty two will probably be
a small client play as well, based on the goalies.
Once there's a goalie confirmation, they'll probably be like a
two percent play for me, same.
Speaker 2: For me, Karm.
Speaker 1: And it's the same price on this one that it
was yesterday on the Capitol's team too. I like the
plus one fifteen so if anybody's interested as well, Habs
Relic mentions it plus one to fifteen for them to
get four goals, you have to think, Karm, I don't
have the data in front of me, but you have
to think most of the wins the Pittsburgh Penguins get,
they need four goals. They're not winning a low scoring games, right,
They're not winning a lot of one you know, two
to one games.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and that's the thing. You know, Pens went through
that the whole stretch, and I was fading the Pens
the whole way and making money off of them. But
they won like three of their last four games. The
game against Carolina. Carolina was absolutely flat. In that game,
Freddy Anderson did not play well. And that's the one
thing with adding plays like for my clients and waiting
is on some goalie confirmations because now we're at the
halfway point of the season, and I think that with
some of the teams, when you identify that a goalie
is struggling or a goalie is not doing well, you
need to wait to make sure he is in goal.
And you know that was something with that scher Demco.
When I took Philadelphia as a pod play a couple
of days ago, and that one one I talked about
the same thing about Freddy Anderson being in goal. I
tried to approach a little differently. Instead of taking Pittsburgh
in that game Andrew, I tried to go with over
six Freddy Anderson allow was like five goals in that game.
I finishes five to one. I thought Carolina would at
least contribute a couple goals to that, but the thought
process is there attack teams with struggling goalies, And this
is one of those ones where I like what the
Wings are doing this season, but I don't like what
Ken Talbot is doing lately.
Speaker 1: So two and six and especially teams are using their
backup more than ever now. Like remember we talked about
a couple weeks ago where like back in the day,
there used to be starting goalies playing sixty five games,
you know, like a ridiculous amount of games, But now
the backup goalies are getting more games. So there's a
big difference for some teams between the one A and
the one B or the starter versus the backup. And
if you can expose a backup, then you're gonna be
able to make money. So let's find out how Buster's
night was. Buster, Happy New Year, Brother Happy twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2: How you doing?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm doing okay. I came on this show and
I heard Carmine saying about a bad beat or something.
I'm not sure what that was. I kind of I
wouldn't say I got a bad beat, I had a
bad push, And it just reminded me of you guys
talk about the Carolina game. I had that Vegas game
over six and I was four to two with about
twelve minutes left in the second period and couldn't get
another goal. So those games are killers. And the game
I gave out the other day, I gave out Carolina,
but I said I did like the over and had
a little play on the over and that that's another game.
And Carline just mentioned that was it was five to
one after the second period. We all should have won
that game. Yeah, right, it was five to one after
So there's a couple of games when and when you're
doing this, and it's a it's a long I always
say it's a marathon now to sprint. Those kind of
games hurt, even though you push them they should be winners.
They hurt because a lot of times you get games
that you know you should win and we all know
you lose. So but by besides, yeah, happy new year
to everybody. Glad to be on the show for the
first show of the twenty twenty sixth season, and hopefully
we can give you a winner today.
Speaker 3: Yeah, buster, And you failed to mention one of the
biggest games of the night to close off.
Speaker 4: The year they have had.
Speaker 3: They have had this, this game circled for twelve or
thirteen years now the Buffalo Sabers as a revenge game,
going into Dallas and beating the Dallas Stars. Ten wins
in a row for the Buffalo Sabers, ten wins in
a row. Let's just award them the Stanley Cup right.
Speaker 2: Now, and they're in a playoff spot now, they're actually
in a play.
Speaker 3: Ten wins in a row and they're barely in a
playoffs spot right now is what we should be saying.
Speaker 4: But buster full disclosure, guys, I guess why I say
Dallas was my only loser. Last night I went two
one to one in hockey, and I was It was
the first time I went against those Sabers. I really
believe that I just made a small play because the
juice was so high. But I'll tell you watching that
game that Dallas Buffalo out. If they play like that,
they may go fifteen sixteen, seventeen games. They played excellent hockey.
I mean they outworked them, out hustled them at home,
they really did. And you know, and they're getting some
good goaltending, so all those things. Yeah, I won't stand
in front of it again. I did it once I'll
just wait to see it, because we all know good
things come to an end, which I might elaborate a
little bit in this next.
Speaker 2: The whole division is great, like with now and.
Speaker 3: On yesterday's show. Yeah, I mentioned on yesterday's show is
the minute the Sabers lose, I'm just going to double
up on them losing again and then again because because
right now in that dressing room, they're on a high
ten wins in a row. But when you lose that game,
normally you see good teams that are on a good
run lose a game, and then they lose a second
game and maybe a third game. I just it's just
it's the law of diminishing returns kind of, or the regressions. Mean,
at some point, when the Sabers lose a game, they're
gonna lose two, they're gonna lose three, they're gonna lose four.
It's just a matter of that schedule and where that
break in the schedule becomes. But you decided, for some
reason to start your twenty twenty six talking about your
second favorite team, the Toronto maple Leiefs minus one thirty
seven against the Winnipeg Jets plus one thirteen with a
total of six. Break it down for us.
Speaker 4: Yeah, as I said to you last night, there's a
lot of games today with teams that played yesterday, and
they're all seem to be on the road, which which
I find a little strange, but which makes for for
a tough night to me. I just think this is
a tough card to go through. But I grabbed this
Winnipeg game. The Jets come to Toronto on a back to back,
as you guys talked about them playing in Detroit yesterday,
and it's gonna be the third game in four nights. However,
I think Winnipeg's got even a little bit of a
bigger problem going on right now. They've only won once
in eleven games. That's not good now. Toronto, as you said, Carmine,
I think they're a one forty favorite, and it might
be a little bit larger. It looks like Matthews is
going to play tonight. Need Lander, he didn't skate this morning,
so chances are he may not, but it's probably a
game time decision there. That line would be a lot
higher if both those guys were playing, that's for sure.
Toronto played a solid game last game, beat New Jersey
four nothing, without those two guys. So maybe it's time
to get a big trade going on in Toronto. Hey,
I'm not saying that, but I am saying that that's
probably something needs to happen there to shake things up.
Maybe even though they have wall a net and he's
been playing really well, you're gonna need a real goalie.
I don't know if there's a lot out there available,
but you're gonna need a real goalie to win that
Stanley Cupper to at least make the playoffs even at
this point. But you have to remember Toronto has one
three or the last four. But if you go back
before that three out of four, they had lost five
out of six. So this team is both as inconsistent
as it comes. They're just all over the place. And
I'm not sure you really want to bet Toronto tonight,
only because at what point does Winnipeg get that monkey
off their back? That's the way you got to ask yourself.
They are two and one in this back to back
situation on this season, and they have played better their
last four games. They lost two games in ot they
dominated it, if you ask me, I watched a lot
of that game against Edmonton and they lost, but they
they just couldn't score, a problem that they do have
sometime because they want to play more defense, and I
think that they have to start opening things up. And
then last night you guys talked about the Detroit game.
It was you know, they could have won. They lost
two to one. It's one of those games. But I
think they're playing better. Truthfully, I'm not one winning eleven games.
My gut, watching forty years of hockey forty five, I
guess I keep aging myself tells me Winnipeg could be
the play here. I don't want to play Toronto at
the one forty. But as I've said before in this
show years ago, your gut doesn't decide things for you.
This is a bad situation for Winnipeg, and so I'm
going to pass aside here. What we do play is
the over here. But I'm going to get into breaking
this down a bit. Even though Toronto has played way
way much more unders in this month of December, and
they do play a lot of unders at home, they
have gone for their last to the over now head
to head between these guys. These guys play any type
of game. It it seems to you could be high scoring,
low scoring, and there are four overs, four unders in
the last eight, so we can have any type of
game here. We do always like playing the over after
when the team comes in a third game of four nights.
So you guys talking about that Detroit Pittsburgh game, I'm
with you. I kind of like it over myself. But
I think the line six and a half, so you
might have a little pause on that. But yeah, I like,
I like playing a game over like that. But the
total here.
Speaker 5: Is six and I see some six and a halfs too,
so that's I find that a little stranger was told
because last night, like late, it was five and a
half over forty or something like that, so you could
have maybe played that and it's gone up a goal
I think.
Speaker 4: A fandel even, which is crazy. But and saying all that,
what I'm gonna do is Andrew McGinnis special, except for
I'm going to lay a little bit of juice. We
are going to play it over, but we're gonna play
the Winnipeg Jets over two and a half goals. It's
minus one forty. Like I say, Andrew wouldn't. It's kind
of an Andrew McGinn especially, you wouldn't play this because
of the juice, but I really like it. I think
they have to be more offensive tonight, and tonight it
will be a good night to do it, especially because
they have played pretty good lately, even though they haven't
got the results. But they also I think they have
to play more offensively, guys.
Speaker 1: I like it, Buster, And it's like I've been talking about,
there's a difference between a team and a second half
of back to back off of loss or off a win.
You know that these teams come in motivated and you know,
fired up a little bit.
Speaker 2: Do you think there's a difference here.
Speaker 1: I know you talked about the Leafs like and their
play style recently, but sometimes people talk about a team
coming into a game off a game in.
Speaker 2: Which they were shut out.
Speaker 1: What about a Leafs team off a game in which
they shut somebody else out. I don't think they can
replicate that performance.
Speaker 4: I agree, right for sure they won't, and especially if
like Matthews is supposed to be back, and I know
they seem to play a little bit different with them,
There's no doubt about that, and it should be a
good thing, should it not. But for some reason, like
I said before, they have gone three out of four
winning three or the last four, but before that they
had lost five out of six games. So I say
this all the time. If I write up a game
with Toronto involved, I'm really not sure what we get
with this Leafs team from night to night. That seems
to be a problem. So I don't really play them
at all that much. And if I am playing them,
it's either an over and under, so.
Speaker 2: Easier to use no totals.
Speaker 3: I am gonna I am gonna do the Andrew special
and go the other way. I'm going to take the
Leafs team total over three and a half goals plus
one ten on this one Andrew, and here's my thing.
Game over then no, because Winnipeg might not contribute anything.
Speaker 4: Who knows what we get? I just win over to Well.
Speaker 3: No, it's listen, if we don't disagree, there is no market.
If we agree, or sorry, if we agree, there is
no market. It's it's about disagreeing. Eric, Eric Comery and goal.
The guy hasn't played since December eleventh because it's been
all uh Connor Hallibuck since he's come back. So it's
like eter Aron games in a row for collab hundred bucks.
And you look at the three previous games that Comray
had three straight games where he allowed four or five
goals in each of each one of those games. He's
not he's not a number one goalie. He's barely a
number two goalie. And when you're a number two goalie
on a team like Winnipeg who's struggling to score goals anyways,
you're gonna end up with a lot of l's. Kind
of like I was joking around with Wash Redskins who
told me that the Sabers were gonna get the L
last night. But it didn't happen. But with that said,
we love our we love our followers, the commenters, So
don't worry Wash, you guys, the Redskins, Sorry, the Redskins.
The Capital's won yesterday, Leafs plus one ten. I'd rather
take the Leaf's team total than I would the Leaf's
minus one thirty seven plus one ten. Give me the
plus money, baby, Well.
Speaker 1: You guys can both win your bets. You guys can
both win your bests. The only thing is that I
think that we're gonna get probably a little bit of
a lackluster start from the Leafs just because they've been
they have not been able to follow up a good
performance with another good performance. I know that sounds like
a bad handicap, but it's true. This team, they give
their coach a reason to get excited about something and
then they just don't follow it up.
Speaker 2: Like you guys.
Speaker 1: Berube was talking to them like they were a bunch
of like middle schoolers, like he was so proud of
them for playing it. It's like, dude, these guys make
millions of dollars, you're so proud of them. It's like,
you know, hey, Austin Matthews, you know, I know you
didn't play tonight, but I'm so proud of you for
cheering on your team in the press box, Like you know,
these guys aren't going to be able to follow up
a four nothing lead, I don't think with another good performance.
So uh, this would be a good one because you know,
I think that it's definitely a contrarian playbuster. So we'll see,
we'll see how it goes. But Multiple Sports, what do
you have going on at wager Talk?
Speaker 4: I just wanted to mention there, Angel what you said
about Perubay. You know what, even even Berubay, he doesn't
even know what to make of his own team, like
because they're just they play. You know, they could be
so good, but they just play so inconsistent and it's
just yeah, that's why he was probably even doing that
in the press conference because he doesn't even know what
to do. And that guy's a great coach too. So anyways,
uh yeah, tonight we just sat. We have a NHL played.
We actually put out a double play package NHL last night.
Those two games did win, and we have one game
up tonight. Like I said, find it a tough, tough
little NHL schedule for me when I was going through
all the games, So we do have one that we
like and put that up at the site of wager talk. Also,
remember what's best to do is grab the three days
of NHL. They still have that special going the hat
trick special three days includes any five percents that we
release only forty nine dollars. And like I said, guys,
Happy New Year, Happy new Year to everybody watching, everybody
in the chat, everybody that's going to watch this, all
the best to everybody's families. Have a safe and happy
new Year, and best of luck with all your plays. Everyone.
Speaker 3: But you can give me a favor. I see in
your background there, I see the Mexican flag, and I
get it, you're in Mexico. But if you can just add,
like you know, a Canadian flag in there somewhere, maybe
a US flag for the people that support you and
buy your your plays each and every day throughout the year.
Speaker 4: You know what I mean?
Speaker 3: That allow you to allow you to vacation three hundred
and sixty five days a year in the sun and
sand of Mexico. A US flag, a Canadian flag would
be fantastic.
Speaker 4: Okay, Carbine, Well, I don't know if I will do that,
but we'll we'll see, because if I put up then
I have to put up both. I'm not sure if
I can find a Canadian and American flag down here,
so you get one back.
Speaker 2: What you do is, I will say that behind you uster.
Speaker 3: When like when the federal federalaley is uh, you know,
storm your house and see all three flags. You can say,
because you do a show about the World Cup that
is being held in Mexico, Canada in the USA. There
you go, well and.
Speaker 4: You get Amazonbia fly Canadian and American flag. Because I'm not.
Speaker 3: Sure I will do that.
Speaker 4: I will do that, Okay, take care of the.
Speaker 1: Boy, all right, car We got one more game to
get to here, Tampa Bay and Los Angeles. We've had
a bunch of money come in on Tampa in this
one here. Recent numbers tell us that LA is kind
of slipping a little bit. But when I look at
things overall, kind of just my breakdown on this game,
I actually think we're going to get some goals here.
Look the Kings on the season, they're one of the
top teams and goals against, and they've got great goaltending
lately gets slipped for them. And you know Tampa is
flying offensively. We've seen them play in some higher scoring games. Carl,
I'll keep it short and simple. I like the over
in this game. I think we're going to get two
teams with a ton of action, a ton of pace,
and even just looking at some of the recent games
here for this Lightning team, like, I think they haven't
even been reaching their potential and they've still been involved
in some higher scoring games. Four to three overtime win
against the Daheim Ducks yesterday on the road. Now you
continue your road trip, obviously not too far, but playing
against the Kings now today, I have no reason to
believe this won't be another high scoring game and get
over the total. You know, La, They've got some offense,
but right now their defense is sliding. And Tampa Bay,
we've been seeing them just absolutely involved in track meets.
I'm not sure if that's how John Cooper wants his
team playing right now, but they have been. And I'll
tell you one thing. I know you used to bet
with this in the playoffs, but the power play points.
If you want to bet any of those power play points,
one team to do it with is Tampa Bay because
their power play is so strong. So whether it be
the first period over or the full game, I do
think we got some goals in this one.
Speaker 2: Do you agree with me?
Speaker 3: I think there's gonna be goals in this game. I
actually think that the Kings might get some of them.
You know, you get Tampa off of back to back again,
it's a short trip from Anaheim to to Elli. Hop
of the bus and you're you're there, But it's a
goaltending for me once again, it's ah Jo Hansen in
goal for for johansonon it looks like it's Jo Hansen
in goal for Tampa and I get the the Kings
played that sort of or sorry, the Tampa played that
next man up sort of mentality when when Vaskolevski went
down with an injury and and jo Hansen was good.
There were games. I think there's a a four game stretch,
a five game stretch where he allowed one goal in
for of those five games. But you look at his
last three, last three or four starts, He's allowed four
or more goals in three of his last four games.
The only start in which he didn't was against the
New York Islanders in a three to two game where
he got the loss. Uh one of the goals was
was it an empty netter? I'm just trying to find
it here. Uh three two loss in his shootout soor
or in a shootout. So I don't put a lot
of stock in those those sho wins. But it's the
regulation ones allowing goals. Andrew, you look at the team
total and this is like right up your alley because
you're a team total. This guy, would you what is
what is your ceiling on lane vig with team totals?
Because I'm looking at Elie Kings and over two and
a half goals, it's like one seventy five. It's way
too juicy. But or Viiggie, but over three and a
half goals is plus one thirty five. Um, what do
you do there? Make me understand this one, because because
I want to say, I don't want to say I'm
certain because then people will just like you said that
we're going to score at least three goals last night. Whatever.
I'm certain that the Kings are going to score some
goals today. But if it lands on three, you're cashing
the over two seventy five. You are well laying viig,
but you are losing the plus money one. So it
is a tough one to take. But how would you
play this one?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I mean I think a lot of times if you
are interested in the over two and a half at
that heavy juice, then you probably just either take the
full game or you take the money line.
Speaker 2: On the underdog.
Speaker 1: But my range is anywhere between plus one twenty to
minus one thirty one forty, like if it's a team total.
But I get what you mean, Like sometimes I think
that you see those two and a half and you're like, Okay,
this team is doing so well right now, and they're
gonna be able to expose a certain team. It's like
you said it, Vassilevski and even some of these top
tier goalies are not playing as well as they once
were earlier in the season. You're gonna be able to
get some goals. And Carm, I think that overall today
the Grand Salami could go over the total. But I
think if you like that, over Karm, you just might
as well play the full game. What do you think
about the first period over though? Me and you haven't
done a lot of those actually recently. You know, they're
coming off a game against Anaheim that went to overtime,
you know, and you've got an LA team, like I said,
that's not been as good defensively lately. What about you know,
two goals or more in the first period.
Speaker 3: It's just because it's the LA Kings, right if it
was any other team than the LA Kings, you know,
I mean, like we see sometimes you see like a
slow start to a game and then the goals come,
you know what I mean? Like the pod play yesterday
was Anaheim and Tampa Bay. And before I left to
head out for my uber arrived and before I was
sent out to dinner, the Tampa Bay game was basically
at the end of the first period and it was
one nothing for Tampa Bay and I'm like this, this
total of six and a half is not going to
get there, and it finishes four to three. So the
goals came. Eventually, the goals came. As much as I
want to complain about the Vegas Golden Knights in Nashville
having six goals halfway through the game and then six
and it's a bad beat, which I tweeted out. I
thought it was a bad beat or a bad push.
We got all the goals later on in the game
in the in the Ducks Lightning game, Well, you know
we're gonna have to see uh it's the Kings, the
Kings at home. Just I just don't get this team.
And I just think that, you know. I mean, in
taking Tampa yesterday and talking about Tampa, it was one
of those things that going into that game, Tampa Bay
had scored nineteen goals over four games. The analytics showed
that they were about to go on a run. And
I don't want I don't want to look at and
say that the run ends today just because they're on
a back to back.
Speaker 2: Yeah that's what I mean. Yeah, I don't think.
Speaker 3: It's a true back to back. It's this is the
same as if these teams. If Tampa was playing another
game in the same city against Anaheim tonight, it's the
same thing, yes, Andrew. It is a such a a
close thing that it's a back to back, but it's
just two games in two days, basically one hundred miles
from each other. Now, guys in la and Anaheim, you
can tell me how short that bus ride is. But
it's not that. It can't be that bad.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's not much.
Speaker 1: It should be a good game, though, Karen, should be
a good game overall. I want to say that yesterday,
the same game parlays. Yeah, yeah, I don't blame Yeah,
it's gonna be a good one.
Speaker 2: Though. It's gonna be a good game.
Speaker 1: Yesterday, guys, the same gamers, we went two for three
with the same game parlays. So I told you guys
yesterday that I gave out a handful of picks. We
had one big same game parlay, but we had three
two teamers and we went two for three with those.
I hope you guys were able to make some money
with that one, especially that Minnesota one that was pretty
good to look at.
Speaker 2: And the sometimes car.
Speaker 1: It's as easy as this, Nico Heaschier and Timo Meyer
both to get a point. You know, you don't have
to always reinvent the wheel, two of the top dogs
on the team for the Devils to get one point,
and they did that, they got the win. Maybe I
could have thrown Devil's win on there for some better odds,
but hey, we'll take it and move on. So, guys,
I have not done my prop work yet today, but
I will have some stuff up in the afternoon. I'm
gonna tweet out some head to head stuff and I'm
also gonna tweet out just a couple of matchup bass
plays as well, just for some props. So follow myself
at McGuinness picks and Carmine at Carmi and Bianco wt
if that's right, carm But you know, I think that
there's gonna be two different angles you can look at.
You can look at the guys that are excited to
make the rosters for their Olympics, but you can also
bet on the guys that didn't make their team, the
guys that didn't you know, make their certain sport. Like yeah,
you know, maybe a guy like Cole Kaffield today for Montreal,
you know, like he's not gonna make Team USA.
Speaker 2: He's gonna do everything he can to prove people wrong.
Speaker 1: Some people play with a chip on their shoulder, as
you know, so I'd be curious to see who steps
up and which kind of players end up getting it together. Yeah,
a lot of love today in the chat for me
and you karm, so we appreciate it, guys. We love
doing punk time and we got a lot of you
guys watching right now.
Speaker 2: So hey, how are you guys? You guys are here
with us, Thanks for being here. Guys, are you guys
in the chat?
Speaker 3: Even awake? Come on, guys, it's like New Year's Day
because your guys are going to be watching NHL hockey
at one o'clock and we have, of course, Andrew, we
have the college football playoffs going today as well. To
have one play, I just have to add the analysis
and then it'll be up for sale. But two and
oh yesterday with college football plays Miami Florida, I thought
they could win outright, and but I took the plus
nine and a half points. They beat those frauds from
Ohio State, and of course I took the Dukies duke
first half and they got the job done as well too.
So eleven I think eleven three and one in college football,
the Bulls in playoffs for me, Andrew.
Speaker 2: Rolling.
Speaker 3: So But with that said, Andrew, there was a guy
in chat saying, why do you guys keep fading the
Seattle Kracking and losing money? I haven't been fading the
Seattle cracking. If we talk about them, I probably pick
against them. They're five and five their last ten games.
They're five and ten their last fifteen games. Unless you're
getting them at plus two hundred or more each game
and betting them on the money line the last fifteen games,
you're losing money on the Seattle cracking. But I don't
pick on teams because you know who's a cracking fan,
Andrew raven Ron. He'll be here in the chat at
some point, Andrew, no same game party. You're gonna tweet
something out of course, But let's do a pod play.
And in honor of Don Buster and Andrew McKennis being
Montreal Canadian fans, I am taking the Carolina Hurricanes minus
one and a half plus one thirty six on the
puck line. They're coming off a bad loss in Pittsburgh.
Better goalie today and Bouci And here's the thing. Twelve
straight wins at home for Carolina over the Montreal Canadians. Sorry,
seven straight wins by two or more goals over the
Montreal Canadians. We are going with the Canes minus one
and a half plus one thirty six as your bank
roll play and as you can see there, we are
up fifty percent of our bank roll on the season.
Drop a drop a comment, guys when this video's posted
later on, if you're watching a little later on, about
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doing a donation to a few of those charities that
you guys post in the US. I've already done one
here in Canada, and we'll do some to the US
for you guys as well too, because we appreciate you
guys being a part of this whole process at wager Talk.
Speaker 2: Save your Money. Carm It's a different HABS team. I
like it. John. You tell him John, tell him how
it is. John. It's a different come on is.
Speaker 3: John is John hank Is Johnny Niagara with Habs Relic
Because I heard there was a nice storm out there, guys.
Speaker 2: You have an army. You have an army of Habs fans,
and this live chat.
Speaker 3: I love me of Habs fans. You know, we could
easily take over Ontario, could easily take over Quebec. We
just storm storm in there and we take your Montreal bagels,
we take your smoked meat, and we take your proutine
and we make it our own and we force you
to speak English instead of French. But that's a show
for another day.
Speaker 1: Yes, and it's gonna be a good game, KRM. I'll
just mention for me six and one run now with
the NHL. I'll have a couple plays today. I have
one four percent best bet that'll go up after the show.
You guys can get that. We're heating up. We're picking away.
We've got one or two plays each day. Low volume,
not in the year I'm happy about. But we've cooled
down with the volume and we're getting a lot better
now with the results. So six and one with the
NHL yesterday, nice winner with three and a half overteam
total capitals. We get six goals, so we'll try and
keep it going. We've got some college sport action as
well here today you guys can get that action for
me at WT dot bus slash am. But Karm, I
believe that new twenty five deal is still available for anybody.
Twenty five percent off any package we have going right now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely great deal, I know. And I think those
of you that came along and purchased the one year
all access which was five hundred dollars off, plus you
could use the coupon to get another twenty five percent off.
I think that might still be available. I'm not entirely sure,
but at the very least, twenty five percent off is
a great deal on any of the packages, whether it's
a one day, a one week, or one month or
one year, take advantage of it. Guys, Listen, we appreciate
you guys tuning in, especially on first day of twenty
twenty six. I'm surprised some of you guys are typing
and actually getting the words right today. But with that said, guys,
we're going to be back on Friday with another show
and we'll try and get a very good sixteen sixty
for you guys, and hopefully another pod play that wins
for myself, Andrew mckinnis and today's guest don Buster. Guys,
Happy new year's and we'll see you on Friday.