Speaker 1: NHL picks for Monday, March the ninth. Welcome to Puck Time,
a wager Talk TV. Andrew and Carmine look forward to
a great day of games. I know we always say
Monday does not have the biggest slate in the world.
We've got a handful of games to break down. Hopefully
we can find you, guys, some winners. We've got some props,
We've got an NHL pod, We've got all kinds of
stuff for you as well as some great promos to
give you as well. And I'll tell you what, it's
been kind of a win one lose one for me.
We did have some best bets over the weekend, NHL
Best Bet and College Basketball Best Bet, but that pretty
much does nothing to compare to the run that Carmine
is on. Will bring in karm an unbelievable run right
now for you, carm across multiple sports. I believe. How
are you.
Speaker 2: I'm doing well, man, I'm excited. Kind of a crappy
week because we have a couple of days where there's
only two games I think on Friday and on Wednesday,
but we can use those to forecast the NHL matchups.
See who's playing who, See if there's actually gonna be
a Montreal versus Buffalo first round of the NHL Playoffs.
The Red Wings are trying to spoil that they're playing.
They're playing well, they're they're winning games. I'm looking forward
to it. I'm going to the game on the twenty
seventh in at Key Bank Arena in a Buffalo myself,
a good buddy of mine that you've met when you
were in Toronto, my buddy Joe, and Johnny Detroit and
his wife Paula, who are monster Detroit Red Wings fans.
It is going to be an atmosphere. But I'm just
happy about, like Andrew, whether the Sabers do well in
the playoffs or not, I'm just happy about the fact
that hockey, that the fan base finally has something to
cheer for. Like looking at the images the people in
the stands, and I've gone to games where let's say
Montreal's in town, it is seventy percent Montreal jerseys. If
Toronto's in town, seventy percent Toronto jerseys. It's now Buffalo
jerseys because they aren't selling their tickets because they have
a team that's competitive, and man, what a game yesterday.
Look at this, Look at this game, Andrew, one hundred
and two penalty minutes eight to seven final five fights.
Speaker 1: Insane, absolutely incredible game.
Speaker 2: Sabers blow a three goal lead and then Tampa blows
a two goal lead and the Stabs win it. Unbelievable game.
One hundred and two minutes in penalties is absolutely insane, Andrew.
That doesn't compare if you're a soccer fan. Look at
this stat. I had to throw this one up here.
Look at this yesterday in Brazil in the final of
the Minyaro the title game League twenty two. I believe
it is twenty two red cards in the game, twenty
two red cards. Most of them were players on the bench.
Apparently a full scale brawl broke out at the end
of the game, Andrew, full scale brawl broke out, and
the red and the ref just started handing out red
cards to everyone.
Speaker 1: What happens that? How many guys are on the field
at once? Or does that not change? Like? How did
what to notice?
Speaker 2: I think most of them were bench players, with the
exception of a couple other ones. And it happened like
seventeen minutes into like injury time. So absolutely insane. But
that Saber game was a good one. And I watched
some of the Oilers game. It is funny watching the
Oilers and Vegas. The announcer goes, Vegas is are sorry,
Oilers are up three to one and going on the
power play with three minutes left, and the announcers the
announcer basically says the color guy, as long as the
Oilers don't allow a empty net goal they or sorry,
a short handed goal, they should be okay. And then
Jacky calls scored they short yeah, and the goal.
Speaker 1: But I'll tell you, Karl, there's there's one common theme.
When all of these games get out of hand, and
all of these games are going absolutely bonkers, it's always
a team from Florida, the Panthers, or remember the Vassilevski
versus Jeremy Swayman fight Tampa Bay. If there's any big brawls,
it's Florida it these and these teams are winning teams.
So I'm not saying fights mean wins, but toughness is
really important. And I'll tell you what, that's one thing
that the Sabers have. And as a Montreal Canadians fan,
I'm looking at my team saying, well, they didn't really
add toughness. They've got one or two tough players like
those that looked like a playoff type game yesterday. Man,
those teams are tough.
Speaker 2: It definitely was, you know. I mean, I think Tampa
Bay came in looking to stir it up because the
Sabers have played some very disciplined hockey over this streak
and they just look to disrupt them. And it worked
and blowing that lead and blowing a three goal lead,
but the Sabers were able to get just get back
into the game, get focused on doing what they were
supposed to be doing, and that is scoring some goals,
winning and winning the game. And they did it. So
those two teams have to play one more time in Buffalo.
That is going to be a fun one to watch.
But the time being, the Sabers hold the number one
seed in the Atlantic. I thought the only way I'd
be saying that in March on this show would be
if I if I was on a bender from the
night before and I still hadn't sobered up. That's the
only way I would think I would ever be talking
about the Sabers being in first place at this point.
But for myself, guys, the last seven days I don't
want to turn this into a pres kind of thing.
But the last seven days since Monday of last week,
seventeen three and three cross all sports eleven to one
in one in the NHL. It's been a phenomenal run
for me, and I just want to keep it going.
So let's try and keep it going. I have a
five percent play up for tonight, but we'll discuss that
one later because we have some games to talk about, Andrew,
and let's talk about the LA Kings and the Columbus
Blue Jackets. One for the Jackets? Is this a little disrespect?
Speaker 1: Andrew?
Speaker 2: I get it. The Jackets are playing well, but the
Kings are a pretty good road team plus one fourteen
and they're still in this playoff race, especially with Vegas
having dropped pretty much every game since the Olympic restart.
They won the game in LA and then they did
battle back to win a game that was a huge
two points. It looks like now where they beat the
Red Wings in ot. How are you playing this one?
Speaker 1: Man? I get it, like it could be disrespect or
we could look at it as respect. We have to
ask ourselves, which which do we want to look at
glass half full or the glass half empty, because if
it's a glass half full, the one could say this
is a respectful number for Columbus, but if it's if
it's half empty, this is a disrespectful number towards the
LA Kings. Look, you know this Columbus Blue Jackets team,
it's I don't want to compare them to Buffalo because
Buffalo is obviously first place in the division cards, so
I'm not going to do Buffalo like that. But the
way that Columbus has been able to kind of turn
themselves around in a matter of like a month and
a half has been so impressive. But the cool thing
about this team is that they haven't been able to
just pull themselves around. Uh. In one facet of the game,
Like I'm looking right now, Jet Greaves projected to start,
you know, uh say percentage last handful of games nine
oh eight at home, last three games uh nine to
one one UH at home here saves per game at
home twenty five point four goals against average per game
at home two point five to six. Last three games
two point three to three goals against average, and the
expected goals against was three point five to three. So
he's playing above his means and as far as this
team is concerned, their offensive play has been great, but
their defensive numbers have actually been what's been impressing me
the most. So I'm going to go with a different
angle here, Karen, and I'm going to go LA Kings
team total under. You know, they made a couple of trades.
You know, you pick up some guys, you lose some
guys you needed to. I think they made some calculated
decisions with their trades, like they didn't, I don't think
like sell the farm, but they also had to make
a couple of decisions here. But I'm going to go
with LA under two and a half goals at plus
one point fifteen. We'll get rid of the minus one
forty one on the Columbus side. And you know I
typically take these team totals over. This time around, we're
going to go with a team total under. Many people
probably think about Columbus right now, and they think just
about offense. But when I look at them, I'm seeing
really good metrics defensively and especially in goal from both
their goaltenders. So we'll see, Karen, what this La Kings
team can do. But I'm gonna look for a good
game out of Columbus, and I do slightly lean towards
the under overall as well. In the game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, it is a shame because we talk
about good old Mo and having momentum on your side.
It's a shame that they blew that lead to the
Canadians three two in the third period to lose that
game four to three and not get any points out
of that. And of course Skowski gets a couple of goals.
I wanted him the other night when he was like
almost three to one odds. Yeah, it is just this
is the road trip that makes your breaks. I think
the La Kings when you look at it, because you
look at this, this team has the fourth best record
in the Western Conference on the road this season, behind Dallas,
Colorado and Minnesota, three very good teams. They have the
fourth best road record, arguably a better record on the
road picking up points and I think three of their
last five. But you look at this road trip and
this is what they have. They have Columbus tonight, which
is a great if you can get off to a win,
it's a great way to start the trip. Then they're
on a second of a back to back tomorrow night.
They get the Bruins. Then they get the Islanders, the Devils,
and the Rangers before returning home to face the Philadelphia Flyers.
So I would think three wins on this trip would
be good three of five, but four or five put
some smack dab in a playoff race because we're running
out of games. So you have to go a little
higher than I think six hundred as far as your
win percentage if you want to get into the race.
They're still there. They have some games in hand, but
these are the ones you need to win. I'm going
to take them to win tonight. We're getting plus money
on the Kings team that plays well on the road
coming off a home loss, and you always want to
win that first one on the road. So I'm going
to take the Kings plus one fourteen in this one.
Speaker 1: All right, we're sort of monol mono, but if it's
two to one, then we can be both winners as
well as I don't get more than two goals overall,
karma you're feeling with the total if you have one,
like I see you like that side the dog, but
you see this being a grinded out battle, a little
bit like a goaltend night.
Speaker 2: I think so, I think so. I don't think the
Kings at this moment can get into games in which
you're going up and down the ice. I think they
need to play a little bit better. I think that's
what hurt him against the I think that's what hurt
him against the Montreal Canadians. Obviously, taking a penalty with
about five minutes left hurt them as well too. In
that one, once the Canadian got the tying goal, it's
a completely different game. Montreal always finishes games strong, so
you just don't want to give them any chance to
get up off the ground, and the Kings did that.
I think it's one of those correlation ones. I think
if the Kings win, it's got to be one of
those three two type of games, three to one type
of games. They're gonna have to play extremely well tonight.
You know, Jack Greaves had a great start to the season.
I haven't really looked at his numbers as of late.
Darcy comfort has to be good for them tonight. They
have to play well. I still have hope in this
Kings team, and maybe that's just because a little bit
has to do with the fact that if the Kings
played a little bit better, maybe the Vegas Golden Knights
don't make the playoffs. And it's nothing against the Vegas
Golden it's just because I have a plate at plus
fifteen hundred on the Kings. Are on the Golden Knights
to miss the playoffs. So I was happy about last
night scoring. Well, we'll see, there's a long way to
go through. The Pacific is open, Andrew. The Ducks are
in first place, the Owners, I think, are in second,
and now Vegas is in third. It is wide open
still even the San Jose Sharks. Those San Jose Sharks
with the games in hand, are not out of the
playoff race.
Speaker 1: Yep. But that's the problem. It's, like I said last
week on the show, a lot of those teams in
that division that are in a playoff spot right now,
if they were in the Eastern Conference, they wouldn't even
be in a playoff spot. So I like your bet.
But that's the only tough issue is that to your point,
even if Vegas keeps losing, you also need these other
teams to start winning. It's like Vegas has built a
comfortable lead a little bit where but as you mentioned,
you've got teams knocking on the doorsteps. So and this,
This begs the question for us as well. Carm Uh.
Maybe every day or every couple of days, mean you
try and find some draw bets. I know a couple
of guys in the chat right now, Terry and Purlow
and some other guys like to bet the draws, and
and you know, we're getting towards that draw season. You know.
I know there's certain guys like Alex B. Smith and
and and Ian Cameron and them that they bet that
almost every day. But we're getting to that time of
year where teams are playing for points. Karm Uh. And
in that Montreal versus LA game you're talking about, I
thought for sure when Slewkowski tied it up it was
going to go to overtime, and then two minutes later,
Nick Suzuki scores uh, and you know, adds to that
lead there with it. So I think that you're going
to see some matchups where both teams are tied up
three minutes to go and they sing Kumbai ya and
let's both get one point, Let's get one point, and
let's especially if you're not in the same division.
Speaker 2: Right dude, I've seen it all I remember, and I'm
going to go back to like soccer. I remember in
the World Cup Italy playing Mexico in a game, a
group stage game in which if you finished with that
score line that they were at that both teams advanced
to the knockout stages and they basically there's even like
that cartoon on The Simpsons, there's a meme where you
just see them they're at They're in the middle of
the field and they're just kind of passing the ball
around like it's a warm up a two minutes. They're
just passing around. Nobody's attacking, no one's trying to score.
They're just passing the ball around to keep it in
play and for the ref to blow the whistle, the
official to blow the whistle and end the game. So
it happens is. I saw the Kings do it a
few years back where they needed a point to make
the playoffs, and they it was like their sticks were
turning into sawdust if they were still out of wood.
They were holding them so hard. They just kept dumping
the puck, dumping a puck, getting over the red line,
dumping a puck, and sitting back five guys trying to
stop the opposition from getting into their zone. They got
the game to overtime, made the playoffs, and went on
I think to lose that game. So we've seen it before.
It's there. There's parts of hockey that we like, there's
parts of the hockey that we don't like. I remember
for the last one before we get to this Utah
Chicago game, the Devils with the neutral zone trap. The
Philadelphia Flyers once with the puck in their own zone,
just stood there, the defenseman with the puck for about
a good sixty seconds because New Jersey had set up
the neutral zone trap and he basically was waiting for
them to come into the zone and try and get
the puck off of them.
Speaker 1: It is.
Speaker 2: It's not hockey, but it is what.
Speaker 1: It is, and we're outing for people out there worth mentioning.
This will be the set second straight Monday where we
have an early game in the day, So that Columbus
and LA game four oh seven eastern time? Is that
is that right, Carm four oh seven Eastern time? I
believe it's lined up as so. Uh, who doesn't love
that I tell this to you every time, Carm. I'm
jealous that you are handicapping a sport on a daily
basis that you get to watch some games during the day.
I've got a buddy here where I live from the UK.
He loves, you know, just getting off work and getting
to watch the Premier League or Champions League. So hey,
maybe hockey's gonna start giving us some afternoon games. I
wouldn't mind that whatsoever.
Speaker 2: Once the playoffs start, we'll have it. And Saturdays, Saturdays
and Sundays have afternoon games. But once the playoffs start
we'll be seeing those some earlier games hopefully. Plus March
Madness is right around the corner. So you guys who
need to fill on basketball. I'm not a basketball guy.
I do watch it. I will occasionally be it. When Dan,
Alexander or one of the other guys gives me some
hot tips Jovenieri, I'll bet them. But for the most part,
I'm focused on some other stuff. Let's talk about Utah
and the Chicago Blackhawks. Here another good one. The price
on this one. Utah is really getting some money there.
Minus two o three on Utah plus one sixty five
on the Chicago Blackhawks at home, minus one ten both
ways with on the total of six. Andrew, how you
taking this one?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I think this is a matter of how much
do you care about the back to back situation when
it comes to this game, and how much does it
does it bother us the Chicago's gonna be playing the
back to back, we obviously have two hefty favorites sort
of to start off the show here, Carmen. It's kind
of the theme a little bit of the day. You know,
the closest number we really had was that Columbus one,
but it got shot up from the opener. You know,
looking at this game, you've You've got this Utah team
that's playing extremely well offensively. A lot of the numbers
that I'm looking at show really good signs for them,
but when you look at it as well, both teams
actually aren't like creating a ton of high danger scoring chances.
The Chicago Blackhawks, especially despite coming off that four to
three game, their numbers kind of suggest that we should
see some offensive aggression and should be seeing some unders
when it comes to them. Now, one thing that we
have seen, We've talked about this quite a bit, is
they put their their backup goaltender in the first half
of the back to back against Dallas. So now they
set up Spencer Knight in the second half of back
to back against the Utah Mammoth carm I know it's
weird to give out a play when I don't have
odds for this yet, but I'm gonna be looking probably
at a Spencer Night saves prop. You know, Utah, they're
not having a ton of shots on goal per game
right now, they're not overwhelming you by any me, but
their offense is still surging. They're still creating a ton
of chances. Their possession numbers are there, and I think
that they're gonna absolutely pepper Chicago Tonight h and Spencer
Knight well rested. He's the better of the two goaltenders.
I think if Chicago has a chance in this one
of even staying alive, of even keeping things close, I
think Spencer Knight's save prop to the over could be
a good look for me. But all things suggest that
Utah is to play here. They're well rested, and if
you look at the whole league from an outside, zoomed
out perspective, this is probably a team that's playing the
best that nobody's really talking about right now. Utah is
actually playing some pretty good hockey. So what do you
think about that? KRM? I mean, the second half of
back to back. You set it up so that your
best goali is there. I know that the Islanders did
that with Sorokan. Recently, we've got Vassilevsky with Tampa, We've
got you know, all kinds of teams are doing that now.
But the question that begs for me is that, hey, maybe,
just like I'm thinking, Chicago knows he's gonna face a
ton of shots so all the tickets cash. The same
as you always tell me, I think that Spencer Knight
saves prop might be my play for this game. Yeah.
Speaker 2: The only thing I think you need to do, Andrew,
as far as like those ones there is, is check
the morning skate. Because they are on a back to
back Number one, number two, he wasn't available yesterday. They
called up from the Chicago did from their affiliate, called
up Duke Comeso and he was the backup in goal
in the last game. So it's just a matter of
is Spencer Knight pheeling okay? He very well might not
even start tonight and we could get an HL goalie
in net. So that's one of those ones and probably
why the line is where it is, the uncertainty. I
haven't seen any confirmed goalies as off yet, like I said,
I know that the Chicago did call up call him
up on Saturday, So we'll see where it goes as
far as goaltending goes. But it's one of those ones
where you want to wait for the morning skate and
and see if he's even on the ice. If he's
not on the ice, then he's not going to be playing.
So a couple you know, I know, like rodal Wires
shows him as expected, but their goaltenders change, you know,
I mean on the half hour almost you can just
keep refreshing that sight and seeing a different expected goalie. Normally,
when they go to a second expected goalie from the
first expected goalie, that means that that goalie is trending
to be the starting goalie. So we'll see how it goes.
But if there's player props up on him, they're just
going to end up canceling them. If if Spencer Knight
doesn't doesn't make any goal, it's one of those ones
where Chicago and the second of a back to back,
they have played. Well, if it's not Spencer Night in
goal tonight, I'd probably look and even if he is,
is he going to be one hundred percent? We don't
know what the problem is with us with him other
than illness. Illness doesn't really tell us much. So this
is probably one in which you'd want to probably ride
the mammoth train and look for them to get a win. Now,
do you want to lay two three? Probably not. You
can look at piecen it with something else or taking
him in regulation or the puck line and just leading
up that up to get a minus one a true
minus one line.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's the question. Some people in the CHATCRM
were saying, no way, Utah deserves this price tag. Well,
the back to back certainly is playing a factor in it, right,
So if you know, nobody wants to lay a number
like this. So you mentioned that minus one line or
first period whatever it is, or team total stuff, because
that's really the issue is. Sometimes look at a team
like Utah and you ask yourself, are they deserving of
this price? You know? But I also wonder like Chicago Go,
they trade away Nick Felino, they trade away Jason Dickinson,
they trade away Connor Murphy and Connor Bedard and these
guys Calm, they looked pretty emotional in their press, in
their in their media availability, and you know, Badard pretty
much saying, Hey, I hope this is one of the
last times that we're doing this. You know, I'm hoping
they can turn the page. But we both know what
happens eventually. It might not happen right away, but when
a team sells off, eventually the team starts to look
pretty bad. Maybe they'll have a little bit of a
spark for the next game or two. But sometimes you
have to just listen to what the team is telling you.
And they just sold off three of their leaders on
the team. Not really good for defense.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, it's it's not, But it's it's it's about
acquiring assets. It's about getting rid of some of the
salary cup and doing things that are good for your team.
Chicago's is it is so weird because Chicago's in one
of those spots where they own their own draft pick.
I believe if they finish in the bottom five or
even the bottom three Andrew, they could very well win
the draft again. And then you have Kevin McKenna and
Connor Badar. It could be the start of like a franchise.
You know what I mean is something the cap goes up.
The Salard CAP's going up next year, so there's more
money available as well too, so it'll be interesting to
see what happens there. But I would keep an eye
out out before anyone bets this game. I would keep
an eye out on the cold goaltending for for Chicago tonight.
I'm not gonna say it's a must win for Utah
because they're in a playoff spot right now, but it's perilous,
you know. I mean, they're fourth in their division, which
means that in thirteen points back of I think Minnesota,
so they're essentially vying for one of the two wild
card spots. And the teams in the Pacific are winning games.
So you know, if teams like the Sharks continue to win,
the Kings start to win, and then of course Ducks Vegas, Seattle,
Kraken at Minton Oiters, it could get the noose around
the neck get a little tight or the tie, whatever
you want to call it. So you're gonna want to
win games against teams who are bottom three, bottom five
in the league.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, Well, those are the games, you're exactly right,
karm Those are the games you look back on at
the end of the year and you think, how the
hell did we not win? That one, right, Like, those
are the games you look back on and you have
regrets about. You might not have regrets if you lose
against a really good team, but you could have regrets
if you lose against one of the bottom teams. All right,
let's talk about two teams that I think we need
to figure out how we're going to be betting on
or against these teams for the rest of the season. Now,
the Philadelphia Flyers, karm, how do you have this team
classified right now? When you think about the Philadelphia Flyers
because looking at this number, I know, guys in the
chat again, A're gonna say, what is this number here?
And I'm looking at my Odds Logic screen right now.
The opening number was minus one fifty three. That was
the opening consensus number. And we have seen the current
price now drop down to minus one forty four, minus
one thirty five. So there has been some money coming
in on the New York Rangers. Which direction do you
think this Philadelphia Flyers team is going from now until
the end of the season? Kar do they deserve this
price tag? Because I get that feeling that New York
is out of it. They're not making the playoffs, and
yet they actually might still win some games. And it's
almost like you're getting an absolute by low spot money
wise every single time the Rangers play. Now, am I
far off here? You get what I'm saying?
Speaker 2: Yeah, No, I get it. You mean, like, prior to
the Olympic break and it's all season long they haven't
played well, but probably to Olympic break they had a
lot of injuries. Obviously, getting just Circing back helps them,
Getting Adam Fox back helps them. You know, they get
rid of Penaren. But for the most part, the team's
playing for pride. They're going to finish in the last
place in the Eastern Conference. That goes without a doubt.
They're going to finish with this probably the second worst
record in the NHL. But there are teams in which
you have to figure the players want to get up
for and beat. And they're teams from like their own division,
the New York Islanders, the New Jersey Devils, the Philadelphia Flyers.
They would love nothing better than to be the fly
in the ointment and and and just hurt. These teams
play the spoiler role. Now, does that mean they're going
to go out and win tonight? No, I think the
Flyers are deserved of this of this record. Since since
coming back from the post Olympic break, they've only lost
a couple of games. They lost the first one out
of the gate against the Washington Capitals, and I was
on the Capstack game and thought I got lucky because
Philadelphia played extremely well in that game. And then they
reeled off the three wins. They lose to Utah three
nothing again, another team that is playoff bound right now,
and then they win their last one. And that was
part of the six and sixty this weekend where I
said I thought the Flyers were a live dog, even
though it was a small price going into Pittsburgh and
beating Pittsburgh. And they did it. Took a shootout or
ot or whatever did, but they got the win. I'm
approaching this a different way, and this is going to
be part of the pod later, but I'll still record
the pod for you guys. I'm going with the first
period the totals year five and a half. I'm going
with the first period over. And here's the reason why
the New York Rangers on the road have gone eleven
straight overs on the road. They're eleven in oh to
the first period over on the road. Their last eleven games,
so you're get a great price on him anywhere from
minus one fifteen to minus one twenty five on the
first period over one and a half. Let's see if
we can cash a ticket on the first period over
and make it twelve straight New York Rangers first period
overs on the road.
Speaker 1: That's a stat that I won't get in front of
karm That's a stat that I will not get in
front of on the road with this New York Rangers team.
So again, that kind of tells me though that their
their offense isn't really going away, and they decided to
keep Trocheck. They still have a handful of guys. Are
you shocked they didn't end up trading more pieces away
this New York Rangers team. It almost I saw a
quote from Vincent Trocheck before the deadline, and it's almost
like he was saying he wanted to leave. He's like,
he's like, I'm getting up there in age, I'm getting
a bit older now, I want to win. And then
they don't trade him, so maybe they can find a
way to win because they still have some good players.
Speaker 2: No, yeah, they do. I think it a lot of
the times it comes down to the contract that you have,
the city that you're living in, the family that you have.
You mean, he's got Trocheck's got a couple of kids,
two or three kids, and it's like uprooting your kids
and taking them to a new city as well too.
But he prepared his kids and talked to them about
possibly getting traded. So it's a bit of a surprise.
But the thing about the Rangers is, and you haven't
really seen it the last couple of years, they have
the pieces there and they're probably a team that's willing
to spend the money. Like you have a good Golding
Shastrik in you have Adam Fox's had a down year,
but the guy still is a Norse Trophy winner. What
happens if they get the first pick in the draft
and they get McKenna. He's not going to come in
and completely turn the franchise around right off the bat,
but now you start to you have some pieces to
surround him with that Chicago didn't have. You have a
bandagead you have Lefreniere, You have like some other guys
on that team that you can surround him with, and
uh uh, And it's it's it's similar to almost as
similar to the Celebrini thing as well too. So you
go out and you get a couple more guys and
all of a sudden, you're back into the playoffs. It's
not a complete rebuild, it's a semi rebuild. You got
rid of a couple of guys, you lower your caps,
your cap hit, you have a little extra cap money
and uh. And the great thing is if you get
the number one pick, he's coming in off of the
number one draft pick salary and not the the salary
that you're gonna have to pay him four years down
the line.
Speaker 1: The rookie contract. Yeah, that's that's always great, the rookie
contract when you can have and if you notice too,
a lot of players or a lot of teams that
end up having success. Like remember when the Colorado Avalanche
one car cal mccarr was on a rookie contract. Cal
mccarr was only still in the first couple of years
of his career in the NHL when they won the
Stanley Cup. So it's it's always interesting when you look
at that salary cap wise. Yeah, my Canadians not making
any moves at the deadline. You know, the only move
they're going to make this year is Michael Hage from
Michigan is going to be coming after the college hockey
season is over. So the good news is when you
add a player like that, you know how much they're making.
They're making the minimum the minimum amount allowed, which is
always nice for the teams to have a great skilled
player like that. That's not taking too much of it.
So Karl seventeen three and three, is that right? With
your run? Seventeen three and three five percent? Play up
tonight for Carmine. Don't miss it, guys, grab it, WT dopas,
backslash c B. Look, we're here every day Monday through Friday,
ten am Eastern, sometimes ten oh two if I'm late
logging in. But this is the show for us giving
out picks promos, and of course you guys will always
get free picks for us. But car Mind's best bets,
the ones he saves, the favorites are at WTT, bus
slash CB and carm I only say that because you
literally give out a pod every day, so nobody can
complain that we're not giving out enough free picks. Yeah,
seventeen three and three run eleven one and one NHL
run last seven days, but hey, we're giving out all
kinds of free picks as well too.
Speaker 2: It's gone, it's gone. Well, you know, it's like going
into like yesterday. I was sixteen one and three and
I went like one into yesterday. I lose two soccer games,
and I lost him in like the ugliest way possible.
A goal with like twenty seconds left. The guy kicks
it from like forty yards outside the box and it
finds the smallest little area above the goalie's hands, and
it turns a push into a loss. I would have
much preferred to push and then an under where a
late goal a Lakeals needed a two to one game
and it went over the total instead of under the
two and a half total. So it is. I'm perfectly
happy with both plays. They should have got there, they didn't,
but it's been an insane run. I would love to
be nineteen one in three, but I'll take seventeen three
and three. And I played the contrarian yesterday in one
of the games. I played the contraying in the Bruins
game that I think a lot of people love the
under in the Bruins Pittsburgh game, and I thought the
exact opposite. I thought it was a really good spot
for the over and that game finishes five to four,
so when the total was at six. So we'll try
and keep it rolling with play in the NHL tonight.
I won't have any soccer today. There's only a couple
of soccer games, but I do have Champions League Tuesday
and Wednesday. It is the next round of the knockout
stages and some absolutely phenomenal games going on. So you're
gonna want to obviously take advantage of those ones that
buy three get three days. If you picked that up,
you had a great week with me speaking of great
week's Andrew those player prop plus money things, keep on hitting, man,
what do you got for us today?
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's funny. I changed the format every now and then.
I was just doing some goal scorers, and I think
we hit like forty percent of the last two or
three days of those and we had some plus two
seventy fives, plus two fifties. So and it's kind of
funny because I'm trying to track the games right. And
you always appreciate you get a message on Twitter or
someone's tweeting you said, great call with the props, and
this is how you know that you have to know
the world is a good place too. I thought somebody
was like talking trash to me, and then I was like,
oh shit, we're like four for six right now. Because
you know the good thing about these player props is
you know, first period doesn't matter, second period doesn't matter.
And I think I had one or two that were
like empty net or third periods. So today I do
have two many same gamers as I've been doing for
the most part. So here we go. We've got four
picks that equal plus eight seventy two. Four picks eight
seventy two. But the two games we're looking at here
Utah and Chicago, Calgary and Washington. Here, look, Calgary has
been involved in more overs than you guys would believe.
They're scoring goals shockingly, but they're giving up chances, all right.
Alexi protests one plus point, Pierre Luke Tubois one plus point.
That's plus two hundred and in the Utah Chicago game,
two second line players. Both of these guys are plus
money to get a point on their own. They play
on the same line. If one gets a point, I
think the other will as well. Paterka and Last and
Kraus both of them to get a point. So as
I always say, and I'll recommend you guys can take
both of these as their own parlays plus two to
two four plus two hundred and if you want to
take them all in one, that's plus eight seventy two.
I love it, Caren. We got four guys. As Bill
Belichick would say, do your job. I need four guys
to do their job for me. And speaking of doing
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Got some great resources we're using for it. So it's
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It's all about the long term, Caren. What do you
have for us for the pod?
Speaker 2: All right, Pod, we're going back to the in Philadelphia game.
I love streaks. You ride them until they lose, and
then you ride them one more time to make sure
that the streak has ended. But eleven straight first period
overs for the New York Rangers on the road over
one and a half minus one fifteen tonight against the
Philadelphia Flyers. Rangers looking to play spoilers, Flyers looking to
get a win and push them a little closer to
that playoff line above them. They're not out of it yet.
This team has not given up. Rick Tuckett will not
make this team give up. So I expect a good
one tonight between these two teams. Not a Sabers Tampa
Bay kind of game, but a good one. Nonetheless. First
period over one and a half minus one fifteen is
your pod play.
Speaker 1: There we go, first period over twenty minutes. Car must
have plans tonight only a twenty minute bet first period
over one and a half goals.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's other games, other games to watch. It's a
busy day on for me here. I have appointments starting,
have a zoom call in like ten minutes, so it's
hard out on this show. Looking forward to it, guys.
For those who asked, because I know some people asked
about a World Cup package, our office will be putting
one up on my page where you get all the
World Cup plays, including five percent, any of the five
percent World Cup plays. I'm looking forward to it. The
World Cups just around the corner. I'm going to be
going to a bunch of games and I will have
a World Cup betting guide that will come out next month.
There's still some games and still some teams looking to
make it into the World Cup, and they'll play on
the twenty sixth of this month, the semifinals and finals
of the qualifying to get into the World Cup, Italy
being one of them. I don't get why they have
to go through qualifying, but it is what it is.
With that said, and they better qualify because I have
tickets to Canada versus whoever wins the European playoff, which
is Italy, which would be the Italy one, So Canada
versus Italy. I would love to go have tickets for
the game. I would love to go and actually watch
it and take something off my bucket list.
Speaker 1: Andrew.
Speaker 2: But with that said, I one five percent playoff for
tonight in the NHL. That's going to be it. The
soccer I don't like. I'll have a Champions League up
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I'll send it over to you to close it out
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Speaker 1: All right, guys, let's win the day. Let's win the day.
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