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**Udog** · 12-28-2014, 10:57 AM

NHL
Dunkel

Vancouver at Anaheim
The Canucks head to Anaheim tonight and come into the contest with a 10-3 record in their last 13 games versus Pacific Division opponents. Vancouver is the pick (+120) according to Dunkel, which has the Canucks favored by 1. Dunkel Pick: Vancouver (+120). Here are all of today's NHL picks.

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 28

Game 1-2: Toronto at Florida (5:00 p.m. EST)
Dunkel Ratings: Toronto 10.404; Florida 11.879
Dunkel Line & Total: Florida by 1 1/2; 5
Vegas Line & Total: Florida (-115); 5 1/2
Dunkel Pick: Florida (-115); Under

Game 3-4: Vancouver at Anaheim (8:00 p.m. EST)
Dunkel Ratings: Vancouver 11.853; Anaheim 10.940
Dunkel Line & Total: Vancouver by 1; 6
Vegas Line & Total: Anaheim (-140); 5 1/2
Dunkel Pick: Vancouver (+120); Over

NHL
Long Sheet

Sunday, December 28

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TORONTO (20-12-0-3, 43 pts.) at FLORIDA (15-9-0-8, 38 pts.) - 12/28/2014, 5:05 PM
Top Trends for this game.
TORONTO is 24-32 ATS (-16.9 Units) when playing against a team with a losing record over the last 2 seasons.
FLORIDA is 147-172 ATS (+343.4 Units) in a home game where where the total is 5.5 since 1996.

Head-to-Head Series History
FLORIDA is 3-3 (+0.0 Units) against the spread versus TORONTO over the last 3 seasons
FLORIDA is 3-3-0 straight up against TORONTO over the last 3 seasons
4 of 6 games in this series have gone UNDER THE TOTAL over the last 3 seasons . (Under=+1.9 Units)

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VANCOUVER (20-11-0-2, 42 pts.) at ANAHEIM (23-8-0-6, 52 pts.) - 12/28/2014, 8:05 PM
Top Trends for this game.
VANCOUVER is 17-32 ATS (+50.6 Units) when playing against a team with a winning record over the last 2 seasons.
ANAHEIM is 84-48 ATS (+33.7 Units) in all games over the last 2 seasons.
ANAHEIM is 20-5 ATS (+11.3 Units) in December games over the last 2 seasons.
ANAHEIM is 52-27 ATS (+16.5 Units) first half of the season over the last 2 seasons.
ANAHEIM is 14-6 ATS (+4.5 Units) when playing on back-to-back days over the last 2 seasons.
ANAHEIM is 40-25 ATS (+10.8 Units) when playing against a team with a winning record over the last 2 seasons.
ANAHEIM is 25-13 ATS (+9.6 Units) when playing against a team with a winning record in the first half of the season over the last 2 seasons.
VANCOUVER is 24-12 ATS (+36.7 Units) in road games when playing with 3 or more days rest since 1996.
VANCOUVER is 145-110 ATS (+255.5 Units) in road games after scoring 4 goals or more in their previous game since 1996.
VANCOUVER is 70-47 ATS (+20.5 Units) in road games after playing 3 consecutive home games since 1996.
VANCOUVER is 79-76 ATS (+173.1 Units) in road games when playing against a team with a winning record in the first half of the season since 1996.

Head-to-Head Series History
ANAHEIM is 7-2 (+4.6 Units) against the spread versus VANCOUVER over the last 3 seasons
ANAHEIM is 7-2-0 straight up against VANCOUVER over the last 3 seasons
5 of 9 games in this series have gone OVER THE TOTAL over the last 3 seasons . (Over=+1.6 Units)

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NHL
Armadillo's Write-Up

Sunday, December 28

Hot teams
-- Panthers won three of their last four games.
-- Canucks won last two games, after losing previous five. Anaheim won nine of its last 12.

Cold teams
-- Toronto lost three of its last four games.

Series records
-- Panthers won three of last four games with Toronto.
-- Ducks won seven of last eight games with Vancouver.

Totals
-- Last four Toronto road games stayed under the total.
-- Five of last seven Vancouver road games went over.

Back-to-back
-- Anaheim is 3-2 if it played the night before.

NHL

Sunday, December 28

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Trend Report
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5:00 PM
TORONTO vs. FLORIDA
Toronto is 2-7 SU in its last 9 games when playing on the road against Florida
The total has gone UNDER in 6 of Toronto's last 9 games when playing on the road against Florida
The total has gone UNDER in 6 of Florida's last 9 games when playing at home against Toronto
Florida is 8-4 SU in its last 12 games when playing Toronto

8:00 PM
VANCOUVER vs. ANAHEIM
The total has gone OVER in 13 of Vancouver's last 19 games when playing Anaheim
Vancouver is 1-7 SU in its last 8 games when playing Anaheim
The total has gone OVER in 13 of Anaheim's last 19 games when playing Vancouver
Anaheim is 7-1 SU in its last 8 games when playing Vancouver

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NHL

Sunday, December 28

Ducks' RW Corey Perry, doubtful Sunday

Perry is on injured reserve with a knee injury. He is not expected to return for Sunday's game against the Canucks.

**Udog** · 12-28-2014, 10:58 AM

Armadillo: Sunday's six-pack

Six most popular picks in the Westgate Hotel handicapping contest, where some of the best handicappers in America put up $1,500 apiece, pick 5 games a week:

6) Giants -3-- Big Blue just beat three straight losing teams.

5) Redskins, +6-- Washington won first meeting in overtime.

4) Packers, -7.5-- Last time Lions won in Wisconsin? 1991.

3) Steelers, -3.5-- I'll say this: football season goes by too fast.

2) Panthers +4-- Surprised by this: Falcons are 5-0 in divisional games.

1) Chargers +3-- Bad spread was posted before Alex Smith was ruled out.

Season record of six most popular picks each week: 61-37-1

2013 season record of six most popular picks each week: 42-57-4

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Armadillo: Sunday's List of 13: Wrapping up a sports Saturday.........

13) Kentucky 58, Louisville 50-- People have to stop saying how this Kentucky team is the best in the last 30+ years; if they played the 1989-90 UNLV team or the Jordan-Worthy-Perkins Carolina team, they'd be playing against great players who were 2-3 years older than them. They're really good, but college basketball isn't nearly as good as it used to be, since no one who is any good stays in college long.

12) Georgetown 91, Indiana 87 OT-- This was way better game to watch; Hoosiers led by 10 at half, made 13-31 from arc but couldn't put the Hoyas away. I'm sure the fine folks at ESPN were thrilled when this game went overtime and pushed the start of the over-hyped Kentucky game onto ESPN News.

11) Former UConn coach Jim Calhoun works for ESPN now and he isn't bad; he talks a lot slower than he did in interviews when he coached. He was lucky to be with former Virginia Tech coach Seth Greenberg, who is very good on TV.

10) Then there is Jay Bilas, who has replaced Dick Vitale as ESPN's #1 guy but isn't worthy of the position; he quotes Robert M Knight too much and rips the refs for a good part of each game. How about just talking about the game?

9) Underdogs covered all five Saturday bowl games, are 11-7 vs the spread in bowl games this year, going 9-9 SU so far. There have been six bowls involving ACC teams and the underdog covered all six of those.

8) Georgia 86, Mercer 77 3OT-- This is same Mercer program that beat Duke in the NCAAs last March but with lot of new players as they move to the SoCon. Would have been a bad loss for the Dawgs, but they dodged a bullet as they head into SEC play, where it is assumed that Kentucky will run the table.

7) Cleveland Browns suspended their best player, WR Josh Gordon for the last game this season; Gordon was great last year but was a knucklehead this year, appearing in only five games after a couple of suspensions. Suspending him this week costs him a year of service, meaning Gordon can't be an unrestricted free agent for another year.

6) Starting QBs for both Boston College/NC State started their college careers at Florida, where the mismanagement of the QB poisition has them changing coaches again this winter. Gators recruit lot of good players, but they haven't been developing them into better players once they get on campus.

5) In the early 60's, Chicago Cubs didn't have a traditional manager; they used a "college of coaches", eight men who alternated duties, but it failed because there wasn't one true leader who made decisions- it caused chaos and backbiting.

Now the New Jersey Devils won't have one head coach for the rest of this season, using three men to divide the coaching duties, but one of them is GM Lou Lamoriello, who I'm assuming would be the "boss" the Cubs lacked when they tried this method.

4) Arizona Coyotes beat Anaheim 2-1 in a shootout, when Shane Doan scored on a shot where he shattered the blade of his stick, totally fooling the goalie. Doan hasn't scored a goal at home this season, but he picked up a point for Arizona there.

3) Arizona announcers were talking about the NHL considering adopting the AHL's overtime format, where teams play a 7:00 OT, with first 3:00 being 4-on-4, then the last 4:00 3-on-3, before going to a shootout. They were saying only 25% of OTs in the AHL are getting to the shootout, which is appealing to the NHL.

2) My father raises an interesting question; Where does all the money go that the NFL collects for fines? Over course of a year, its a decent amount of cash.

1) Penn State 31, Boston College 30 OT-- How on God's green earth does a major college football program not have a competent kicker? Kid on BC made a 20-yard FG and his teammates mobbed him like he cured cancer. Same kid missed an extra point in overtime that decided the outcome.

**Udog** · 12-28-2014, 01:07 PM

NHL
Short Sheet

Sunday, December 28

Toronto at Florida, 5:05 ET
Toronto: 51-30 OVER in road games off a road win scoring 4 or more goals
Florida: 10-33 ATS after a game where they covered the spread

Vancouver at Anaheim, 8:05 ET
Vancouver: 27-12 ATS after a huge blowout win by 5 goals or more
Anaheim: 2-7 ATS in home games after losing their previous game in OT

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