Speaker 1: Welcome to puck Time for the twenty twenty five twenty
twenty six NHL season. Right here on wager Talk TV,
myself Andrew McGinnis and carmin Bianco. You can catch us
every single weekday right here, eleven a m. Eastern breaking
down games, looking at sides, totals, props, same game parlays,
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We want to hear from you, guys. We want to
hear from all the comments, and we look forward to
cash and tickets with you all season long. We have
three games to break down here today. We're gonna look
at all kinds of stuff, all kinds of little situations, props,
and all kinds of stuff that goes into tonight's games.
And towards the end of the show, you guys ask
us any questions in the live comments, we'll put them
up on the screen and we'll do our best to
answer them. I got to bring in my partner in crime,
mister Carmi and Bianco. What's up, carm How are you?
Speaker 2: Oh man, I'm super excited the NHL. Finally it kicks off.
This is the best time of the year. Andrew sports
like everything is there, NHL kicking off, the NFL is
in full gear. The baseball playoffs are going on in
the Blue Jays and the Yankees. Tonight, college football, the
World Cup right around the corner. Everything is there basketball
and then college college basketball starts. Everything is there. What
a time, as they say, what a time to be alive.
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You guys spoke last year and talked about the fact
that you guys wanted to hopefully get more games covered.
So this is how we're gonna do it, Andrew and I.
Every single day, we're gonna break down three games and
then we're going to bring in guests, sometimes one, sometimes
two on a show Busters Away this week, but Pres
and Brian will be on Thursday show. They'll come on
one at a time. Each one will break down a
game and you get five games broken down for the
big Thursday card, our six and sixty returns. Andrew's gonna
have a same game parlay segment that goes on all
season long. Hopefully we make some money there. And I'm
gonna have a bank roll not a bankroll challenge, basically
a bank roll Play of the Day every single day,
win or lose, you guys are going to see the
stats up on the screen on how that is doing.
It will normally be like two percent of the bank
roll and we will try and hit some winners. You
want to fade, you want to follow, or just sit
back and entertain yourselves by watching the show and the games.
I've got it for you. So we got you covered
and we're gonna have a great time. And then once
I always talk about swag, Andrew, and then we're gonna
get going. Once this dumb postal strike is done north
of the border, we'll be doing some swag giveaways. Every
it seems like every year, just before the Christmas, the
last couple of months, they go on strike, the ruined
small businesses. But that's another topic for another day.
Speaker 1: So I love here a new season. It's like a
freshly slate of ice, especially scrape surface. How sweet it
is to start a new NHL season. Shout out to
rich h And you're right, it feels like a clean slate.
You know, we all enjoyed our summers. We had a
lot of fun. You go to the lake, you go
to the beach, you do whatever. But now we're ready
to lock in. And as you mentioned, Karen, we got
a packed house right now on YouTube on x We're
gonna give you guys more picks. We're gonna do our
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us and hit the like button and just comment, engage,
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wager talk dot com, w dot bus, slash CB or
am for our profile pages. Karen, everyone keeps wondering and
asking me, who's gonna win the cup? Who's gonna win
the cup? Who are your future picks? You know what
My pick is? Anybody but Florida. Anybody Florida. That's my
pick for you. Let's start to eat with our first
game here Chicago and the Florida Panthers Banner Night in Florida.
And while they didn't really give them a tough matchup
as far as their first opponent of the season, we'll
see if they're lacking any focus though. Two big injuries
of course for this team, Barkov and Kachuk. What do
you think game one of the twenty twenty five twenty
twenty six NHL season.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I get you're anyone but Florida sentiment Andrew and
and uh just a small aside. Keep in mind, guys,
the games today these are Eastern times, are spread apart,
so you can watch all three games five o'clock game,
this game here that we're talking about, an eight o'clock game,
which is the Rangers in Penguins, and then ten thirty
which is the La Kings and Colorado. So they spaced
it out so you can watch about seven hours of hockey.
God bless the NHL for finally getting something right on
opening Andrew, I get your sentiment about the Florida Panthers. Uh,
it is when it's not your team winning, you hate
one team dominating. It's just the way it is in
any sport. This is why the New England Patriots got
so much hate. This is why the Kansas City Chiefs
got so much hate. Hey listen, I get the whole
I get the whole salary cap thing. They didn't do
anything wrong. They worked within the rules. I'm and they
and they live in a tax free state, which is
great for them as well too. But God bless them.
I think this year is going to be a little
tougher on them because of the bark Off thing, because
the no Sek thing, and of course Matthew to Chuck
who all start on the I R. So we'll see,
but it's next man up syndrome for this or thing
for this Florida Panthers team and the Stanley Cup. If
you guys wonder on banner raising knights, the team lifting
the banner, of course, is since nineteen seventy nine, twenty eight,
thirteen and four a win rate of zero point six
six three, so sixty six and a third percent of
the time the team raising the banner wins. The last
three years, Andrew Colorado lifted the banner beat the Chicago Blackhawks.
I believe it was like five to two two years.
Two years ago it was the Vegas Golden Knights, I believe,
beating the Seattle Kraken Fire matter correctly. And then last
year it was the Florida Panthers beating the Boston Bruins.
And now they get the Chicago Blackhawks out. These are
gonna be some tough games because I always say tread
lightly the first few weeks of the NHL season, because
the teams you expect to be bad aren't always bad
right from the get go. We saw with Chicago last year,
we saw with Anaheim last year. They won some games
early on, and those ones you want to be a
little careful because it can sort of be bank rollbusters
early on in the season. If you're laying way too
much Viig and this is too much big for me,
Andrew on this one, you can look at options of, say,
you know, taking Florida in regulation if you really want
to take tonight's game, or some type of a correlated
one with if you like the if you like the
over five and a half goals in it, you can
take Florida with the over and bring that price right down.
Only four of the only four of the last forty
five games have gone to overtime, where if you had
a regulation bet, you would lose. So that is not bad.
That is less than ten percent about nine percent of
the time, so that is not a bad way to go.
I still like Florida, you know, Andrew, They're a good team.
It would have surprised me if the Chicago Blackhawks win tonight. No,
not at all. They would not at all. Spencer Knight
returning back to Florida and laid well for Chicago when
they when they when they picked him up, So does
he come back to hunt Barbrovski and the Florida Panthers tonight.
I'm not necessarily sure that's going to happen. I'm probably
gonna lean to the over here, just because it's such
an emotional night. Maybe Florida gets off to a slow
start after the standy Cup raising ceremonies, but you look
at the history of the last four or five six
banner raising Knights and then been some higher scoring games.
Sometimes it takes a while to get there. In case
in point, I'm not sure if you guys remember Tampa
Bay against Pittsburgh. That game was one nothing I believe
for Pittsburgh going into the third period and finished six
to four or something like that, six to two, four
empty net goals, two goals scored with the goalie pulled
as well too. It was an insane game that turned
a dead under into an easy over.
Speaker 1: And that's why we love live betting. When it works,
it works, and some of these games start slow. I
remember last year, Karen, we'll get to this game tomorrow.
But Montreal Toronto had a million chances in the game
and the game finished one nothing. Montembeau had like I think,
fifty saves for the Montreal Canadians. I think it's a
good time to mention this though, that Ralph Michaels gave
us this earlier, and of guys, you use these these notes,
in these stats and these trends to help your case.
You don't need to bank your bets off of these.
But since twenty sixteen, NHL games number one of the
season with a total of six or lower, so five
and a half, one hundred and fifty three, seventy three
and seventeen over under, that sixty one point two percent
to the over in game once. Now, Karen, depending on
who you talk to, people have different takes at this.
But I'm still a big believer that the offenses are
caught up the defenses aren't nearly as much. Now, maybe
this is a lazy take, but I don't think it is.
The Florida Panthers have had a ton of intense games recently.
I'm talking two Stanley Cup runs, two Stanley Cup victories.
How do you think they're gonna feel of a Chicago
Blackhawks matchup to open up the night. I mean, don't
get me wrong, these guys are athletes. These guys want
to win every night. But you're gonna try and convince
me that if this was the Edmonton Oilers they were
playing tonight, they wouldn't care a bit more just a
bit more, or if it was the Tampa Bay Lightning,
we saw that craziness that went on in the preseason,
they care just a little bit more. So I think
they're gonna be lacking defensively, not as much offensively. And
the Barkov injury, Let's not forget, guys, the Barkoff injury
hurts them defensively. And I wouldn't say not as much offensively,
but the Barkov injury hurts them defensively. So guys, for me,
first bet of the season free play of the day.
This is a three percent client play run the first
period over one and a half goals Here, I see
at least two goals in the first period. Last year,
banner raising Night for the Florida Panthers finished with a
score of six to four. We got ten goals in
the first game of the Florida Panthers season last time out.
I'll tell you what else I like. I like the
first period team total over for the Chicago Blackhawks. I
don't have it in me. I don't have it in
me to bet the money line or anything like that
for this Hawks team. I don't. But first period over
half a goal is minus one ten over one and
a half goals minus one seventeen guys, Let's get off
to a good start. Let's see goals from both teams.
Let's get an action pack start here. We had a
comment somebody was mentioning karm about the ten minute delay
for these teams for the banner raising. Not only do
they announce the lineup for the whole like it's kind
of annoying, they announced like the entire medical staff, the
training staff, every single coach that's on that team, every
player starting or not. You know, that's like a ten
to fifteen minute delay. Sometimes that can happen. Shout out
to Parlo, he says, love the first period over and
Hawks to score first period. Well, Parlo, those are the
two bets that I'm on. So hopefully those two cash, Carl.
But here we go, Carmine, your number one fin right
off the bat. Andrews, Yeah, I.
Speaker 2: Love hell Man. How's the greatest. I'm going to answer
a couple of quick questions in the chat, Annibal says,
are we reading our messages in the chat? We are,
but we are. Andrew's producing the show today, so we're
taking it easy on him. He can't be answering questions
in the chat. We will try and answer some questions
at the end of the show and when he goes
to me, the last thing you guys wanted to see
me doing is looking down at my phone typing a
message to reply. The best bets will be part of
the show. Uh, but initially early on, you know, the
season has just started. It is tough to start popping
out best bets. We're just gonna give you our thoughts
on games. Give you leans, I think is the best
way to go because sometimes someone tuning in for the
very first time and watching puck time, let's come across
on YouTube. We'll we'll watch these and take everything at like, okay, uh,
they really like this. Uh this Chicago first period over,
I'm gonna you know, I'm gonna pound this game. Give
it some time, guys, let's let's let's let's just play
out the season. This is like the Boston Marathon. You
have to take it easy. It's like the Boston Marathon
where that guy sprints out for the first kilometer or
first mile. He's like, come in front of the Boston
Marathon and then first place mile too. Is he is
in the back of an ambulance being taken to UH
to UH one of the hospitals. I'm in first place.
That's just you know what I mean. So we'll see,
We'll wait for some trends to take effect, you know.
I mean like last year, I didn't think the Washington
Capitals and I know wash Redskins is in our chat.
I don't think the Washington Capitals were going to be
as good as they were, but my god, they just
didn't just start winning. They continue to win all season long.
Kudos to that team. So that is a trend or
or that is something that you need to look at.
Are teams that were sort of middle of the pack,
that had good offseasons, that had good preseasons, are they
ready to take the next step forward? Sometimes it may
take you five to six games to get there to
realize it, but to do it from from day one
is very tough. So that's why I'm like, I'm on
player prop mode for today's show instead of sides. But
I do think the the over in the Chicago game,
it's at five and a half, it was at six.
I wouldn't touch it.
Speaker 1: I haven't higher probity player prop game. All right, guys,
keep the comments flooding we got to get through to
the next games. Keep the comments coming. One more I'll
mention because I wanted to mention this anyway. Is anyone
considering Chicago plus one and a half? What's up? Occupancy?
My thing for this would be, you guys know, I
like the first period in this game. I personally believe
the better bet would be the plus a half goal
in the first period, because that way, if it goes,
you get out one to one, you get out unscathed,
you get the win, draw or win, you get obviously, Occupantcy.
You know how that bet works. I would think that's
where the edge is. The edge in this game with
the Hawks is in the first period, not in the
full game. From where I'm sitting, Karm, I have these
to pull up just really quick, I thought I did.
We'll see there we go. Uh, these are the lines
for the games. Berkowsky, Badar, Donado, Bertuzzi, Nazar, Tarra Viynen. Look,
someone's gotta score, someone's gotta play with Badard. I think
Ryan Donado's shot props could be good. Frank and Azar
is gonna be good this year. We'll see. But someone's
got to produce there with them. And this is what
it looks like right now for the Florida Panthers up
the middle, Bennett Lindell Rodriguez and Luke Coonan on the bottom.
There I think Marshawn right winger ryin Hart on the
right wing for some reason, I can't explain why, but
the Chicago Blackhawks have given up a ton of shots
against right wingers. I don't know. I looked at that
last night. So interesting stuff here. Guys, always look at
some of these lineups to help make your props, because
that can help you the most. And I'll tell you
one that I noticed. Reinhart over three and a half
shots on goal. It's plus one point thirty. He's hit
this in five of his last six home games and
four of last five games against the Chicago Blackhawks. All right,
I'm done, Carr, I'm done. I'm done with this game.
All right, I'll good.
Speaker 2: Oh, I'd listen. I get it to Andrew and uh,
you know, if you if we rely on some of
the some of the data from last season, the Chicago
Blackhawks were one of the top three teams last year
in shots on goal allowed. Uh. Whether that changes, whether
with the coaching being different, where that changes remains to
be seen, but they that that they were uh and
that's why you know, I took that last night when
we had that show, I took the Carter ver Hagy
over two and a half shots. It was minus one forty.
It's still a lot of big to lay. But it's
sort of that next man up in in Florida and
you look at that the lineup that you put up there,
and it's just hard to fandom that, even missing Matthew
deschak A Barkov, that that's what the team looks like it.
They still have a lot of a lot of depth
on it, and these guys are signed for a while.
So I'm anxious to see if if Chicago gets some
power I want to see the bar Terrorvining hookup. I
think on the power play, those two are going to
click on the power play. So it remains to be
seeing whether it happens right out of the gate game one,
as far as the first period over in the game
total goes, I would love to see it happen.
Speaker 1: Look, last year, I took the year off pretty much
from giving out player props to clients. This summer, I've
kind of kind of figured out how I want to
approach it and funny enough. I know people don't like parlays,
but I'm going to be doing some same game parlays,
whether it's one, two, or three legs. And you talked
about the Tarravine and Bedard hookup. Every player has their
guy they connect with, and I think even on bad
teams like Chicago, you're gonna be able to find some
guys that, Hey, if this guy scores, this guy's gets
the assist. If that guy gets the assist, that guy scores.
So great stuff your crime. Let's move on to Pittsburgh
and the New York Rangers. You gave out on my
show last night, a really good future. If you don't mind, Car,
would you bring it up here for the New York Rangers.
It was a really good one. I love it. I'm
probably gonna tail you on it, but of course, another
hefty price tag. The New York Rangers high expectations going
into this season, and I really don't know anybody, not
a single soul, that likes anything to do with the
Pittsburgh Penguins this year, and for a good reason. What
do you have for us on this one? And if
you don't mind, Karm, what's that future? You have for us.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so I'm gonna mention two of them, two futures
that you guys can look at in this game, and
then just give a quick opinion on the game, because
I think regardless of that two twenty price, it almost
feels like this game is a coin flip. The two
twenties is enough to keep me off the game. But
with that said, I was on Monday's Wager Talk today
with Andy Lang and this is one of the client
plays that I have a season long play, and the
second one that I'm going to mention will also be
a very client play. But I took the Pittsburgh Penguins
and released them at under seventy eight and a half points.
It's now seventy six and a half, so client's got
a full two points, which is a victory, which is
huge with season totals if they got on that one early.
It's a rebuilding year for this Pittsburgh team, Andrew. It's
at retooling season, not really a rebuilding year, but is
an old team you look at. It's a new coach,
dan Us because we're going to talk about the where
their coach is across on the Rangers bench. But you
have Crosby, fantastic player, is going to have to have
a break another awesome year, thirty eight years old, Le
Tang thirty eight, Malcolm thirty nine, Carlson thirty five, Brian
Russ thirty three, and Russ won't be playing tonight. It
is tough, and I said on last night's show that
I honestly believe that if the Pittsburgh Penguins are near
the bottom of the Eastern standings, which I believe they're
going to be, that at the trade deadline, Sidney Crosby
becomes a rental player, they move him somewhere to a
playoff bound team that is looking to shore it up,
and then he just returns to Pittsburgh in the offseason
to finish out his career there. And especially if they
get the number one pick in the draft and they
get McKenna, he is a perfect mentor for McKenna. So
we'll see if that happens or not. But we're on
record here October seventh. The other one is and we
saw with Washington last year, a team that didn't look
good the previous season had a fantastic season. Their coach wins,
they get into the playoffs, they finished first overall and
their coach wins the jack Adams. Mike Sullivan goes from
Pittsburgh to the Rangers, a team that clearly disappointed last season,
gave up a ton of shots, left Schoesterkin out to
dry on most nights. Adam Adam Adam Fox did not
have a good season last year. They need to bounce
back this season. And if they do and make the
playoffs and finish in one of the top two spots
in that Metropolitan he is going to win the jack Adams.
And he's twenty two to one.
Speaker 1: I just love the price on that. That is awesome. Look,
I'll come out and say it. I gave out twelve
to one Marty Saint Louis. It was as high as
fourteen to one, and you guys know I'm a Habs fan,
but I love that number. But Mike Sullivan, look, if
we can be real here for a second, guys, the
Metropolitan Division overall was not good last year. The Metropolitan
Division seems to get exposed every single season in the playoffs.
Am I wrong?
Speaker 2: Car?
Speaker 1: I mean the Capitals. They beat the Canadians, they lose
the Hurricanes every single year. The Hurricanes win one round
and then they lose in round two. It's not acceptable.
I mean, when is the last time we've seen a
Metro Hallton Division team do something? Hey, this team, this division? Yeah, sure,
you can be good within your own division. And then
last year with the Rangers not making the playoffs, it
was really really tough for them. But yeah, I'll tell
you one prop that I like here. Uh in this
one kar is Recard Raquel. He's a player just bringing
up the lineups here for you guys. H no Brian
Russ to start things out for the Pittsburgh Penguins. Let's
be completely honest. This lineup is looking rough right now
for Pittsburgh. But as we always say, someone's got to
shoot the pucks. Someone's got to score here. And I
want somebody that's a running mate with Sidney Crosby. It's
not easy to play with Sidney Crosby. I don't know why.
Maybe there's one player karm that now plays for Tampa
that the Penguins refuse to pay money to that really
they could use right now. His name is Jake Gonsel.
They could use that guy right now. And unfortunately, regard
with l so here it is Ricard Roquel. Over two
and a half shots on goal plus one hundred Ricard
Riquel anytime point minus one fifty four. If you don't
like the minus one fifty four, just play that over
two and a half shots on goal plus one hundred.
But I do like that player point prop as well,
minus one fifty four. Look, guys, sometimes when you bet
these top lines to get a point, you're gonna have
to lay a little bit of big. That's just how
it is. Unless you're betting third line guys, you're gonna
have to really, you know, get some of that. But
over two and a half shots on goal plus one
hundred for a guy playing next to Sydney Crosby, Ricard
Riquel guys three of his last four games he hit
this last season, and he does very well in this
matchup against the New York Rangers. Karen, before we get
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game here. If you know, the total has been fluctuating
between five and a half and six. I see some
six is there. I see that DraftKings has six and
a half, but it is really shaded to the under
laying buck thirty buck forty. I'm not laying that on
a total player prop that I like is I'm going
to take under the total of two and a half
for Mika Zabandizad. It is we're going to see if
Mike Sullivan is putting in a new game plan in
New York to protect their goalie and play a more
defensive style. And you know, I was leaning to the
under in this game, but I just could not pull
the trigger at six because it could very well land
on a four to two game. So I'll probably take
one or two player props, but I wanted to make
sure that at least gave something out that I'm looking
at playing to people who are watching live or later
on this afternoon when it is uploaded.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, we give it out player props all year,
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lightly with your best bets, be smart with opening night.
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All right, carm Last game of the night, Colorado Avalanche,
La Kings. We have two massive, massive favorites and then
we get to pick them. You gotta love that. To
end things off here, the Kings and the Avalanche, I'll
say this, I mean Colorado delt with some drama last year.
That's kind of what I've been saying when I talk
about this team with the whole Miko Ranton and thing
with trading him away, getting Netchus back, and now they're
kind of in the same situation. But the continuity of
this team I think is good for them. Landeskoga is back,
They're pretty healthy on the front end and the back end.
They're goalie. They got a good goalie now. But the
LA Kings man, they've got depth as well. That's the
biggest key for this Kings team is if they can
have their depth on full display, they're going to be
a really good team. Only issue I have with them
is their defensive corps. Like if you look at their defenseman,
it's not great. If we go through the bottom Mikey Anderson,
Drew Dowdy, Brian Dumelin, Brant Clark, Edmondson and Cody Ceci.
I mean, Brant Clark being on that defensive corps is
like me being at a bar with YOUW and Prez.
He's bringing down the age, He's bringing down the average age.
There's he's around a bunch of guys twenty years older
than him. Brant Clark, he was on the World junior
team like four years ago. So I do worry about
LA's defensive ability. What do you think about this game?
Another five and a half total here?
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, towards the second half of the season, Andrew.
They were a tough team to play against at home,
very good, but they had some struggles early on road
and at home. So we'll see how they are out
of the gate. And that's always tough. Ugh, I'm you know,
and this is not because of Edibles, because I don't
take him, but I am high on the Colorado Avalanche
this season. And the West is the Western Conference is
so tough. There's so many good teams in the Western Conference.
The Vegas Golden Knights seemed to beat everyone's favorite. You
still have a very good Winnipeg team, an Edmonton team,
Dallas Stars. You have to navigate your way through it.
But I love the fact that we have a full
season of Landeskog. I think they pretty much worked out
the goaltending issues in Colorado. Blackwood is is injured, so
it looks like it's gonna be it's it'll be Wedgwood
starting and the guy. Last season, Andrew had a very
good record fourteen six and two, two thirty two goals against, average,
nine toh eight save percentage. This is a guy who
is basically the number two with number one numbers. So
that duo, if they can build off of last season,
that duo is going to help this team. And then
you've got the guys like McKinnon and mccarr and Neckus
who they picked up from Carolina. No white noise over
this team obviously with Ranson and Gone. So we'll see
what we get out of Colorado. Now, can they win
opening nights again? Guys, this tough one. It's a coin flip,
but I would lean to Colorado in this one. You know,
prior to the LA Kings winning the last two games
at home where they faced the Colorado Avalanche, Colorado had
won six games in LA. They travel well. And I
think at this price minus one ten, I'm perfectly happy
with giving you guys a lean on Colorado in this
one and go one step further. I love this price.
I bet it last night, whether it happens or not,
any any anytime. Goalscorer is always tough. But Gabriel Landeskog
plus two to eighty, I'm getting almost three to one
for him to score a goal on Opening night. I'm
gonna give it a shot. I'm not laying any big
and if they get some power plays, I'm hoping him
mccarr and McKinnon can can get it going. You know
McKinnon's a good setup guy as well too, so we'll
see what happens.
Speaker 1: But underrated playmaking carm underrated playmakers. So I like that.
Get Landy back in the win. Call him as far
as some goals here, get him back in some goals.
I saw you got in a fight in the preseason.
That's how you know Captain Landeskog is back. He's already
fighting in the preseason. I get a player prop in
this one as well. I'm gonna go with Cale mccarr
power play point plus one eighty. Some books have plus
one ninety as well. He's like minus two hundred to
get at any time point, but he is plus one
ninety or eighty to get a power play point. He's
the quarterback of the power play. He's pretty much out
there for a minute and a half on each power play.
This team is so fast and dangerous they do get
to the power play quite often. And when I look
at this matchup, I do think we'll see some physicality.
And physicality of course leads to power plays. So if
you want to get involved and you want to take
some type of prop with Cale mccarr versus looking at
you know, individual point five on five. The power play
point is really good at plus one eighties. So I
really like this, and I think that you know you're
gonna look at these power play points this year for
some of these sharp teams, and that's the way to
avoid Last year, I was betting team totals a lot
to avoid laying big. And that's the same thing I'm
gonna do with player props. I'm gonna try and find
ways to avoid betting the big juiced odds. So that's
what we'll do, all right, Guys, put any questions that
you want in the live chat. We'll take anything.
Speaker 2: I will answer one. Andrew, I'll answer one. Let's go uh,
let go to get a grip or something like that. Yes,
when are we even gonna start charging to watch this channel?
We're not charging to watch this channel. But if Johnny
Detroit is watching our Fearless Leader, he will tell you
or put in there about being a Wager Talk insider,
because I believe you get a lot of the goat
Johnny uh, Johnny's stuff, his his Blacksjack ones, his live
betting stuff. You get all access to that one where
other people. If you click on the link, you won't
be able to get in so becoming a wager talk insider.
Uh to access that and that that thing's like about
a grand Oh boy, oh man, come on, I love it, Karen.
Where do your hair go? You know where my hair
is gone? When you're a Sabers fan. When you're a
Bills fan, you know you don't have time for hair products.
It just you pull your hair out all season long.
I pulled my hair out last night because I had
the Chiefs minus three and a half and they just
choked that game away. My god, like, what the hell?
Like Trevor Lawrence fell to the ground at the six
yard line. He was like those commercials, I've fallen and
I can't get up, and he pressed his little button
for help and then he got up and walked into
the end zone like what the hell. Anyways, this is
a hockey show. But I am gonna go watch some
Saber games this year. I am going to travel the
US watching some World Cup games. I will have it
all online for you guys. And if I'm visiting a
state in a stadium where you guys are, I'm going
to let you guys know, meet up and have some
drinks on me.
Speaker 1: There we go, Karen World Cup. Man, it's gonna be
a big time. Vito asking like to ask every NHL season,
what sites or tools do you use for accurate daily
lineup stats updates for teams to out the season. I'll
just say that I like to use daily faceoff. I
think that's a really good one for updated lines you
can lose use left wing lock, that's a really good one.
As far as goalies are concerned, I use goalieposts. Dot
Com gives you updated goalie starting info also gives you
the reporter that reported it, which is super nice. And
you and I both use a lot of the same
info sites. But there's all kinds of great stuff to
look at. Any one or two you want to shut
out there, karm.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean as the trends and you know, let
the trend be your friend, as they say, But it's
too obviously surely this season starting you want to look
at last year's numbers, you can because it gives you
that option. But a place like ev Analytics just registering
account there, I believe it's free, and you know they'll
charge for the deeper dive stuff, but you can check
check things like a team's record home in a way
or or individual or both for first periods for full games,
and you can see there are trends that set in.
You'll see a team, you know. I mean like I
talked to a couple of years ago ago about betting
against the New Jersey Devil's money line at home taking
the dog because New Jersey at one point was something
like three and thirteen after twenty minutes. They don't start
the games well, so you could take advantage of those
and make some money before the Brooks juice them. So
Evanneltics is a good one. Stat Muse is good as
well too, where you guys can get info like shots
on goal. You can punch in NHL twenty twenty four,
twenty five season or twenty five twenty six shots on
goal allowed, and it'll give you the you know, from
top to bottom. It will leave out a little portion
of it because again it's a subscriber site, but if
you have an account there you can still see some
good info.
Speaker 1: Stat music is great. I like stat music car It's good.
Speaker 2: So it's always good to as I say, guys, is
to do a little bit of homework. We're trying to
help you out a little bit. But if you want
to become a serious NHL better better in general. Listen
to the shows, get our thought process on how we
go about games. Watch wager Talk today as well too,
and you can sort of establish, you know, you're a
line of thinking. You don't have to follow the same line,
but it might help you get your own line of
thinking on how to get to a winner.
Speaker 1: I love this. I had Dodgers money line Cubs game
over and achieves in a parlay almost duplex somebody.
Speaker 2: This is where you go exciting. Kick a squirrel. Yeah,
kicking squirrels today.
Speaker 1: But our guy Lou. Shout out to Lou, so supportive,
Always appreciate him. It says, just for fun. How many
screens do you guys have up during the season? At
least three? I would say I usually have either my
best bet the night or the game that I'm a
fan of the most. So tonight the Blue Jays will
be on the center screen and the two smaller screens
will have Rangers, Penguins and Panthers Blackhawks. I gotta be
a fan, karm It's healthy for us to all be
a fan. We sports bet every day Main TV Blue Jays,
Yankees secondary monitors. We will have Hawks Panthers, Rangers, Penguins.
What about you? I mean, I know you're a busy
guy as well.
Speaker 2: Yeah you know. Let me tell you this. First of all, Andrew,
I think Ariol Ariol Epstein, who's a huge Yankees and
Ravens fan, I don't think she's ever gonna talk to
me again. I sent her a text message at like
one thirty in the morning. I'm like, hey, Earl, are
you up? And she's like, uh, yeah, what's up? I go, well,
the Yankees aren't up, and then the loll and then
I think I've been blocked on all social media channels.
Oh he's a die hard Yankees fan. I gotta do it.
Sometimes you have to have some fun with your friends.
But she took me to a Yankees game when we
were Joe and I were in town to watch the
Phillies and Yankees. She's great. If you haven't given her
a follow yet, she has a YouTube channel as well
to prop Queen. Give her a follow there as well too.
But with that said, Andrew, the NHL promo I think
is fantastic. You have plays up for the NHL today.
I do not have plays up. And I'll be honest
with my subscribers, because I have quite a few that
I've signed on. I likely won't have a card up today,
but I will have a card up tomorrow and Thursday.
Thursday is just like a monster NHL day, and we're
gonna have a lot of plays up. Slow and steady
wins the race. This is my plans this season. I'm
gonna go to Detroit. I'm gonna watch some Red Wing games.
I'm gonna go to Buffalo. I'm gonna wat some Sabers games.
It is actually cheaper to travel than to go downtown Toronto,
forty five minutes from where I am to watch a
Leafs game. It is absolutely ridiculous.
Speaker 1: You hate to see that. This comment sad background. Yeah,
my background looks like I'm working for cra That is hilarious. Wait,
hold on, hold on, carm hold on. I think this
is This is no put If.
Speaker 2: Some guy in an orange jumpsuit walks behind you there
with like towels, I'm gonna be a little bit worried.
Speaker 1: I was gifted this unbelievable background by somebody and the
glass broke. Okay, guys, I'm showing you this right now
on the air. I have glass on my floor right
now from trying to hang it up so this will
be up behind me. It looks really nice, but we
got to get that up on the wall, all right.
We got to wrap it up. Karm guys, this is
awesome love interacting with all of you. I thought it
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