Speaker 1: NHL picks for Wednesday, January seventh. Guys, welcome to Puck
Time Wager Talk TV, myself Andrew McGinnis, Carmea and Bianco
and Don Buss to look forward to breaking down a
couple games for you guys. A little bit of a
quieter and smaller Wednesday slate, but that's to be expected.
Of course, we know Tuesday and Thursdays are a lot
more jam packed. Guys would have loved to get that
three and one last night, but we do end up
two and two. If you guys watched the pre scout, though,
we did go two and zero with Carolina over and
Tampa Bay over. I gotta say I was pretty excited
to hit that Tampa one because as much as I
was joking around with Carmen and he said, hey, it's
not really a contrarian play, and then I was like, Okay,
it's not contrarian, but it's always a nice feeling when
you can pick against the league's best team and you
can end up on the right side. So we hit that.
We hit Edmonton, but we did lose on Anaheim and Boston.
What's up with Seattle here, guys? The Seattle good all
this' or what. I'm not really sure what the deal
is with them, but we've got a couple of good
games to break down. Karl will tell you guys while
we're breaking down here, Karen, good morning man, I'll go
to you.
Speaker 2: How are you?
Speaker 3: How am I? I've got so much to cover? Andrew, Wow,
I look so big on this picture. I need to
fix my camera so I'm a little lower. Yeah, we're
gonna before I get into my venting, We're gonna get
you and I are going to break down Dallas and Washington.
Don Buster back to back. Don Buster is on the
second of a back to back. He is going to
do Ottawa and we're going to keep him around a
little bit longer to talk about Calgary Flames in the
Montreal Canadians with Andrew. Those two will break down that game.
There is no there's no same game parlay today. Andrew
just couldn't find anything of value, but which is a
good thing because he's been on a very good run.
So don't force a play if you don't have to.
We will have a pod plate to see if we
can get that back on track, and then the closing.
But before we get there and before we start, thank you,
first of all, to all the people that got the
customer appreciation play that won one very easily, a four
percent play on the Carolina Dallas over and a lot
of you guys were on that, and apologies to those
on the five percent play. My god, what an absolutely
horrendous game from the Devils. It's like that. It's like
that meme that is on on the X from the Simpsons.
Stop he's already dead. The Islanders just kept scoring and
scoring and scoring the Devils. I can't even believe they did.
They didn't take Markstrom out. He allowed two goals in
the first two shots, three goals in the first five shots,
and they were toast by the end of the first period.
Their coach the side, Sheldon Keith, decides he didn't like
he didn't like the opportunities the team was giving the Islanders,
so he wanted to give marks From a chance to
play better. In the second second period, it got worse
and then Sheldon Keith also said that at that point
he just decided to leave him in the whole game,
which reminds us of the Patrick wathing back in Montreal
when they let him they left him hungout to dry
and that was his last game that he played for
the Montreal Canadians, he pretty much quit as he as
he was heading to the dressing room and was eventually
traded to the Colorado Avalanche. But yeah, it was it
was a It was a terrible effort by a New
Jersey I didn't expect it, obviously, so apologies on that one.
But I gotta say there are some very good people
in the world. There are some very terrible people in
the world. It is one play in like three or
four hundred that I will put out in a season
of NHL, and I'm going to lose some I'm gonna win,
hopefully more than I lose. Some of the comments are good,
some of them were downright vile. I blocked somebody on
the X I don't even go on there anymore because
it is a wasteland and toxic. But some guy, and
I'm not going to use the word that he said,
but he sent me a message on Instagram and the
Instagram message was terrible play. I wish something on you
and the ill will. You can figure it out for yourselves.
How how tilted do you need to be to lose
one play and wish ill will on someone to that
is just absolutionly miserable. I don't get it. I just
I subscribe to the theory. Try and be it a
better version of your each and every day, and try
and put out better picks than you did the day before.
When you lose nine to nothing, your next pick should
be a lot better. I got one message late at
night from our good friend Rob Brailey, who was a
CFL insider. He's a friend of mine andrews don Busters,
and at least he put a little comedy into it.
He sent me a message at midnight saying did we
have the money line or plus nine and a half?
I thought that was a little funny at least to
helped me sleep a little bit better. But with that said, dudes, listen,
I wear it on my sleeve. I lost the play.
It was one and two night for me. We lose
a few units. We'll get back at it today and
just keep on moving forward. With that said, Andrew, let's
talk about where this Dallas Stars team is heading. Are
they heading forward? This Stars team plus one or three?
In the Stars minus one twenty four? I love the
over in this game yesterday with them in Carolina, it
just set up perfectly for an over and I wasn't
really worried at the end of the first paio when
it was three to one. I just thought the goals
were gonna keep coming. Second of a back to back
should be Casey the Smith in goal a little bit,
just a touch of Dallas money has come in this morning,
but Washington is still a favorite here. How do you
take this?
Speaker 1: Yeah, first of all, Carm, you don't deserve anybody saying
anything poor to you online, that's for sure. So look,
a loss is a loss, no matter what the score is.
And the crazy thing is, I know that people don't
care about this because a loss, but the analytics I
actually say they played a pretty good game, so a
lot of defensive issues, but you know, you don't deserve
any of that.
Speaker 2: A play is a play, and it's one bet.
Speaker 1: Yesterday, you know, I hit two plus money plays, but
my five dollars play lost at wager Talk, so you
can imagine people weren't half with me even though I
gave out you know, a plus one fifty and a
plus one oh five. So that's the way the world works.
And unfortunately people are never happy. But you know, people
of the chat, they got your back, Karm. Everyone's got
you all right, guys for me in this one here,
you look at this game and you think, overall, okay,
it's gonna be as simple as anything. Let's just take
the over right, I mean, why not. Dallas's defense is
so so trending downwards right now, it's already gone downhill.
They cannot make a save, but they also cannot contain
teams in their own defensive zone second half of back
to back as well. It's hard to imagine it going
any other way. But what's crazy is yesterday karm was
the first time that Jake Ottinger has been pulled since
that infamous goalie poll in the playoffs last year. He's
not a goalie that gets pulled very much. And whether
it's the defense or whether it is actually him in goal,
the Dallas Stars are struggling with put letting pucks into
their own net. Sometimes the world works in different ways.
And now you've got Casey de Smith, who has a
two four to one uh gaa nine to thirteen stay percentage.
I understand that they kind of give their backup goalie
some of the easier starts a lot of the time.
You know, he has faced favorable matchups. Of course, today
though second half of back to back Carolina then Washington.
There's no easy matchup when it comes to those two
teams here in that. But when I look at it, Carl,
you know where I'm gonna go is I'm gonna go
with the under I think that it's, you know, one
of those things where no matter what the score ends
up being tonight, they're gonna have to protect their own end.
If there's any type of pride that Dallas can score,
and you liked the over yesterday and I liked the
over yesterday too, if there's any type of pride that
they can display, and if they can get any you know,
type of morale points tonight, it's gonna be from playing
good defensive hockey. And if you look at Washington, I understand,
you know, Logan Thompson has had his ups and downs,
but we know he's a great goaltender.
Speaker 2: He'll go tonight for the Washington Capitals.
Speaker 1: And I'll tell you what I do, actually lean towards
this Dallas Stars team because this is gonna be about
as desperate as a spot that it gets for them.
And let's not forget the game that Washington's coming off of.
You know, Washington's coming off a game where they smoke
their opponent. I think we're gonna get a laser focused team.
What do we always say? What do we always say?
You want a team that's looking to right their wrongs
the next day? Why would you want a really frustrating
loss and then have three or four days off before
you get to right your wrongs? Forget about that. Dallas gets,
you know, twenty four hours. And I've seen this all
the time, you know, like coaches will go in the
locker room and they'll say, hey, look, you guys have
the next half an hour to be upset about this,
and we're gonna move on after that. So lean towards
the Dallas, but also looking towards the under six and
a half minus one twenty. So I'm looking at and
of course Jonathan and the chat saying no, Wilson and
Lexi protest again for Washington based on line rushes, which
definitely helps the case for the unders and and Dallas
has historically actually been a pretty good back to back team,
so you haven't really had to worry about them too
too much.
Speaker 2: And again, Carl, I'll go back to you with this.
Speaker 1: You know, when you look at teams, and you come
to the starting goalie versus the backup goalie and stuff.
I'm not saying that Jake Ottinger isn't you know, just
far and above beyond you know, Casey de Smith. But
I'm also gonna give credit to Casey to Smith because
he's a pretty good goalie himself. And Jonathan Davis here
says Dallas five and one second half of back to back.
Speaker 2: Well, hopefully that streak.
Speaker 1: Does me better Jonathan today than the fading seattle on
back to back trend has been treating me the past
couple times. But Carl Dallas for me, But I do
lean towards the under six and a half. If you
can get minus one twenty, I'm okay with that one.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Andrew, I get it. I think we're going mono
mono on this one. Excuse me. And I want to
say I appreciate the comments in the chat. Listen, this
is the last time I'm gonna harp on this and
then we'll we'll stop. Nobody is immune to criticism. If
you're running bad, you guys, feel free put the drop
those messages in the thing. Come on, carm let's get
at it. Let's turn it around what have you? It is,
it's the other stuff. Keep it civil. But nobody is
immune to criticism. So I don't live in a bubble.
I'm fifty seven years old. I'm past the bubble stage. Andrew,
here's the thing is and why we're gonna go mano
amano on this one.
Speaker 1: You don't look at you don't look at day over
fifty man, I'll.
Speaker 2: Tell you, hey, there you go.
Speaker 3: See the jebs are coming in. The thing is is
that it it's it's listed right now? Is expected? Casey
the Smith. Sometimes we've seen when the number one goalie
gets pulled in a game that's even on a back
to back, that that goalie wants to play the second
game of the back to back. He wants to get
back in there between the pipes. So we'll see whether
that happens or not. But case Smith, Casey Smith's got
a good a good number. But uh, if you look
at the games, the past games that he has started,
there's a lot of there's goals being scored. Dallas. I
think it's like what six are straight overs. But the
other thing is it's Logan Thompson who's confirmed and he's
struggled of late. He is one and what is it here?
One and four, one in four his last five starts
allowing in those let's let's have one in five his
last six starts allowing four six, three, four, four and two.
The two come into a Chicago team that they beat
or they lost in O t to uh. He's struggling
and he had such a fantastic start to the season.
He was playing well. So it's just one of those
ones that if you get a couple of goalies in
there that Dallas on the second one back to back,
looking to score some goals, looking to get out of
this winless run that they're in. A Washington team that
is at home can score goals and as we saw
in scoring I think seven in their last game and
looking to jump start their season because they have a
few losses as well too. Andrew, I have to lean
the over the overse had six here, and I can
see them getting to that number. So you know, with that,
With that said, that's where I'm that's where I'm heading
with this one. I'm gonna I'm not gonna take the
side because I'm leaning a little bit to Dallas, but
on the second of a back to back, I get
it if they've got a good record, it is. It's
a losing streak right now for Dallas. I need to
see some tangible numbers that show me that they are
they have turned the corner and are getting better and
they'll be fine. They're going to be fine. We know
the Dallas Stars are going to be fine. It's not
like we're talking about like the New York Rangers or
other teams that we think are going to be fine
and we lose so much money betting on them waiting
for them to become fine.
Speaker 2: You know what I mean.
Speaker 3: So it's the over for me in this one. I
think six gets there with these two. You know, it's
funny because we talk about overs, and I just want
to talk about one. The San Jose Sharks going into
last night's game were nine to zero to one, nine wins,
one tie or one push in their last ten overs,
So you would think ride that train against Columbus that
was a dead under until the last four minutes of
the game, where four goals got scored, two of them
into an empty net, and the final score is five
to two. If you're on the under, it was a
terrible beat. If you were on the over, drop a
little extra in the collection plate Sunday at church.
Speaker 1: Anytime you see two empty net goals, you gotta be
pretty happy. And I'm not gonna li like carm I'm pretty.
Speaker 3: Sure eleven game scoring for him.
Speaker 2: Last year.
Speaker 1: Last year I cashed a team total over with two
empty net goals.
Speaker 2: Do you remember that? Yeah, the team was up two
to one and.
Speaker 1: They won the game for one, and I was texting
you saying, man, I should have taken the puck line.
I should have taken the puck line, and they end
up getting the job done. So one thing to mention
I wanted to talk about here, and I saw Jonathan
talking about in the chat as well as I remember
you and Joe Ranier. He used to love betting those
power play points for Tampa, and I talked about this
a couple of days in the show with Dallas. But
they continue to be power play merchants. I don't know
how else to call it. I mean, with Wyatt Johnston,
with some of those key players out there, Jason Robertson,
he wants to prove himself after not making the American
Olympic team. So maybe if we are looking at player props,
we'll look at some powerplay stuff. I'll probably tweet some
stuff out later, guys, but I just didn't really find much.
Speaker 2: Last night.
Speaker 1: I was doing some research and I found a couple
unders in the Saint Louis game. But I was a
little worried about it. So I'll this is my work
and try and get some to you guys.
Speaker 3: If the Yeah, if you find some, tweet them out, Andrew.
And they've been winning, get them out there to everyone. Andrew.
You know I talked about I'm fifty seven, but you know,
the great thing is is that I didn't play football
when I was younger, so I've only had like one
really bad injury of brain injury. But the guy we're
bringing on now, this guy played football when they had
leather helmets. So let's bring him a don Buster. Let's
go on, man, you wear that leather helmet one day.
Speaker 4: I might just do that just for you to use
that line all the time. And I and I was
going to say you actually, I was gonna say, did
I hear that?
Speaker 5: Right? Your sixty seven.
Speaker 1: Carmie at buster Buster? That's how we know he's getting
all day is using the same line on you.
Speaker 5: Yeah, exactly the same.
Speaker 3: Just regurgitate the same stuff over and over and over again.
Speaker 5: But I won't I won't get that leather helmet, though, Carmi.
Speaker 3: That is awesome, Buster. I like this game that you
picked to discuss today. Utah Utah is minus one twenty
five Ottawa plus one o three total sits here at six.
How are you breaking this one down?
Speaker 4: Yeah, Carmiene, we have a couple of clubs here that
depended on the night, they seem to be any type really,
just looking at the past ten games on our six
and four, they won six, lost four and you five
and five.
Speaker 5: This Ottawa is going to be the first of just
the two game road trip.
Speaker 4: But you know they have to go play in Colorado
while they play in Denver tomorrow night.
Speaker 5: So you almost think this might be a must win
for them because.
Speaker 4: It's very tough to win on a back to back
and then play in Denver, right or playing the Colorado
Rocky So and I say Denver because I always think,
and we never really talk about it too much about
the altitude when you've got to go to the play
play the Colorado Avalanche, you know, so we don't use it,
we don't talk about it much, but it might be
a problem for them tomorrow. So in other words, I
think Oddawa does need to come out and win this one.
Utah as home after a three game road trip they
went to and one of a three game road trip
they won against the Islanders and Rangers loss against New Jersey.
Both these teams are on the outside looking in right
now the playoff picture. We're about halfway through the season,
so all these games are important to all these teams,
and as we talked about yesterday, a whole Eastern Conference.
Speaker 5: I think Columbus's bottom there and there maybe.
Speaker 4: Only seven points out of a playoff spot, and they're
the last place team. So they have played once this year,
it was four to two in Ottawa winning.
Speaker 5: Now, Ottawa actually has played slightly better this year.
Speaker 4: On the road and they've won their last four or
six on the road.
Speaker 5: But for me, the price, jeez, it seems to be
very low to bet to Odawa. I know, Utah I
thought would be a lot, you know, maybe at one
forty at least one thirty five. It just seems, you know,
it just seems a little short to be that Ottawa price.
That's just just what I think. And Utah have struggled
lately at home, though they have only.
Speaker 4: Won twice in the last six games. I do lean
to Ottawa here. I don't because of that with the
Utah in the situation. But I tell you, Carmine, I
know you talked about the games last night and everything
I tell you, I wish we could go back to
December one, twenty twenty five and start that off, because
since since the cant there's been January twenty twenty six.
I've been having some real tough luck myself, both three
or four overtime losses. Lost my customer appreciation game last night.
That's never good. Either could have had a better fate
there as well. But again, because of these situations not
working so well since the beginning of the new year,
I'm gonna pass on the side here and I just don't.
I would lean Ottawa, but just because they say, I
don't think the price is a very good price to
be bet in Oudawa because the Utah team is you
know that both these clubs will be very interesting to see.
Speaker 5: What they do if they get into the playoffs, into
the playoffs. So we passed on the side.
Speaker 4: But what we will play and we already gave out
to our clients a small play on the over six.
Speaker 5: Ottawa's gone seven and last nine to the over. Utah
has gone six out of the last seven at home
to the over. If you want to go back.
Speaker 4: When you tell was the Coyotes has been five and
one the last six when they've been playing at home.
Another reason Ottawa's Golden's terrible. That's another reason why I
kind of tread lightly if you're going to play Ottawa here.
You know, Mari Lanen has been I think I'm mispronounced
that has been terrible. I don't know if Shepherd will
get the start tonight for Ottawa. But between the goalies
and that thirty first penalty kill, these are the kind
of reasons why Detroit walks in and beat beats Ottawa
five to three when Outawa's playing well. So I really
passed aside here, but I do like the over six.
Speaker 3: I agree with you Buster. You know you talked about
like the goalies and stuff, and the Sins did call
up mad Sol guards so he's like he's going to
start one of the two games. You know, it's funny
hunt Hunter Shepherd who came in, Yeah, he came Uh.
If you look at the picture for any of you guys,
in the chat that likes soccer. I know Bill Sandibal
is normally in our chat or some of the wager
Talk chats. Unter Shepherd looks like the guy from Chelsea
Football Club, Cucarella, the Spaniard. He has got this exact
same haird Now, who am I speak about hairdoos? I'm not,
but man, they got they got a nice head of
fluffy hair on them, so it'll it'll be interesting to see.
I would have to think it's Marline and tonight excuse me,
and so guard tomorrow. Because Ottawa hasn't fared well against Colorado.
They're nine oh and are sorry? They're Colorado's nine and
one one o t loss. Wow, nine wins the last
ten games against this Ottawa team. So we shall see.
But we have seen those stats before and then a
team pulls off the upset at like plus two hundred
and they were like, what did we miss? You didn't
miss anything. You just missed an upset that happened. That
probably doesn't happen very often.
Speaker 1: So it's tough right now if you're if you're an
Ottawa Senators fan, because you know, and if you're a
player as well, like earlier in the year, when the
Mumpshawe Comadians, when we'll talk about them in a second,
when they were going through goalie issues, like the players
are always going to have your back, but the players
know the goalie behind them is struggling, it makes the
game tougher.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: You look at the Avalanche right now, they're one of
the best teams in the league and they've got you know,
Blackwood and Wedgewood as their goalies right like, it's it's
such a difference, you know. And right now, if you're
a Senator's player, if you turn the puck over and
it's a two on one going the other way, you're thinking.
Speaker 2: We're about to get scored on like that.
Speaker 1: That that that goal.
Speaker 2: Late in the game on a Hunter Shepherd. I'm not
even joking.
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to be an asshole, but it looked
like somebody photoshopped the picture because he looked so tiny
in the net. He looked so small in the net.
The net looked like a soccer net compared to him.
And I don't know, like obviously he must be athletic
or something, but he did not look great. And Mariline
and I have hope, I have hope for Mariline and
but and the crazy thing is almost wasn't playing well
well either. So it's just so tough because I said
on a couple of shows that I thought that the
Senators were probably, you know, the most underrated Canadian team.
But I guess I didn't. I shouldn't have included the
goalies in that conversation.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, the thing I do is, you know,
the thing with with with all Mark is it was
a heavy workload for him. I think he played something
like twenty eight twenty nine of the first like thirty
something games for them, thirty seven thirty eight games.
Speaker 2: For the good point good news is because I.
Speaker 3: Don't know what's wrong. Nobody knows what's wrong with him.
He's he you know, he's the way on personal reasons.
The team is supporting him. But he was He was
in the arena for the last game, the game in
which they lost to the Detroit Red Wings. He's up
in I think a suite or in the four hundred
level of was the Canadian Tire Arena or whatever it's
called in Ottawa. He was there. Yeah, so he was there.
So the great thing is, you know what I mean,
the teammates get to see him. Whatever he's going through,
we wish him all the best. Uh don't believe it's
an injury, but we all have things that go on
in our life, so we wish him all the best.
And I hope that when he returns, he returns on
his terms and nobody else's Buster. I'm keeping you around
because we love to have you, man Hal Green in Montreal. Yeah, no,
we do. Come on, come.
Speaker 5: On, I know, I just judge.
Speaker 4: Every time I'm speaking out here. Half the time, I
can see you rolling your eyes in the background. I
think you just do that because I've told you about
that before, so you know, check it.
Speaker 5: I just talk a little bit too much for Carmine.
Speaker 3: Yeah, talk a little bit too much.
Speaker 5: But I tried to break down the games for everybody to.
Speaker 3: And still he won't let me get He won't let
me get to this game. He's still talking. Still I
need the mute button or whatever you know, or the
gong showing you just need that big Okay, don Buster,
give Montreal Canadians Calgary Flames Montreal minus one fifty one
Calgary Flames plus one twenty four total sits here at six.
You and Andrew break this down. You go first.
Speaker 1: Okay, well, let's get off the screen, get out of here, Karen.
Speaker 4: Oh Andrew Montreal coming home off, that's what is a
seven game road trip, so playing that first home again.
But these situations haven't really been holding true since the
New Year. They did beat Calgary two to one overtime. Calgary,
they're not that very They're not really good on the
road lately. They've won only one of the last four games.
But not too sure. I want to play Montreal at
that price, Jesus. It seems like a little bit high
of a price. Especially Calgary was playing really good hockey,
but now they've lost their last two games, didn't look
too good doing it, and maybe they're on that regression
mode Calgary is.
Speaker 5: I'm not sure.
Speaker 4: So I find it very tough to pick a side
in this one because of the situation with the price
of Montreal. Also again because of the situation for Montreal.
So I don't really like playing into those situations. The under,
I mean, let's go to the totals here. The under
is six and one the last seven games between these clubs.
It's also six and one in the last seven times
they played in Montreal.
Speaker 5: The under is where I would lean here under six.
Speaker 4: But it's tough doing that with the Montreal too because
they have such a good power play and everything then
and like say, Calgary hasn't looked good the last couple
of games, and game up with a lot of shots
and four goals and five goals, So I would lean under,
but I do not believe it's going to make my card.
But that's my little breakdown, and I kept it nice
and shirt for Carmine.
Speaker 2: There you go, look a buster.
Speaker 1: I get it with the under, just based on the
numbers there for the Calgary and and they haven't been
as strong offensively lately. If I was playing the over,
I would play first period and I'll preface it, I
haven't been great with the first period overs lately. But
you yeah, it's it's it's so frustrating, you know, like
you're watching the game, and the worst is when you
see one goal go in with like you know, seventeen
minutes to go and then there's nothing else after that.
But you and I both know that, you know, it's
it's been really impressive to watch this team this year
and the run that they've gone on. And the biggest
thing is the second line, right, like Slavkovsky going down
to that second line. I think that's changed a lot
of people's opinion about him because playing with Kappanan, playing
with the Medov people are realizing, holy shit, maybe this
guy was just kind of catering to Suzuki and Coffield
more because you know, the best line on the team
lately has actually been lined two, not as much line one,
but the depth has been there. Jacob Fowler just recently
confirmed to go tonight, which you know he's he's been
great and well rested.
Speaker 4: But I'm thinking they can't can't be carrying I haven't
looked at anything recently because another the college basketball not
but they can't be carrying three goalies, right, one of
them must have got sent back down.
Speaker 2: That's the thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're they're they're carrying three for the time. I
think they got to.
Speaker 5: Send eventually much longer. I think the.
Speaker 1: Problem is is that they don't want to. Well, it's
because they have a roster spot available. So when the
season started they had space. They kept a roster spot available.
But people think it could be bad for Fowler's development
if he's only playing you know, once a week, right,
hurt them, But look, you talked about the splitz. I
just wanted to mention that really quick before we get
Carmine back here. Is that at home, goal differential plus
minus for the Flames is plus thirteen. On the road,
their goal plus minus differential, Buster, you nailed it, minus
twenty seven, minus twenty seven.
Speaker 2: They've given up road.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they've given up seventy four goals on the road
this season. They've only given up fifty goals at home here.
But I'll say Montreal and we'll bring Karen back here.
Montreal can be a very emotional, and let's be honest,
they're still a young team. You know, they've had some
days off since that road trip, right, buster, a couple.
Speaker 2: Of days off, days off, But we know how it goes.
Speaker 1: You secure ten of fourteen points or ten of sixteen,
whatever it was on the road. You play well in
the Florida, you play well against this team, that team,
then Calgary.
Speaker 5: Shocked.
Speaker 1: We well, Calgary comes to town, right, and you know
this is what worries me, right, is that this would
be the team they'll play the shittiest against, right, because
they played well against Carolina, you play well against Dallas,
and you know how it works.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I like the first period over Karm.
Speaker 1: I don't know what you think about that mindset, but
you know, even if people don't like the habs, nobody
can lie it was a pretty solid road trip for them.
Speaker 2: But can they follow it up at home? Right now?
Speaker 3: That's the thing, you know, Prez talks about it, and
rightfully so situations and Brian's even talked about It's Brian Leonard.
Brian Leonard, guys, just so you know, he's not on
this week. He's got a little bit of time off.
Everyone deserves a vacation. We will see him next week
or the week after. Everyone deserves a little vacation. But Andrew,
they both talk about the fact that sometimes when a
team returns home from a very good road trip, that
first game back, usually the first game back is a
little rough if it was a longer road trip, but
that first back is this is one that they just
will sometimes look the fade on them. It's either a
fade or no play at all, and that could be
one of those ones. Here at play, you know, I mean,
these are I wouldn't call them rivals, but they're Canadian
rivals in that sense. And the Flames are playing much
better at home than they are on the on the road.
So you know, with that said, yeah, I'm not getting
enough plus money on Calgary for for me to want
to take it. But I still don't want to lay
one fifty one on the Canadians. And that has nothing
to do with both of your mugs. I just don't
want to lay that number. So this one, this game
is not on my radar for tonight, even though you're
trying to convince me with that hat.
Speaker 1: Well, and this is the real thing too though, And
I know this might sound funny, but guys, the best
teams in the league. What separates a good team from
an average team is being able to, you know, show
up consistently to the rink, right like you think about
Tampa Bay and their heyday, Florida and their heyday, the Avalanche,
this you know, this Stars when they were good, but
the Nights when they had their run, Like you have
to be able to beat everybody, it doesn't matter. Like
a perfect example buster And then we'll get a little
promo from you.
Speaker 2: That match up against the Saint Louis.
Speaker 1: Blues that the Canadians had a couple of days ago
or a couple of week ago, right on the weekend,
like if that's not like, yeah, you know, I'm not
gonna lie to you. I don't give out many picks
on or against the habs. It's the only thing that
keeps my piece in my household. I watch the games
and I enjoy it. But that was the most flat
spot of flat spots. Two nothing. You know, Bnnington played well,
but they've only looked bad lately against other against bad teams,
you know. So we'll see how they played tonight. But
I know you and I'll be cheering for the Blue
bla rouge tonight. But what do you have going right now?
Speaker 2: Buster? It's a busy week.
Speaker 1: We've got wild Card weekend NFL, We've got hockey in
full swing, We've got college sports a lot going on.
Speaker 2: What do you have about rockin?
Speaker 5: Yeah, well we mentioned it yesterday. The Powers that Be
got that great.
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there's there's a ton of great deals to begin in
the new year at a wager talk and kind of
hoping that well you guys as well, hoping that the
new year starts becoming a little bit better for myself,
that's for sure.
Speaker 2: That's fair about you.
Speaker 3: As I say, and I said it in the chat,
I will judge myself not on Judgment Day, but at
the end of the season. That's how I judge myself.
It's great to talk about one day, three days, seven days,
thirty days and how we're running and that just gives
people an insight into if you're running hot at the
current moment and stuff. But judge judge yourself at the
end of the season, not midway through it. So with
that said, Buster, listen, appreciate you doing a little overtime.
You don't get paid for the overtime, just let you know.
So head back to the avocado farm or whatever and
have a great, great day and a great weekend ahead.
Speaker 4: Brother you guys as well, Thank you for having me
as always, and hopefully we'll see it sometime next week.
Speaker 1: Thank you all the best, enjoy the time, take care
now us here. I'm hopeful Carmen isn't a flat spot man,
but I'll tell you it's full disclosure. The first period
overs have not been great for me lately, but I
like this one. I do like this first period over.
It just makes a lot of sense to me based
on the situational.
Speaker 2: Play, I really really do.
Speaker 1: I will tell you this before I go to you
that if I find the other props, I will tweet
them out. The only one that I found yesterday that
I did think was a little bit intriguing was Robert
Thomas under two and a half shots on goal. Chicago
gives up a ton of shots on goal to everybody
besides Centerman. For whatever reason, they ranked near the bottom
of the league in shots on goal against everybody besides Centerman.
They're top four team as far as defensive numbers. So
Robert Thomas under two and a half shots on goal
for the Blues was a prop that I found yesterday
during my show, and it kind of worked out really
well today. Carmen, I appreciate how you know it wasn't
really planned. We had Dallas game, Autawa game, and Calgary
game today on our show and on my show last night,
I broke down the Saint Louis and Chicago game. So
worked out pretty well. We had no repeats, which is
always nice.
Speaker 2: But you have been.
Speaker 1: Rolling long term with your play of the day. Here,
you've got one for us and your graphic. Man, you
got this fiery graphic for us.
Speaker 2: What do you have today?
Speaker 3: I'm going to get rid of that fiery graphic because
that fiery graphic, because I think the fine people at
chat GPT, I'm going to ask them to lessen the
fire on it because it might fool people into thinking
this play is going to be absolutely fire. If this
one doesn't work, I'm going back to that plain, old
static image that I was using.
Speaker 2: But with.
Speaker 3: That said, Andrew, Today's pod is the over in the
Autawa game over six minus one fifteen Ottawa and Utah.
You got Utah returning home off that three game East
Coast trip where they spend most of the time in
New York, of course, New York, New York and New Jersey.
They return home now they are six three and one
to the over the their last ten at home and
four and one their last five. We already know the
problems with Ottawa. We cashed an over with Ottawa and Detroit.
Marylind is likely in goal tonight, and if it's not him,
it's going to be bad. So Guard it's just not
a good situation for Ottawa. They leave home disappointed off
that five to three loss, hit the road. Sometimes you
play some better hockey on the road and you get
back into into that wing column. They have scorers on
that team, they can score goals, and they get a
Utah team on their first back off that road trip,
So this sets up nicely for them. I would think
to hopefully score some goals tonight in this one prior
to heading to Colorado tomorrow, where it could likely be
a big l for them. So give me the over
six in this one as your pod play.
Speaker 1: Let's get some goals because you know what this Ottawa team.
I trust their offense, but I don't really trust their
goaltending at all right now or their defense. So Carl
look forward to a great day. Brother, Let's have a
good one. Let's cash some tickets here again. We've got
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Speaker 2: NFL player Prop carme.
Speaker 1: My prop's been fantastic, The best bets have been fantastic,
and we earned over twenty units this year with NFL
Player Props. We're gonna try and keep that going going
into this weekend. What do you have going that carm.
Speaker 3: A couple of plays winners for me today or what yeah,
six to oh run since Saturday in soccer, being very
what's the word I'm looking for, very very selective with
the soccer plays. I would love to get on a
fantastic run heading into the World Cup again. I'll judge
myself at the end of the soccer seasons in May
to see how we did. But a nice little run
right now. Two plays up in the English Premier League
today at two and oh day yesterday in Italian soccer.
Two plays up in the NHL, and then a couple
plays up already for Friday college football playoffs fourteen to
five and one with the Bulls in college foot or
in the playoffs, and then an NFL five percent play up.
This one's not going to lose nine nothing. So with
that said, listen, guys, I appreciate your comments. I seriously do.
I said, no one's immune to criticism, but keep it
absolutely civil. I don't mind those messages in the videos
that a bald man, let's get one in the wind
column or something. I'm perfectly fine with those ones. Is
the vile ones that just tell me that someone believes
that one plays the blue pill. It is a marathon,
not a sprint. With that said, for myself, Andrew mckinnis
and don a Buster who put in double duty today,
this is part time. We will see you on Thursday.