Speaker 1: What's up, guys.
Speaker 2: We have all kinds of Thursday NHL picks ready for you,
sides totals, team totals, props, all kinds of good stuff
right here on puck Time on wager Talk TV, myself,
Andrew McGinnis, Carma and Bianco. We've got Brian Leonard and
of course we've got Don Julio Buster is that.
Speaker 1: His middle name? Carm I'm not so sure. Yeah, how
are you, Karen?
Speaker 3: I'm good man. I went to sleep last night. I
wasn't feeling good. I went to sleep figuring I was
one in one in the NHL. I woke up and
I was two and oh in the NHL, kind of
like Matt Jay says in the chat there, Chicago Vancouver
a no sweat over. I had over six, it was
no score after forty minutes, and then somehow they found
seven goals while I was sleeping. Maybe I'm a mush
and I just needed to go to sleep in order
for that play to win. I'm gonna try it this week.
Dan Alexander are beloved and fearlessly and Producer is going
to give me his five circle picks, and I'm going
to sleep throughout all five games and he's going to
go five and oh, so we need to get him
that quarter win. So he makes one hundred and fifty
K and he's happier than a pig and mud. But
other than that, man it is we got a good
card of games guys to talk about today. The Wild
in the Canes, Andrew, you and I are going to
talk about that. In a couple minutes. Buster is going
to come on and do the Ducks and the Shark
the Stars. You and I will break down Tampa and Vegas,
and then we'll bring in Brian Leonard to get his
quick thoughts on that game before he breaks down the
Saint Louis Blues and the Buffalo Sabers. He picked the
marquee game of the night, the Saint Louis Blues and
the Buffalo Sabers to somehow discuss I don't know if
he lost the bet and said, Okay, I'm going to
have to do this game Saint Game parlay and a
pod play as it returns today. But with that said, Andrew,
what are we.
Speaker 1: Starting out last night? I gotta talk a little bit.
Speaker 3: Oh talk talk plenty of time, man.
Speaker 1: Forget about it, forget about it.
Speaker 3: How did you do.
Speaker 2: I went to oh to one, and Karen, we always
talk about that dreaded four to one lead when you
have an over, and this is why I always like
to play team totals. So I had the over six
in the Calgary game and it was for to one.
So at that point I was just happy it didn't lose,
because you and I always talk about how cursed that
for to one lead can be U And of course
they they still got an empty net goal, which I
was shocked about getting an empty net goal when they're
up for to one. So I hit the Washington Capitols
team total over three and a half halfway through the
game plus one twenty two. We got the Chicago Blackhawks
at a nice price. I let plus one to thirty Ballpark,
which is kind of nice against Vancouver, and uh yeah,
that push is never really a nice thing, but it's
not a loss, so you take it. It's better than
a loss, right the push a few? Yeah, that four
to one lead, man, it's never good with old Yes.
Speaker 3: Yeah. One of my good friends is in Vegas with
his wife for her birthday for four days and he's
been like, what's happy me? Asking me for like some
place I gave him a couple of plays along the way,
and he messages me and says, seriously, the Calgary Flames.
You're taking the Calgary Flames, how are they favored? I'm like,
I released them to my clients at one seventeen. I
need to get the win tonight. And I hope that
Nazine Cadri scores as well too, because it was like
his one thousandth game, and of course he scores a goal.
They win pretty comfortably. It's really weird with this Calgary team.
They win games five to one and then they get
blown out in some games. They're a hard team to
figure out. But I had had them figured out yesterday
and and then Ovechkin, man, our guy wash Redskins is
going to come into the chat and say, how do
you not talk about Ovechkin nine hundred goals? The first
player ever to score nine hundred goals in the NHL
and probably will go down as the only player whoever
scores nine hundred goals in the NHL. This guy has
been a machine his whole career. Congratulations ov absolutely fantastic.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 3: If this guy could last like another three years somehow,
like kind of like the yogur the army or yoga
effect over in Europe. He could hit a thousand goals.
It's possible.
Speaker 1: Will he get there?
Speaker 3: Unlikely? Possible, he could. He could get there. So we'll see, did.
Speaker 1: You see what? Did you see?
Speaker 2: What?
Speaker 3: Bennington trying to snipe the puck? No one has talked
to Bennington about it. Everyone is like, yeah, he tried
to steal the puck. Marty barn was on sports and
he's like, oh, and former goalie for the Buffalo Sabers.
He's like, oh, yeah, he was trying to. He's definitely
trying to steal the puck. He probably wanted to. When
people talk about a Vetchkins nine hundred goal, it's going
to go. He'll show them the puck that's in his
you know, his basement, on a trophy stand or what
have you. I don't get it. It's it's a milestone goal.
You give it to Avechkin.
Speaker 4: Uh and.
Speaker 3: Day. The Caps made him pay for trying to snipe
that puck. They scored a couple more goals on him
and chase them from the game. So what goes around
comes around. But congratulations to Ovechkin and the Washington Capitals.
Andrew the weird thing is. I'm watching the goalie the
goalie matchups for tonight because the Penguins, who Washington plays tonight,
they called up Sergei Miroshovs so he's playing. He's playing
for them down in the miners Ahl. He was Ahl
goaltender five and two record, won seventy three goals against
average nine thirty one say percentage down in the miners,
he might be ready. H he's being called up. Tristan
Jari is on injured reserves, so it's gonna be either
him or she loves uh? Did I pronounce that right?
She loves she loves so we'll see who goes for them.
And he thoughts before we get to this Canes game.
Speaker 2: Well, I hope it's she loves uh because that guy
right now, Karma she loves. He seems to be He's
the Forest Gump box of chocolates metaphor, like he he
is one goalie one day and one goalie the next.
But he's kind of a hot and cold guy. So
I kind of hope. Look, this is the thing is
that people are going to talk about, uh that that
that celebratory night for Washington. The Alexandro of Etchkin milestone. Oh, well,
they're gonna be having too many beers and celebrating. Alexandrovechkin
probably has beers every night before he plays a game
at this age. Okay, he always said, we've heard the stories.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: The way I look at it is the team had
played since Saturday, They've been well rested. They had a
couple bad games in a row. Look, it's hard for
us to keep fading this Pittsburgh team. But I think
that we're gonna see Washington start rolling here. And I'll
tell you what. Bennington, he's got to be frustrated because
remember when he went to the Four Nations, the goalie
he looked like in that overtime karm all those saves,
we were cheering for Canada so hard.
Speaker 1: Where is that guy?
Speaker 2: Well, it's like I was talking on my show last
night about it is like it's no secret that some
of the better goalies in the league seem to play
on the best teams, and the worst goalies in the
league seemed to play on the worst teams. Like that's
why we use analytics. Because Darcy Kemper won a Stanley
Cup with the Avalanche. All right, I think any goalie
in the league would have won that year with the Avalanche.
No offense to him, but it doesn't mean because Bennington's
numbers aren't good this year doesn't mean he's not a
good goalie anymore.
Speaker 1: He's just on a bad team right now.
Speaker 3: I don't know. It sounds like you took a shot
at it at him right there at Darcy Comfort. But
with that said, we got to get go. We had
a lot of stuff on the show. But I will
say this my party shot, which is probably going to
piss off a few people in the chat, and I
get it. It's okay. This is what I'm here for,
is stir it up. My buddy Corey, who's in Vegas
right now. I gave him some cash before he left.
He went to Circa and he put down a bet
for me at Circa because plus one seventy I couldn't
give it up. I just could not pass it up.
Team Canada to win the gold medal at the Olympics
plus one seventy. Guys, Come on, let's get real here.
No one is beating the Canadian team in the Olympics.
It should be and I hope it is a US
Canada final, but nobody's being the Canadians you guys lift
the Stanley Cup each and every year because fifty five
percent of your rosters are Canadian players. So with that said,
I think I've pissed everybody off. Hit that like Button
Andrew Kaines one ninety two the wild plus one fifty six.
The totals hit sits here at six and a half.
How are you playing this one?
Speaker 2: I love the way you ended that. I think I
pissed off enough people. It's time to move on to
get to the games here.
Speaker 1: I like it.
Speaker 2: Well, look, you know Carolina coming into this one off
a pretty dominant win over the Rangers, three nothing, shutting
them out, and this Rangers team just looks awful at home.
Can we even talk talk about it being a good
victory for the Hurricanes If this Rangers team just continuously
puts up doughnuts at home, They've they've looked just abysmal.
Speaker 1: But this Hurricanes team is gonna take this game.
Speaker 2: Seriously because you look at their loss against the Bruins
two to one, their loss against the Night six, three,
they lost against the Stars. You know this has been
an up and down team, but they've also had a
pretty tough schedule. I'd say over their last five to
six games overall season, it hasn't really been the easiest
start to this schedule for this Carolina Hurricanes team. Now,
when I look at Minnesota, if we're betting straight up
just on current form, this team has not been playing
up to expectation. But if you care about just the
w's and you don't care about who a team has defeated,
you look at the Minnesota Wild They have found away
in their last two games, putting up five on the
Canucks and getting it done against Nashville in overtime.
Speaker 1: Now, when I look at this.
Speaker 2: Game here, Karl, I think that we all know how
great this team is over there in Carolina. The question
I kind of ask ourselves here is is this price
a little bit too hot? When I look at this number,
like you're gonna tell me I'm gonna get plus one
fifty five plus one sixty on a team like Minnesota here,
I think this is a ultimate by low spot. Look,
Carolina has been struggling a little bit with their consistency levels.
They're deal with injuries with Seth Jarvis being out. They
have some defensive issues as well. Minnesota has a lot
of ground to make up, and I know we're talking
November sixth right now. There's lots of time left in
this season for them to make up. But I'm going
to start the show off with a little bit of
a live dog here. I think Minnesota is in this game,
and if you think it's going to be a competitive game,
you take the plus one sixty. So Carolina is not
an easy place to play by any means. But Minnesota
has not met expectations this season. And then they go
ahead and rattle off to victories, and before anybody beats
me to it, I get it. They have not beat
the most exciting teams by any means. I'm not gonna
Vancouver and Nashville. Look me, you and Dan could score
a goal on Nashville. But at the end of the day,
this is still a win and this is still your friend,
Mo Mentum, and I think that's going to carry into
this game from Minnesota, and maybe they stay competitive.
Speaker 1: So maybe you.
Speaker 2: Pull the plus one and a half number here, plus
one half bet on that, plus one and a half
half bet on the money line, maybe a team total,
whatever it might be. But I do think Minnesota it's
definitely kind of a bi low spot here on this team.
So I've tried taking more underdogs this season. We cashed
underdog yesterday on Chicago. We got d money in here
telling me to never fade the Hurricanes at home, and
I think that that is certainly baked into the cake
here with this number, and that's why I'm getting plus
one sixty cards. So I'm interested in this price here
on the dog and hopefully Minnesota can keep playing better hockey.
Speaker 3: Yeah, first off, I think I pissed off TJ. Salvador.
He's like, much like your customer appreciation play on Tuesday.
Plus one seventy on Canada is toast well, TJ. Sometimes
you are the hammer, sometimes you are the nail. I've
been the hammer more times than I've been the nail
in the NHL season this year, So will take that.
But Andrew, you know, I get it. I understand the
deal with the Wild. You know, they've won three of
the last four meetings against Carolina in Carolina. But I
think the Canes have you know, Knes were playing well,
but they were allowing a lot of goals, and they
did the same thing last season. If you look at
Carolina's start last season, their first twelve to fourteen games,
they were allowing a lot of goals and then started
to put it together, started to tighten up. Their last
three games, they've allowed a total of four goals. They've
gone two in one. They lose a two to one
game in the Boston that is the only lost. They're
three and one at home on the season, and the Wild,
you know, they've lost what for their last five on
the road. It's hard for me to make a case
on the Wild unless you want to look at like
back data and say, okay, well, you know the Wild
have won three of the last four games in Colorado
and in Carolina. Maybe Carolina takes them lightly. Do I
want to lay the one ninety two. I don't because
it's out of my price range, and my clients know
that that's out of my price range. I would take
the Canes in regulation. You can get him at one
anywhere from one twenty to one thirty. I've looked at
different books overnight and this morning, and you can get
them there. And I'll explain that during my pod at
the end of the show. Andrew So that said Canes
in Regulation for me, and we're going to bring on
as you call him, Don Julio to talk the Ducks
and the Stars area is he's not even wearing red.
He didn't even do the top button on of his shirt.
He thinks he's like Don Johnson and Miami Vice or whatever.
I'm not that shirt.
Speaker 5: No, but come on, come on, man, I'm getting ready
for Mexico.
Speaker 1: Carl, you haven't been in Mexico.
Speaker 4: Canada.
Speaker 3: We're expecting snow. We're expecting snow on Sunday, so it's
a good time for you to get out. Andrew or sorry,
I agree, Bluster. How you doing? First of all?
Speaker 6: Yeah, doing well, Carmine, doing well.
Speaker 5: Everything, everything's fine, per se, except for I'm still in Canada.
But besides that, that's you know, sometimes life doesn't let
you do everything you want to do right away. But
soon enough, December one, we're open to be back in Mexico.
Speaker 3: So yeah, well, as part of the free trade agreement
between Canada and Mexico, we have shipping you down there
and we're just taking back a box of avocados in return.
I think that's a great deal. I think for sure,
Dallas Stars.
Speaker 2: A player option, one year player option. We can sign
back next summer if you want.
Speaker 3: Okay, Dallas Stars minus one eighty one the Ducks plus
one forty eight the exciting Ducks plus one forty eight.
Total sits are at six. Are the Stars shooting Ducks
in this one? Or are we feasting on I don't
know where I'm going here. Just give us a winner.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's what I'll do.
Speaker 3: Thank you, Andrew, Thank you for leaving me hanging there.
Speaker 6: You know what I mean, Like.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna let car bury himself here.
Speaker 5: It's okay, Well I was enjoying it, actually, tell you
the truth. But okay, the Ducks are definitely playing, and
they're playing some great hockey, and they're the definite surprise
of the NHL this year, no doubt about that. They're
on a six and one run, and it's it's not
like they're beaten like the lower teams of the NHL.
They beat the Stanley Cup champions twice, they beat a
very good Detroit team, I believe, and very impressive win
against the New Jersey Devils. Now Dallas are also playing.
They're probably their best hockey this season, but it seems
like they just they play enough to win. For their
last seven games have actually gone to overtime, including we
had the crap shoot winner on Tuesday with Dallas, and again,
what we're doing today, and I'll get to it, is
that we're gonna take that crap shoot right out of it.
You know, don't like the coin flips in the NHL,
so but I'm just gonna do it. Run a few
little stats here. In thirteen games that Dallas has played
this year, they have won only one game by two goals.
Anaheim they have only lost two games by two goals,
and that was right that one was the first game
of the year and one was like two games after that.
This Anaheim team has been playing great hockey ever since.
So last night, and I don't do this, I don't know.
I bet yeah, in all the years on the show,
if I've done this a handful of times and even
all season, just don't like to because you have to
lay juice here. But we got last night Anaheim on
the pucklot minus one forty five. So we gave that
right away out to clients. I think that's a really
good play right now. I see it's there's been a
lot of people this morning thinking the same idea as me.
Because Anaheim is getting better, getting better on the money line,
they're getting bet on the puck line, but you can
still find it around one fifty five one sixty the
last time I looked. So that will be my play
for this game. Is Anaheim. We actually do like I said,
we actually can see Anaheim winning this game, but we
also believe this is going to be another It could
end up going to that coin flip again the way
these two teams have been playing so and we want
to take that out of there. So we will play
Anaheim plus one and a half on the puck line.
As for the total, of course we'll go through that.
I find this very similar as Tuesday's game as we
talked with that because all over the place, I know
Carl I mentioned it was six over twenty.
Speaker 6: I believe I.
Speaker 7: See six over twenty five.
Speaker 5: But I also see a lot of markets with six
and a half under thirty. So as I said Tuesday,
you want to bet accordingly depending on really like the
over the under. Now Anaheim been really a goalscoring machine.
They actually are number one in the NHL in goal
scored per game. Now Attonder will be back in net
tonight after he had a little baby there, I guess.
And even though the last two games.
Speaker 7: Went over for the Stars.
Speaker 5: They went seven games before that to the under, so
there's that to think about when.
Speaker 7: These clubs get together. The last nine games are six.
Speaker 6: And three to the under.
Speaker 7: But I really like the way this Anaheim team's playing.
Speaker 5: I guess it'll come down to if you want to
bet this total, do you think Anaheim will take their
type of game to Dallas or worth Dallas being at home,
but that last change, take their game to Anaheim.
Speaker 7: Like Dallas to do that, it's an under.
Speaker 6: If you like.
Speaker 5: Anaheim to open this up and have Dallas play open hockey,
it's an over for us.
Speaker 6: Got to pass. It's just really tough total to bit.
Speaker 5: We passed the total and we will take Anaheim plus
a goal and a half on the puck line.
Speaker 3: All right, love to hear it's a buster in which
you obviously the best of luck.
Speaker 1: Buster.
Speaker 3: It is the semifinals of the Great Cup. Are you
putting on that leather helmet of yours from when you
played back in the forties and going to watch the game.
Speaker 5: Actually, it's funny you say that, because of life get involved. Unfortunately,
our good friend mister Rob Braley was kind enough to
invite me to a private suite for the Hamilton Tiger
Cats game, but unfortunately other obligations may have had me passing.
But I will have I believe I will have three
plays on these games coming up. Very looking forward to
the FELL playoffs and the Great Cup will be in
Winnipeg on the sixteenth of November. So yes, definitely, definitely
will not bring out the brown helmet, but I might
might have needed it if I went to that private
box with mister Briley.
Speaker 3: It's it is. It is very nice of him to
to invite you to a private box. I'm just checking
my cell phone here and I don't see a single
message for him or a text message inviting me.
Speaker 5: But right now, I have known the guy for about
forty years, Carmine, so maybe I just have just knowing.
Not much up on you, that's for sure, not anymore
now that now that you want them all that big
us money, uh back back a couple of years ago,
so you know, so you are a little bit ahead
of me. But I'm kind of sure. It's shocked that
he didn't call you. Maybe he thought you had a
TFC game.
Speaker 6: To go to or something.
Speaker 3: Yep, yeah, by order him a case of scotch that
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Speaker 6: You'll be glad you did. And as always, guys, thanks
for having me on. Appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Good day.
Speaker 3: I've always love having you on Buster Save travels back
to Mexico for you. We look forward to having you
on the show with that Pablo Escobar or Wi Fi
that you have each and every year where we can
better to hear you. But with that said, dude, have
a great weekend and we'll talk later.
Speaker 6: Man you guys as well. Take care guys, Andrew.
Speaker 3: We got Brian coming up next, but before before that,
you and I are going to talk Vegas and then
we'll bring him in and get his thoughts on the
game as well too. Someone told ask am I taking
first period Vegas over. I'm not too sure on this
one because Tampa isn't lighting it up as of late.
Minus one thirty for Vegas plus one o eight for Tampa.
I want to take Tampa on this game. I'm trying
to find an excuse not to take Tampa Bay in
this game. Plus one O eight. I like them in
this spot, Andrew, convince me, convince me that I should
not be taking Tampa Bay in this spot.
Speaker 2: I can't convince you, because I like Tampa too. I
don't really want to convince you.
Speaker 1: The other way.
Speaker 2: I'd prefer to just keep backing the side that we
both like in this one. Look, when it comes down
to it here with this Tampa Bay Lightning team number one,
I've started to be a little more impressed with them lately.
We've seen them really really pick it up. And don't
get me wrong, we know they're on the road. We
know this team has kind of a tough start to
the season, and they're in kind of cruise control right now,
beating the Ducks, beating the light the Golden Knights in
the last meeting, beating the Preds, beating the Stars, beating
the Mammoth. But as far as this road trip is concerned,
you know, you start that off with a win against
the Mammoth, but you drop that game against the Avalanche.
This is going to be a motivated Lightning team here.
And I'll tell you what. You've got a Vegas team
coming off a gamecarm that, even though it was one nothing.
That was about the easiest most walk through skate behind
your back with your hands and don't even try all
game long. This game that they played against the Red Wings,
if John Gibson didn't stand on his head, it would
have been five to nothing. Vegas, I think that you're
going to catch the Lightning being the more motivated team here,
and I know the Lightning are playing well right now,
but they want to get back up there at the
top of that Atlantic Division standings and road trips.
Speaker 1: Are where you do it. Road trips are where you
can bank those points.
Speaker 2: And when I go over to the trustee sites at
money Puck or at Natural statug or some of these
great websites that we like to use, I look at
the goal differential and I like what I'm seeing from
this Tampa Bay Lightning team. The thing is, with this
Tampa team, it's not like they're expected goals for have
been that stand out for me this season. It's been
the expected goals against that I've been the most impressed
with this season. They're number four and expected goals against
and Vegas is right there next to them. But if
you can bind this Vegas offense right now with their defense,
how they're playing with the goaltending stepping up a little bit.
I like them as an underdog, and I like a
lot of underdogs actually on today's slate, and I feel
like this is one that I'm going to back. I
feel like the past couple of games for Vegas, even
though the scores might not indicate it, and well, you
know what, maybe we can get Brian's take. I don't
feel like this gold Knights team has been challenged that much.
And the funny thing is they've been playing against really
good teams. You know, I feel like this is a
team that's probably gonna come in and I think out
work the Golden Knights. They're coming off a smooth victory
against the Detroit Red Wings. I like this spot for Tampa.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they've, like Andrew, they've been playing. They started the
season pretty much inconsistent, but you look at some of
their games when they put together that five game win streak,
and you know, they beat a Ducks team for three,
then they beat the Vegas Golden Knights in ot so
some people might be looking at and we always talk
about it like the rapid revenge spot in Vegas turning
the tables on them. But then they allow two to Nashville,
one to Dallas, and then a couple to Utah who've
been lighting it up as well too. And when you
lose one, it wasn't a bad one. It was to
the Colorado Avalanche in Colorado, where the Avs are a
very good team, and you lose that game three to two.
You go back to that game in Tampa Bay between
Vegas and Tampa Bay, and the analytics for that one
pretty much matched the final score. Final score two to one.
Analytics in that game were two point nine expected goals
for Tampa one point seven for Vegas in all situations.
So with that said, there were full marks for the win.
And I don't mind taking plus one awight here. They
were favored in that game at home. You're gonna have
a plus one oweight here. Two very good teams. I
could see the Tampa sweep over the Vegas Golden Knights.
But we'll get the final word from none other than
mister Golden Knights himself. The shot of Bailey's and Everyone's coffee,
Brian Leonard.
Speaker 4: I am, I'm wondering why Andrew is wearing a camel
camouflage shirt against a white background. We can still see you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was hoping you couldn't.
Speaker 4: I was hoping maybe you had a buster's old background
right behind you. Then that would have freaked car Mine
out something awful.
Speaker 2: My background has been so boring these couple couple of
weeks here, Brian, I had to spice it up a
little bit here with at least got going on.
Speaker 3: It makes me think he's in a penitentiary or something.
And they allow him like an hour to do shows
and right, so it's just like, all right, get back
to yourself.
Speaker 4: Getting back to the hockey game. We'ven have a lot
of fun on the show. I've seen that you've you've
done that so far, but I I prefer the under
in this game. And one of the reasons is if
you've watched the nights when their starting goalie has been out,
and I found out today he's going to continue to
be out for a while. They've got two young goalies,
but they've been very good. And when you have to
protect your goalies, you were less inclined to try to
score goals. Andrew talked about this on the game that
they played the other day against Detroit. Once Vegas got
that lead, that won nothing lead you knew, well, you
didn't know, but you had a pretty good feeling that
they were not going to give up any goals the
rest of the way. And I think that's the way
this is going to be played. It's very similar to
the way that first game in Tampa was played. It
was a two to one overtime win for Tampa and
both teams played excellent defense. I would expect more of
that today. You're getting There's still come down to five
and a half at a few places, but you can
still catch six at a lot of places and seven
goals to beach it with these two defenses. You had
mentioned a Carmine how good these these teams have been
on expected goals against. That to me is the way
to play this game. Vegas is playing with rapid revenge
from that road trip that they did not play well
in and they've got Florida coming up again this week,
and that's the other team they lost on that road trip.
So I spy a lot of low scoring games here
in Vegas during this run. They got Anaheim, I believe,
coming up this week and another team playing really really
good hockey, so I expect defense to be the key
tonight in that game.
Speaker 3: All right, braying with his thoughts to close up the
Tampa and Vegas game, and you're gonna break down the
one of the best games of the night, the Saint
Louis Blues and the Buffalo Savers. The Savers favor Yes,
the Savers are favored. One thirty six plus one twelve
is a take back on the Blues. The total sits
here at a juicy six and a half. How are
you playing this one?
Speaker 4: I appreciate all your excitement you gave everybody by telling
on my head the worst game to talk about, but
I don't care what game we're talking about. Is we
can make some money, and I think this is a
good chance to make some money here. I've had a
nicer idea about Saint Louis this week. I pay him
at home the other day. Guys, Edmonton got the win
played against him yesterday and Washington got the win. I
think I got another winner for him here, Saint Louis Blues.
If you take a look at the teams in the NHL,
the teams with the worst run to excuse me, worst
goal differential, it's the Saint Louis Blues. And it's not
even close. The next closest is Calgary at minus thirteen.
Saint Louis is minus twenty one. Yet they played eight
games at home and are only six games on the road.
They're coming off that game yesterday, the exciting game in
Washington and Bennington. I thought he did it as a joke.
I don't know him personally. He was funny. He made
the national news. It's good for hockey, regardless of the
reason why he did it. But they did pull him
early in that game. He did not play well, so
I would expect him to still be on the ice.
But he's not the same goalie as Andrew mentioned that
he has been in the past. Saint Louis's defense has
been her redous on the season. Then given up fifty
nine goals in fourteen games. The next closest is what
fifty four, So yeah, it's they've just been terrible defensively.
Now they're going on the road in the second of
a back to back situation, and I believe it's their
third game in four days as well. Yes it is,
and then they get to come home and play four
games back in Saint Louis. They play Seattle, Calgary, Philadelphia
and the Vegas Knights. A very good chance for them
to win three of those four games and get back
in to the talk of possibly making the playoffs with
this team. If you remember last year, they struggled early
on and they got hot at the end, and they
were a dangerous team to make the playoffs. And they're
a dangerous team and it's very much similar to that.
I don't trust the Saint Louis team right now. When
they won two days ago, they're playing with a seven
I believe a seven game losing streak. Edmonton was coming
in Edmonton, done nothing on the road well, and we
got the victory. Then they played in Washington. Washington completely
dominated them yesterday. And to expect them to compete here,
I just don't agree with it. Buffalo is only down
two net goals on the season. They're playing much better
now than they had in the past. You go back
Buffalo's last ten games, They've only lost one game in regulation.
This team is slowly and they're sort of like Andrew's shirt.
Nobody sees them right now. They're a camouflage and I
think there's a lot of value on them here going
against the team in a back to back bad situation.
After this game, for Buffalo. They got to go on
the road and play Carolina, Utah, Anaheim, excuse me, Colorado
and Detroit. This is a must win game for the Buffalo.
Sabers and Buffalo in a must win situation over the
years probably not been that good. You would know more
than us on that regarding car Mine. But I think
this is just a really good spot. It was it
was at one twenty five yesterday before the game had
played the overnight look ahead. Now you're getting it. You
still catch a couple of one twenty fives, but the
must has gone up is one thirty five off off
of the loss. This this is a good spot for Buffalo.
I'm gonna lay it with the host here.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree with you, Brian. You know the staple
for the Blues this has always sort of been their
defense is very good and that helps the goalies. But
I don't think it has been and it's it's it's
been a dismal season for Bennington and Hoffer. It's showing
a haffer like as expected for for tonight. I don't
know if that changes just because Bennington got pulled last night.
It remains to be seen. But you talked about like
the you know, three games and four nights.
Speaker 6: I just.
Speaker 3: There's no confidence right now. I'm betting the Blues. You
just don't see anything that makes you want You're either
on Buffalo or you're off the game. If you can
come up for a reason, Andrew, can you come up
with a reason to play the Saint Louis Blues tonight,
I certainly can't.
Speaker 1: I mean, the only reason you could.
Speaker 2: Look at it is that they couldn't have looked shittier
through the first forty minutes of that game. So if
you're someone that likes to take bounce back spots, that
would be one to look at. Like a lot of times,
you know, we would say some athletes would would rather
correct their mistakes the next night on the second half
of back to back than have to sit and you know,
sit and stew for the next four nights and not
play a game. So some guys do like to use
that motivation and anger and just be able to get
right back on track the next night. So that's really
the only thing I could say. I'm right there. I
agree with the Buffalo side in this one. I talked
about it on my show last night, and I was
kind of thinking that same Buffalo side. And the only
thing if I was to not get there would be
the just the quotes out of Brayden Schen the captain of.
Speaker 1: Saint Louis Blues.
Speaker 2: He pretty much he went to the media and just
it was the ultimate own up to everything, and we
were awful, We were embarrassing, we were pathetic.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: We owe it to the owners, we owe it to
the coaches, we owe it to the fans. So the
only thing is, though, guys, when a player says that,
you can say whatever you want, but it doesn't really
mean it's going to reflect on the score sheet and
into the game the next day. So my two cents,
I think we're going to get some goals in this game.
I just don't think that they have it in them
to make it a low scoring game. If they're going
to show any kind of pride, they're going to score
some goals. But I don't think it's going to stop
Buffalo from scoring. That's kind of and and Hoffer in
that I like the over. That's my two cents.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And we have confirmed this as far as the
Savers are concerned, we have If I see confirmation it's
upl and net or as TJ. Salvator says, can Karan
pronounce his name? Of course? I can pronounce Uko, Peca,
lukenin Yeah, man, I can announce. I can pronounce some
of them. It's some of the other names, the Russian
ones or whatever that I completely butcher. But come on, man,
you pel I'm good with Brian side.
Speaker 1: Come on.
Speaker 3: A nice little run for you, and you got a
five percent play up in the NHL tonight, tell us
about it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we're in a nice round twenty four and eleven.
In college football. I went to Akron University. I know
the MAC the last two days. Gave up MAC plays
Toledo yesterday, huge easy winner, both games, reasy winners. At
Washington obviously in that game. Five percent playing play going
today in the NHL. It's a game that I really
like the situation on and I think we're getting tremendous
value in it. Very similar to the play I just
used with Buffalo. So that's up there right now. I
mentioned the college football obviously, Busker talked about that, so
I won't get back into it, but really excited about
the weekend. It's been a terrific run for US Ober
all four straight in the NHL. This week number one.
In the last three days, I think number two to
last seven. Everything's going really well. Can I complain at all?
But a big five percent going in the NHL today,
And I'm saying things very clearly as they say. And
I was still able to find Andrew in this shirt.
So yeah, everything's going very well.
Speaker 3: You know you don't want to hear me singer what
you said. I'm seeing things clearly now. I was gonna
get into that song. I can see clearly now.
Speaker 1: You know, I lost.
Speaker 2: Much when I take any shots at people's geography. But
when I say I live in the East Coast of Canada,
this is how people seem to think that we live.
And I live in an igloo, and I have an
animal driving me around on a sled and I hunt
for my food. So I might as well start playing
the part. Nobody thinks that East Coast of Canada there's
any type of civilization, and this is how we dress
every day, so I might as well start trying to
play the part here. This is I have thermo pants,
cameo underwear, I'll wear a cameo hat. I might as
I'll start trying to fit the stereotype here of an Eastern.
Speaker 3: As our beloved, our beloved Missy in the Detroit office,
as Andrew lives in Narnia, so way out there where
we just don't know what is going on. But uh, Brian,
for the life of me, and you're you're different before
I let you go. No, not different in the sense
of different, but as far as like food goes. Andrew
lives on the East Coast, on the East Coast. How
does a guy who lives on the East Coast not
like seafood and lobster? Like literally, you can reach out
of your window while you're driving near the water and
pick up a lobster off the side of the road.
It is unbelievable how a guy in the East Coast
does not eat lobster.
Speaker 4: I have never been to that part of Canada. I'd
love to go. What months can you wear shorts? Or
you live right now?
Speaker 1: Brian, I will tell you it is. We probably have.
Speaker 2: Less snow and less cold weather than where KRM and
pres live. It's just more wind and rain and stuff.
Like I'd almost prefer snow than like the slush and
rain because we're right along the coast right so we
don't get as much heavy snow. So it's probably the
same as carm I would say, But it just started
to click, karme will will agree with me. It just
started to click where it's just cold now, like it's
not like it's horrible. But it went from like, oh,
you can wear shorts on a hoodie to you have
to wear a big jacket walking around. So I am
the first to tell you I love where I'm from,
but I hate being cold and that will never change.
And karm I gotta ask you because we're getting off talpic,
but I gotta ask, do you think it's.
Speaker 1: Possible for me to be able to change that? Like?
I actually trust me.
Speaker 2: I want it like every year at family reunions, like
we have all the table set up and I just cannot.
I don't like lobster, I don't like crap. Do you
think it's possible for me to eventually get there?
Speaker 3: Absolutely? My youngest brother, my youngest brother, when I got married,
I rented I flew a bunch of people down to
Atlantis in the Bahamas, and we got married there on
the beach, Paradise Beach, and we had an outdoor buffet.
I had them grilling lobster tails. My brother had never
eaten lobster before. He was my best man. I said,
you got to try the lobster. He tried it and
then ended up eating like six lobster tails. They weren't huge,
but he ate six of them and now he eats lobster.
So there you go with that, said Brian, best of
luck on your five percent play, and we will move
on and we will see you next week on Puck Time,
so I appreciate it. Andrew the Pres he'll be away
all of next week, so it's gonna make some of
those people on the show in the chat happy. Brian
will be doing double duty. Pres also has a five
percent play. He asked me to mention it. I don't
know what the play is, but you can head over
to wager Talk and pick it up on his page
and give him some support. He's he's he's turned started
to turn his NHL season around, as he says, and
he's on a nice little run. So best of luck
to him. My pod play Andrew, and then I will
send it over to you for the same game partly
and to close out the show or else we're going
to run over Andy Lang and wager Talk today. My
pod is going to go back to that Canes game.
You know, I like the Canes. I don't want to
lay it one ninety two and take him to winning regulation.
I think they're starting to play better. They're a very
good team at home until the Wild sort of turned
their season around. I just can't see a reason why
the hat sorry, why the Wild are a live bet
at plus one p fifty six. I'm taking the Canes
in regulation minus one twenty and that's basically about they're
all flat two hundred dollars beats, so that's two hundred
to win, about one sixty seven, I believe, and that'll
take us back over the five k and we'll get
ready for a big weekend. A couple of gays, A
couple of plays up in Europa League for me this afternoon,
and then two plays up in the NHL two and
oh sweep for my clients last night. It's been a
it's been a good start to the NHL season. We're
gonna try and keep it going, so you can over
my page one day. All Axis will pick those all up,
and I'll have an NFL play for tonight as well,
Andrew to send it over to you for a same
game parlay but before you do, for our man TJ. Salvator,
who is a New Jersey Devils fan, and they played
the Montreal Canadians tonight, can you give us some quick
thoughts on that game?
Speaker 2: Yeah, Carl, We've got two quick games to mention. I'll
tell you the Montreal Canadians. I like the under in
that game. And I hate to say it, but I
actually think the Devils are the spot as well going
against my Montreal Canadians. But the ABS gave up three
goals in the first three minutes of their game against
the Philadelphia Flyers will be the story. They talked about
how poor their defensive effort was out the gate, they
talked about their transition game not being good. I think
defense is the way to go. The New Jersey Devils
have actually owned the Canadians though in series history, five
to one their last six. But a handful of those
word defensive battles, and we know how good the Devils
are as far as their forwards playing defense, and their
goaltending right now has been pretty good as well. So
I do lean towards the under, but I also like
the New Jersey Devils. Unfortunately, just quickly here, we've got
this comment, why is Ottawa favorite or Boston in Boston?
Is it a trap or sweet revenge? We've been seeing
this comment quite a bit. I'll put my two cents here.
I like the Ottawa Senators in this one. One of
my biggest reasons for it is I love backing teams
on rest. I backed the Capitals on rest yesterday. We're
backing the Senators on rest today if you decide to
play them. They have not played since Saturday and they
lost to their division rivals, the Canadians, four to three.
I think it's a good spot to back the Senators
despite some injury off going on. There no fancy graphic
for you guys today, but we just have this to
look at. This is plus three toh eight. We want
to get back in the win column. We won that
ten to one pick earlier in the week and we
haven't won the same game parlay since.
Speaker 1: Speaking of Ottawa, let's go to Ottawa right now.
Speaker 2: Tim Stutsla anytime point, Drake Batherson, any time point, both
guys on the top line, both guys on the power
play unit. Let's go to Sam Reinhart and Carter Verheggy,
two second line players for the Florida Panthers. Florida off
a game where they got absolutely waxed by the Anaheim Ducks.
Speaker 1: They're gonna be in bounced back mode against the LA Kings.
Speaker 2: I don't really like LA's defense right now, and I
don't like their defensive core whatsoever. I think these two
guys will get on the score sheets, So shop around, guys,
find the best prices available. Plus three toh eight. We
don't have to be greedy. We don't have to get
ten to one, twenty to one. Nice a little plus
three to eight, same game, parlay, two games, four picks.
Let's cash these tickets. Two and oh night for me,
yesterday would have loved to be three and zero. We
did have one push, so we'll move on to today.
But looking forward to this card to have one four
percent best bet. The rest of the plays will be
three percent or two percent. But I'm feeling pretty good
about this one. And make sure you guys are tuning in,
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