Speaker 1: Happy Thursday, guys, March twenty six, We are live here
on Puck Time wager Talk TV today Andrew McGuinness, Brian Leonard,
don Buster here to break down a handful of games
with you. Carmen has the day off, but don't worry,
he still has a play of the day for you
guys here on the show. I missed yesterday's show. I
was doing some moving stuff and as you can tell
with kind of the grim setup today and nothing in
the background once again, we are still getting that stuff
figured out, so on an old computer, old setup, old desk.
But Brian, we're ready to roll here. We can't miss
back to back shows, that's for sure. And nobody likes moving, man,
But once you get to the new spot, it's always fun.
So Brian, I'm sure you were excited about yesterday. They
called it Opening Day in baseball, but I'll tell you
it really feels like opening Day today. And of course
yesterday there were just two NHL games. I decided to pass,
so it kind of worked out very well, because you
know what, not being on a show when it's a
busy day kind of sucks. But yesterday, having to miss
the show and only two games wasn't too bad. But
how you doing, Brian, How was your Wednesday?
Speaker 2: I'm doing really well. I'm glad you explained your situation
because the way it looks to me is I thought
for a minute there that you had gotten arrested and
you were calling one of us for bail. But yeah,
the moving sucks. It anytime you move, it sucks. Everybody
knows it. I'm sure it'll be happy when you get
in there. Yeah, it was a game last night that
Major League Baseball, and I never had a chance to
watch it because I was working on everything else going
on to just a huge day obviously the NCAA tournament,
NBA has got a few games, hockey's got a really
nice car today, and eleven games in baseball, so a
lot going on today. Let's get to it and get
you some winners.
Speaker 1: Let's do it, and I'll just say with this here,
I did have one play and it was Max Freed
under one and to have earned runs, and I love
that the way it worked out because it got sweaty
with the first inning. Other than that, it was pretty good.
But Brian, I saw a lot of people like that
first five innings under or full game under even and
it was one pitcher that pitched well and Logan Web
got attacked. So it was nice to have a winner
to start the year off there. And again NHL was
pretty pretty quiet. We got Carmine in the chat. Good
to have Karmi here with us. Again. We will have
a play of the day at the end of the
show from him. Brian, you know, I love talking about Montreal,
so let's start things off with that game Montreal around
minus one twenty five. Numbers we're going to talk about
today are overnight numbers. We will mention some line moves
as they happen and when they do happen. But Brian, look,
these are two teams in pretty good form, but especially
this Blue Jackets team. I'm not going to lie to you.
I mean, it's hard for anybody to find a reason
to go against this Columbus Blue Jackets team. Right now.
We've talked about it at nauseum and I always give
it shout out to Dave Coke and rest in peace
to Dave. About the coaches firing, it seems like when
any coach gets fired, it just absolutely jolts a team.
And it's an understatement when you really talk about that
with Columbus right now. Big win from Montreal against Carolina
though on Tuesday, what do you think about this matchup today?
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is an exciting game. You mentioned how well
these teams are doing. You've got a Montreal team that's
been just terrific at home is of late, they're not
really nice run and you're going up becaus this Columbus team.
You know, you look at the month this month and
just the last couple of weeks, they did have losses
to Florida and to the Islanders, but they gave up
one goal in regulation to Florida and one goal to
the Islanders. So defense on this team has just really
been very good. The other games played lately, they've gone
up two three one. So it's a situation right now
where the Blue Jacks defensively are doing really well and
I think they'll have some success here against the Montreal team,
who is also playing very well. Right now, you take
a look at the Canadians that you're in a better
scheduling situation and right now we're going to have this
because of the Olympic break and all that, but you're
going to have to take major looks at the schedule
and necessarily the second game in four days for Montreal,
while we've got the same or a similar situation to
the Blue Jacks. But this is a third game in
four or three, third game in five days for the
Blue Jackets, fourth game in six days, so I think
that evens it out a little bit. I had Columbus
slightly favored in this game, and I did. I did
lean a little bit that way, but with the scheduling
situation puts me a little bit more on the home
team in this one. So it's just it's what I
would consider a game that we're looking in the one
fifteen to one twenty range. I probably wouldn't made it
one twenty five, so slightly with Montreal. But should be
a really good game. And these two teams are playing well,
don't you all. As you know, they hit that little
slump there and people were worried, but I believe they
have like a three game lead now in that in
that spot in the standing. So should be a really
nice game. Excited to be able to catch it a
little bit.
Speaker 1: Yeah, playing Carolina twice in a matter of I think
six or seven days, they need to get They needed
to get one of those wins from the way people
looked at it, and one difference I'll say about the
Canadians Brian. As I always do, I try and take
my bias hat off when I talk about this team,
but I've noticed they'd been able to come back in
games a lot more like last year. The only games
they would win were games that they got the lead
in they weren't able to come back, and that game
against Carolina they played that was probably the worst first
period I've seen them play all year long. And I
remember a reporter asked Saint Louis after the game, Hey,
did you say something to the team at the intermission,
and they kind of looked at are you stupid? Of
course I said something to them. I needed to get
them motivated a little bit. So I think that the
start's going to be really good for them. I was
kind of looking at Montreal first period money line. Usually
when I play those bets on playing like the minus
a half goal to get a better price or a
first period total. But I am a big fan of
from one game to the next, teams don't forget certain
things that happened, and even though Montreal ended up winning
that game, I think the coach is going to remind
them how horrible they looked in the first period of
their previous game. As you mentioned, Columbus has been extremely
busy lately, so I think first period money line it's
pretty much the same price as the full game money line.
I just think Montreal comes out and one thing as well,
this is a pretty young team. I believe they're top
two as far as the youngest teams in the league.
Home their home games down the stretch are so important, Brian,
and we don't want to put too much into it,
but they're going to go on the road here soon
to play Nashville and Carolina. I think it's really important
you protect home ice and get the wins at home
when you can. So Montreal for me at home in
the first period. Again, I'm not a huge coaches quot Scot,
but I watched games, and when I watched the game,
I said, Wow, this team looks awful in the first period.
Hopefully they they'll right the wrongs when it comes down
to the next one. But I want to ask you, Brian,
are you are you finding yourself more involved in games
involving playoff teams or non playoff teams, because yesterday I
actually the reason why I ended up passing the board
was because I leaned the Rangers and they actually outplayed
the Leaves, but they lost. And I said to myself,
why do I want to get myself involved in a
game between two teams that aren't even in the playoffs.
Speaker 2: It all comes down to value to me the guys.
It's not a game that is not a physical game.
It's we talk about this in football all the time.
It's not like you cannot run as hard or not
try as hard, because if you are that way, you're
going to get knocked on your ass. I mean, when
these guys are on the ice, they're there to win.
So yes, they may get rid of some of the
players and maybe take them out, you know, not if
you've got some injury injury injury complaints that they need
to worry about, that those guys may not play. But
still whoever's on the ice is going to get full
of effort. And as we have seen all season long,
these guys playing in the minors are most of them
are just like they can all in baseball, like a
Quad A. They're between the A or Triple A and
the majors. These guys are up and down, up and
down all the time, and they they take advantage of
whenever they get the chance, because they may only get
two thousand people to go see their minor league game,
they get twenty thousand see their NHL games, So they're
they're out there playing as hard as they can. So
I just look for where I think the value is.
And it doesn't matter if one team is in the playoffs,
so there's not if one team is locked it up
and the other the other's fighting. You've got to take
every game individually and try to guide some motivation. But
the motivation hockey isn't quite there because if you don't,
if you're not motivated, you want to get.
Speaker 1: Hurt one hundred percent. Contact sport Bryan for sure, and
we always say must win does not mean will win,
because if you were good enough to be in the playoffs,
you'd be in the playoffs already. So great stuff. Shout
out to all the guys in the live chat right
now on YouTube and on x with us commenting chiming
in well over two hundred to two hundred fifty people
here right now. I'm watching the show. Let us know
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hit the like button. It really does help us out. Brian,
You've got a great special going on. I believe it's
NHL and MLB. I've got special going on right now.
It's MLB and CFL. So as you can tell, guys,
a lot of people are tagging MLB with their specials.
But it's that time of year where some sports are
going to start winding down and some sports are going
to start picking up. And for me, my bread and
butter in the summer is CFL. And I also do
quite a bit of team totals in first five inning
plays with MLB, so they can go to WT dot
buzz slash bl and Brian, you'll have that up for
the next little while, at least right that package.
Speaker 2: I think they might have taken it down, but if
you were to text the office, just tell them that
we reminded them of it, and yeah, you'll you'll be
able to get in and and I've already got a
play up in hockey and nice play up in hockey today,
and I've got four plays up in baseball, including my
top total of the day in baseball. Really, so I
didn't have anything yesterday, but a good card today. And
by the way, since we mentioned it, I'll be doing
daily videos of baseball, you know, trying to make it
as short as possible. Talk about a game. I'm gonna
be putting that together right after you get done with
their show. So a lot of stuff out there for us.
If you do miss the Baseball Show, I'm on total
basis every day six ay, I'm here specific a lot
of time to find other information since then, and hopefully
we can get you some nice video. So yeah, really excited.
Number one all time in the NHL and profit number
one all time in Major League Baseball.
Speaker 1: Not a bad deal. Not a bad deal there, Brian,
that's for sure. Chuck says, especially hard to find puck
time on YouTube today. So I'll tell you guys this.
With our YouTube channel, there are two channels. There are
two streams being put out. One is the YouTube shorts
and one is the regular live show. This is the
live show. If it's vertical, sorry, The horizontal one is
the regular show and the vertical one is for the shorts. Also,
if you guys are looking for the show afterwards after
we're done going live, you don't go to videos on
the YouTube section. You go to live and the past
live show will show up there. As well all the
pre recorded baseball videos that Brian and I record and
other handicappers record and soccer stuff for Carmine. You can
get those under the video section. So just wanted to
make sure that nobody misses out on our stuff here. Brian,
that's for sure. Let's bring in a Buster.
Speaker 2: I'll be honest with you. And before we get to
Buster and hey, Buster, h I YouTube? Why don't they
just put the latest videos on the top and work
it down. That's a pet peeve of mine. I usually
put in have to put in the date. Uh So
I whyted to go back because we all go try
to go back in and and give some comments on
some of the questions, and a lot of times I
myself have a hard time doing. Uh it is more
work than it should be.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you that absolutely. But as Diaz, Buster, how
are you come?
Speaker 3: As boys? How you doing?
Speaker 1: Besides looking like I'm in a holding cell right now?
We're doing pretty good. Buster. I heard you you were
talking to some people watching the show.
Speaker 3: Yeah, actually I was gonna talk about before the breakdown.
But thank you for mentioned that. I just want to do.
You know, I usually don't get much of a chance
to talk on the little personal stuff. But I'm just
going to take a couple of minutes, but I think
it's worth it to let people know in the chat
and people that watch this on how hockey is becoming.
We all know it's a worldwide sport. But I've been
me and missus Buster have been going through getting our
permanent residency here in Mexico, and like every country, it's
government stuff, so it's you know, if you make a
mistake on paperwork, it's tough. So I just want to
make a shout out to my buddy Omar, who helped
us huge yesterday. I think we only have to do
two more appointments now to get our permanent residency. But
I met Omar a couple of weeks ago and he
says to me, oh, you're from Canada. Do you watch
hockey at all? It was like, do I watch hockey?
And I show him puck time. He's like, oh, me
and my friends we love hockey down here. We've been watching.
He goes, you wouldn't believe how many people here in
Mexico love hockey. And then his family too, who's scattered
across Mexico and a lot of places. They're big hockey fans.
I know in Portavarta it's become big too as well.
So again I want to know, usually I cheose these
guys off of that, but it's immigration, so you know
he's not that's his job what he did yesterday for us,
but it was a huge help. And I know he's
watched he watches the show with his buddies. As I
said to him, make sure you hit that like button.
And I just wanted to mention that because as a
hockey guy, hockey who I've loved hockey all my life,
and I know a lot of guys that we've had
watching the show for seven eight years that have been
staying with us, the Puck Time family. We're all love hockey.
And to see that it's maybe now north of Mayor
and wide eventually, that's a great thing. That really is
a great thing. It's always, you know, so really impressed.
I know there's a ton of Mexican Americans that watch hockey.
I've talked with them, you know, they did my clients.
But when Omar mentioned that to me, said, hey, just
let people know hockey is starting to become a thing
down here. So it might take another five to ten years,
but yeah, I was quite impressed, so I did want
to tell that little story. Hopefully I didn't waste too
much of the time, but I thought it was very
important to let anybody that loves hockey know that this
game is getting worldwide in almost every country.
Speaker 1: We're all about growing the game, Buster, We're all about
growing the game, that's for sure. And I know you've
told me. I've got some family that vacation in Mexico
and they've said they've had no trouble watching playoff games
or regular season games. And hey, if you're going to
have vacation somewhere, you want to be the talk hockey
and also watch hockey with people, that's for sure. I
remember I was in Punta Canada one time and I
was watching the March Madness finals. I just at a
local bar in Dominican and it was pretty cool because
like all the Americans gathered and people that were from
there gathered, and half the bar was cheering for one team,
half the bar was cheering for the other, and I
had no affiliation. I was just there for the atmosphere.
It was just great to be a part of. And
it felt so cool watching a March Madness game. You know,
in a whole different part of the world, which is
always a lot of fun because hey, you realize everybody
loves sports no matter where you go. So on that note,
let's get back to it here. We've got one team
you're going to talk about, Buster, that just refuses to lose.
There's a lot of teams in the NHL we can
talk about that refuse to lose. And well, Brian and
I just talked about CBJ, and that's a pretty good
team right now. But you're going to talk about our
nation's capital here in Canada and this team they are like, Look,
the funny thing is I made fun of Detroit for
a little while because I said, you know what this
team they're costing me. I mean, I lost so much
with them to start the year. The client's probably hated
seeing me fading Detroit. And then they started to finally
fade off a little and they got injuries, and then
they got it going again, and I said, Okay, maybe
this team's going to be better. So I said to
Karmon on our make or Miss segment, they're going to
make it, thinking that Ottawa there's no way they could
sustain it. Well, Buster, they've been sustaining it a bit,
but also Pittsburgh's got some juice to them as well.
What do you think about this game today.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Andrews, I came on the show on Tuesday and
we gave out two winners. We took Colorado and over
who really really liked that, put them out to our
clients and put them out for the show. Unfortunately, everybody
will only be giving you one winner tonight in a
Pittsburgh game. But first I'm going to take a quick
look at the total for everyone. These teams have played
this season already twice two unders, three two four h
of both Senators wins. In fact, when these teams get together,
it's amazing because you know, you'd think that be high
scoring games, but that's not the case. They've gone under
eight times out of the last ten games, so that's
something that is interesting. This did open at six and
a half under twenty and then it got bet down
last night to around six. But I see today this morning,
like bright early this morning, it was already back up
to six and a half. So the markets are not
too sure about this as well. And like I said,
you mentioned it, Andrew. After most of the season with
Ottawa being basically almost a dead over team, especially at home.
They're on the opposite side here, they've gone under and
seven of their last ten games. On the opposite side
of this total, you've got a Pittsburgh club that doesn't
play any defense. They do get sometimes they get some
good goaltending, and they've gone over nine of the last
ten times. So for me, another thing that you know
that six and a half, he almost because of the trend,
you almost want to say, well, unders the play. But
I just can't bet these two teams under, especially as
they both have very good power plays, so that's always dangerous.
So we're going to pass the total here. But what
we will do we're playing Odawa and we talked tuesday
on how we you know, actually Carmine asked me if
I thought Pittsburgh was going to make the playoffs, and
I said no, And I still don't think they're going
to make the playoffs. There's just too many teams there.
And this is a perfect example of a game that
Odawa and Pittsburgh both need to win.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 3: Ottawa, as you said, Andrew, they're like they just keep winning.
They've gone since the Olympic break ten to four. And
actually in those two of those four losses they went
to overtime, so they got a point in each one
of those. And we did talk about when these teams
get together they play a bunch of unders. Well, you
know what else happens when the teams get together. Ottawa
has dominated these guys. They've won both games this year
and they're eight and two their last ten over Pittsburgh,
and Pittsburgh when they play in Oddawa they have lost
their last five tries to win in Ottawa. Again, they're
both fighting for the playoffs. The money line I think
is right where it's supposed to be. Like I said
with Colorado, and Colorado was on the road. The only
thing is that Ottawa are playing that third game I
believe in four nights, so that's a little something. But
they had yesterday off, so that's not a big deal.
Our play here is Ottawa.
Speaker 1: Well, look, I don't blame you one bit buster, just
with how all this team has been playing, and they've
been they've been even overcoming some injuries as well. At
this point, I mean, look, there's still a handful of
games left in the season, but I'm gonna put you
on the spot with this one here and cuts you
off guard a little. I mean, who misses the playoffs?
Is it the Bruins or is it the Penguins or that?
I mean this matchup is even though they're not in
the same division, this matchup is huge for both of
these teams in their own way.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Well, as me and Carmi talked about on Tuesday,
I believe Pittsburgh is a team that will miss the playoffs.
There's again, but there's such a logjam there. So do
the Islanders sneak up and get us spot on the
I don't think so. You know, I really like what
I'm seeing other Columbus. I'm really liking what I see
out of Ottawa. And I'm just gonna make another little
point about Ottawa. When they played in Detroit the other night,
they got out played bad, and they still won. So
now they've played a shit game and now they've got
a day off, they're going to be really strong because
sometimes you win games in this league, and we all
know that when your goaltending is good. And all Mark's
been good for the Ottawa Senators. So I do like
Ottawa and Columbus to sneak into those spots. And I
believe they're both in spots right now, or Ottawa's just
out of a spot, So maybe Pittsburgh is the team out,
and I think that's what's going to happen.
Speaker 1: Buster. I'll tell you, man. We got a big Thursday
at HL. We got the real opening day with a
million games. And of course I told you I'm busy
with my stuff. I don't know what I'd been doing
without this some Canadians, some Canadians have moved past it.
I'm still pretty loyal to the good old Tim Horton.
So it's a busy, busy day for all of us.
What do you have going on at wager Talk?
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the shows and doing the great work that you're doing
with that Baseball show as well. Yeah, you guys, we've talked.
I haven't talked about today, but we have that great
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Speaker 1: Hey, Carmine's encouraging it. Here he's grab Busters passage. On
that note, Buster, We'll talk you later. Brother. Have a
good night, man, Yeah, best of luck.
Speaker 3: Everyone, have a have a great weekend.
Speaker 1: And go Habs as always. Oh man, Brian, what a
way to end it there that Buster's package. Great stuff there,
Get Buster stuff at wager talk dot com of course,
great breakdown. And you know I told you before earlier
in the year, Brian, I have a tough time sometimes
like keeping it simple. And if you look at teams
like Ottawa, Buffalo and Columbus, the three of those teams,
you could have just played them on repeat for the
last two months and you could have just had a
ton of success. It's all about sometimes keeping it simple.
But great stuff there from Buster. We got some more
games to break down. Let's not waste any time here, Brian.
We've got Anaheim and Calgary to get to one playoff
team versus a non playoff team. But as I was
talking about on the show with Carmine, this is the
worst division by far in hockey, and a lot of
people have talked about how this is one of you know,
I've seen other sport podcasts starting to pick up on
how horrible the format is. For the playoffs. I even
stopped some like Barscool Baseball Podcast talking about yesterday because
it doesn't make any sense, like right now in the
in the West Western Conference, you would have the number
six and number seven seed playing each other in the playoffs.
That doesn't make any sense, you know. So, But when
you look at this matchup, Brian, how do you feel
about Ducks and Flames?
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is sort of like if you're a baseball
fan the AFC Central with the Tigers, Indians and this
year I think some of somebody are gonna break out.
They have a pretty good season there. But yeah, it's
it's about the way it's been and when they play
outside of the division, you have to you have to
know that. That's why I mentioned the teams in the West.
I gotta have to have a pretty good idea to
play a team from the sixth division and when they
become a favorite. And Anaheim in this game, it's about
a one thirty five favorite right now to one forty
some places. Anavieim's playing pretty pretty good hockey again is
of late, but they just won their last three games.
They went on the road and beat a pretty good
Utah team out West they're four and one. Beat that
game four one, they gave four to one. Then they
played Buffalo and that was a really exciting game and
they upset Buffalo. Actually Buffalo the hobbs team in hockey,
and they beat them six to five. And I thought
they would have a little bit of a letdown when
they played Vancouver last time out. They didn't. They came
to play, So that tells me they're focused in pretty well.
Here for Anaheim playing Calgary right now, and then they
got to go on the road and play the Edmonton Oilers,
so it's important games for them. Calgary is a team
that maybe we rode off too soon because they're playing
a lot better hockey now than they have in the past,
especially in this building. This is the fifth of a
six game homestand forum. They beat Saint Louis on the eighteenth.
Saint Louis team that has been very good since the
all since the Olympic break. They beat Florida, the champions
for the last couple of years. With a lot of
games under the belt, they're starting to wear out and
we saw that coming. We talked about that earlier in
the season. They beat Florida four to one to basically
put a fork in their season. Then they get the
Tampa Bay game. They get Tampa Bay, one of the
outest teams at home, and they beat Tampa Bay in overtime,
and of course I think they're going to have a
letdown last time they're out.
Speaker 3: I like the Kings.
Speaker 1: They beat the.
Speaker 2: Kings in a shootout. I hate the shootouts. Scott been
killing me all season along.
Speaker 1: It's the worst.
Speaker 2: It's terrible. And I was talking to some guys the
other day that are fringe hockey fans, they didn't even
realize in the playoffs, so you don't have to worry
about that because they continue to play overtime and so
they got excited. They go, I hate that overtime shit,
and so that now we got another another fan for
post season hockey. But after they beat me on the
twenty fourth is two days ago, I think there's a
little bit of value here on Calgary against Anaheim. The
ride's a little bit higher than what I thought it
was going to be. So if I'm going to play
this game, I would play the under. Its probably not
going to make my card. Too many other games I
like better today, But if you have any doubt, I
think what the value here on Calgary. I'm seeing some
players you're gonna get upwards of one to twenty seven
on the Calgary front Flames.
Speaker 1: I'll give you the side in this one, Brian, but
I'll take a look at the total here. You know,
when I'm a big fan of recent form when it
comes to goaltending and looking at the full season for
Devin Cooley, who's projected for today of course the West
Coast game, So we don't have starters. We love and
hate that we do this show so early. I wish
it was like baseball, which you just knew every day
roughly who those starters were going to be. But nine
to fifteen save percentage on the season for Cooley, but
last three games that turns into an eight eighty six
to eight percentage. So I love looking at these drastic
dips from the full season averaged to the last few games.
Average for him inspected goals against last handful of games
three point five to one. But listen to this for
Lucas Dustell, this this kind of cracks me up as
far as the analytics are concerned, Brian, His say percentage
the last three games is zero point nine to three zero,
which is respectable, right, not a lot of goals are
even going over nine these days or nine hundred expect
his goals against per game last three games is exactly
two on average. The expected goals against per game four
point three six. So it tells you all you need
to know about this Anaheim defense, you know, and that
bodes well for your underdog play, is that we actually
have the data telling us that Gustell is keeping them
in games. You know, the expected goals against four point
three six. But yet he's averaging only two goals against
per game, so he is superseding his numbers in a
way that we don't think is sustainable. So I'm going
to go with just the over because I think that
both teams in their own right are going to be
able to score goals. And it's so funny, Brian, because
I never used to care too too much about goaltending.
But what I do like to look at is a
drastic fall off from their season average and then in
their recent form over the past couple of games. Uh.
And sometimes you can take a look at the goalie's numbers,
like I said, for Anaheim's goalie, and you're like, Okay,
they're playing pretty well, but the defense is not playing
well at all, and there's only so many times you
can ask a goalie to stand on his head before
he falls on in his face. A couple of times,
I agree.
Speaker 2: It's uh, you always want to see how a goalie's
fair fairing right now because they're like they're like pitchers
in baseball or hitters or whatever. They get on a
hot streak. You know, they call the hot hand in
the NBA and that kind of thing. So I don't
believe that in the individual game, but it's it's something
to keep an eye on.
Speaker 1: If a guy's.
Speaker 2: Finding his groove and he's the goaltender, that's the most
important position in hockey. That changes your outlook a lot
of times.
Speaker 1: But sometimes you also want to ride a hot goalie
because they just can't stop winning and they end up,
you know, changing how they are a little bit. Never
forget that Jordan Bnnington run. He was rookie called up
and you know that was at twenty nineteen for the
Blues and they end up winning it. And you know,
a big guy Matt Murray for the Pittsburgh Penguins. Obviously,
you remember Marc Andre Fleury when he played for Vegas,
and Matt Murray was the one that kind of booted
him out of Pittsburgh because he took over in Pittsburgh.
And then when Pittsburgh realized they wanted to keep Murray,
they got rid of Flower and took him to Vegas.
And now Matt Murray plays in the AHL. He isn't
even an NHL goalie anymore. So he's got two Stanley
Cup rings. Brian doesn't even play in the NHL anymore.
It's like always that question, would you rather play a
few years in the in professional sports but win a
championship or have a twenty year career but never win.
It's that age old question. I guess the.
Speaker 2: Eli manning of the NFL mediocre career quarterback that wins championships.
Speaker 1: Hey, yeah, you're gonna do Yeah, exactly, all right, Edmonton
and Vegas. Speaking of Vegas, here, look, I got to
admit here, Brian, this team, there's no better way of saying.
This team has pissed me off lately, you know, and
luckily for me, I've stayed off them more. But I
did give them a chance, probably two or three more
times than I should have. And then we start going
against them. You know, we started asking ourselves should they
even be laying a price like this? And I know
you've had success. At least one or two times I've
heard you questioning why they're favored in a certain way. Look,
we keep talking about the division. I caught a part
of Puck Time yesterday where you were talking about the
Western Conference, but more specifically, it's this division that is
so weak. So now we have these two teams going together.
The good news is they both can't lose here, Brian,
what do you think about this one?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I don't know if I told the story on this
show yesterday, but there was a big gut together in town.
We're down on the strip. I was down there with Ski,
NBA basketball expert, Rob Veno college basketball expert, and TETs
Aransky pretty much an expert and everything.
Speaker 3: Just a trip.
Speaker 2: But we're down at the Arthhouse in Vegas and in
the nights round is supposed to be playing right there,
there were twenty five TVs. They didn't have the nights
game on any of the TVs. They were watching exhibition baseball.
So I turned to Ski because he's a local, and
I said, but he's thinking that he goes it's not
the same as it was a couple of years ago,
and I said no, I said, I sure hope Vegas
doesn't become one of those fair weather cities. But that
tells you people, you might Even my wife didn't want
to watch a game the other day, So people are
getting frustrated with this team. A lot of people don't
even want him to make the playoffs. At this point,
I'm feeling like we're Toronto. But yeah, it's they're not
playing well defensively. Yes, Hill is playing well, but that offense.
The last five games, they've averaged one goal of the
game and they're playing an Edmond team right now that
they're getting a little bit better defensively as the season ends.
Obviously they lost one of their key offensive players. But
the only way I'm looking at this game is either
to play Edmonton or the under, or maybe just Vegas
team total under, because Edmonton's a team They've already won
the first two games against Vegas this year. This series
has been strange ever since it started. Edmonton has dominated
the regular season, Vegas has dominated the playoffs. So if
this is your normal Vegas regular season game against Edmonston,
there's no way I can lay this number.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's just it's hard to imagine. But then sometimes Brian,
I try to ask myself, like, what are the book
makers thinking here? Because you never want to discredit the books,
but our job is to try and find those discrepancies
and when they're wrong. But I'll tell you for me
in this one, I'm going to look towards the under
and I think it's going to be a little bit
of a contrarian because you look at the oilers and
any game they play in we see electricity. But until
I start seeing a couple games in a row where
Vegas is just lighting up the score sheet, I think
they're going to want to put focus on defensive hockey too.
So I like the totals quite a bit today. Hard
not to take the dog in this one. I just think,
you know, Brufesser says it right here, Vegas has been
overpriced all year long, which is a very very good comment.
So look, this isn't going to make my card. But
at this point, until I see it, I'm not going
to bet it. And I don't think right now Vegas
is going to be lighting up the score sheet. There
was a time and place where Dori Feya was scoring
every game and Ichael was looking unbelievable. And these guys
have certainly slowed down a bit, that's for sure. So
and you know, Brian, look, I make my jokes online
and you know I'm a fan like ook. I don't
even live in Montreal. But obviously Montreal is a storied franchise.
But they haven't won anything since I was born. Pretty much.
Vegas won a championship a handful of years ago. But
what I'm saying here, and based on what I'm about
to say, I don't think you disagree with me much
because it sounds like you were going down the same
thing when I've talked with people about Vegas and the Nights,
and it was mostly people kind of rubbing it in
my face how good they were a couple of years ago.
I said, you really learn a lot about fans when
the team's not playing well, not as much about the
fans when the team is playing well. So we're gonna
learn a lot about how loyal the Vegas fan base is.
But the thing is, they have not been bad, Brian,
since they became a franchise. Like I was saying, yes,
I'm going away on May first, and I feel like
I've got I owe it to myself to drive or
fly to Montreal to see the playoffs because I've watched
them be horrible for the last eight years of my life, right,
so it's kind of like, you know, I have to
go watch them because I've like sat through that pain
of watch. Like I would get so excited every day
for a couple of years in a row to watch them,
and they would lose five too every game. So I
feel like I owe it to myself to watch now
in the playoffs, right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've I've been around a long time and Cleveland's
not had a lot of success in anything. So when
the Cavaliers were in the finals twice, I flew back
both times. I went San Antonio once when they lost
to the Spurs. But yeah, it's something you may never
see again. And you're a young guy. You got a
long time to go yet. But it's frustrating when you
were a team. That's why when the Cubs, you had
to cheer for the Cubs. When the Cubs started winning,
you got to cheer for these teams when they get
the chance. I'm going into the playoffs and hockey this year,
I'm cheering for all those teams that normally are not there,
the Buffalos, the Montreals, San Jose makes it that kind
of thing, So yeah, I'm excited Columbus. So yeah, I
like the underdogs going in the playoffs. I'm rooting for
him personally. I don't know if my money will be
on them because we've got to take every game individually,
but I'm excited for those fans of those teams.
Speaker 1: It's nice when you can mix it up right, And
that's It's funny because I always preach that the NHL
is a competitive league. But the funny thing is we
have seen Florida go to the Cup finals many years
in a row. But so that kind of defeats my
point I usually make. But the only thing I will
say is the number one overall pick, even though it's
a sport with twenty one players, is very, very impactful.
Like some people, Wayne Gretzky was arguing that Matthew Schaeffer
could win the Heart Trophy this year or the MVP. Yeah, yeah,
the MVP of the Year, because how important he was
to his team. Macln celbrainy what twenty years old. He
was the MVP of the San Jose Sharks, So it
does go to show that rebuilding does work in the NHL.
Speaker 2: I love it when you have the ability to turn
around your program in no time. Baseball does that. I
want to talk about this a little bit yesterday, so
I'll just touch on it now because it is basically
what we're talking about. If you were to look at
the teams before the season projected points, ninety points pretty
much is a pretty good season, luckily gets you into playoffs.
The five worst teams in the East Conference, Washington, New Jersey, Florida, Toronto,
and the New York Rangers were all expected to get
ninety points or more so they've all been very disappointing.
If you go out West, four of the eight teams
with the worst record were expected to score ninety points
or more so. It's the season I always talk about it.
I said, there's a lot of luck involved when it
comes to the NHL, A lot of luck involved when
comes to baseball and those of the games that you
can really make some good money on when you're betting underdogs.
If you're new to this, if you're new to baseball,
I would I would suggest paying more attention to the
underdogs because in football, if you're getting you know, a
really good team playing at home. You see lines of
seventeen points anymore in the NFL. You never used to
see that kind of thing. Those teams in a physical
game like that, they're not going to win many of
those games.
Speaker 1: Great point, Great point, Brian. And it's also important to
just keep up to date with current form because you're
popping in and out. You would have had no idea
that Oddawa was playing well again. Buffalo's playing well again.
You know, all of a sudden, San Jose was playing well.
Now they're not playing well anymore. So NHL and MLB
very much so. Current form type of sports. You need
to be able to know who's hot and who's cold.
Speaking of which, Carmine has been hot with his plays
of the day. It feels like almost all year long here, Brian.
So he's got one for us this time around, and
he's rocking with Tampa Bay minus the one and a
half goals. Look at that bank role he's built up,
earning himself some money and earning hopefully the viewers some
money as well. So Carmine, we saw him in the
live chat. We did not forget about you, carm minus
one and a half goals, the puck line for Tampa
against the Crack and what a fall off it was
for the Crack and Brian, this team, they had hopes
for the playoffs and they're not getting there. And you know,
they made the playoffs their first year they existed as
a franchise and ever since then it hasn't looked as good.
But best of luck to Carmine. Get his plays hockey,
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forward to that. And Carmen had an employment today, but
he'll be back with us again, all right, Brian, before
we wrap things up big day today, I'm sure you
know you already mentioned that package you have going, but
any final few words you want to.
Speaker 2: Say, Yeah, everything is up to day. We've got eight
plays actually, so if you want to buy a full
day thing, the one that Busher talked about, to buy three,
get three. We've got a five percent in the NCAA tournament,
the Big Dance tomorrow. We won both our other five
percent in the tournament. Were really excited, really had a
nice college basketball season and we've done very well in
this So yeah, if you're looking to get a really
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and I can't wait to get the hell out of here,
getting another video up for my clients, start watching some sportes.
Speaker 1: Hey, great working with you as always, Brian and I
have a good day, good luck. On the basis, I
got a West Coast baseball game up tonight and also
have a first five play up today, and of course
we're dealing with some twenty twenty five data, maybe some
spring training stuff as well. But I've been pretty deep
in work with looking at all the pitchers and all
the team stuff. You guys can get that should have
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So it looks like two or three plays and so
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