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**Udog** · 03-23-2016, 09:54 AM

Armadillo: Wednesday's six-pack

Odds for six interesting first round matches in Match Play golf today......

Jason Day (-$225) vs Graeme McDowell (+$180)

Rickie Fowler (-$190) vs Jason Dufner (+$155)

Sergio Garcia (-$155) vs Lee Westwood (+$125)

Adam Scott (-$210) vs Thomas Pieters (+$175)

Shane Lowry (-$130) vs Martin Kaymer (even)

Brooks Koepka (-$130) vs Billy Horschel (even)

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Armadillo: Wednesday's List of 13: Mid-week musings........

13) I see where coaches Mike Montgomery, Hugh Durham were elected to College Basketball Hall of Fame in Kansas City; congrats to them, but why isn't UNLV's Jerry Tarkanian in that Hall of Fame? He is in Springfield's Basketball Hall of Fame (the real HOF), but for some reason, a Hall of Fame with Gene Keady, Norm Stewart, Lefty Driesell and Lou Carnesecca doesn't have room for Tark the Shark. No bueno.

12) Denzel Washington went to college at Fordham; he played freshman basketball, where his coach was PJ Carlesimo; both went on to bigger and better things.

11) Coaching carousel: Central Florida hires Johnny Dawkins, recently fired by the Stanford Cardinal. Southern Utah hired Todd Simon, former interim coach at UNLV.

10) Cat Barber bolts NC State for the NBA; this is why some teams cannot gain any traction in their leagues. Players skip out early and try to cash in, which obviously is their right, but teams that develop a nucleus of good players who don't have their eyes on NBA are ones that win more consistently-- say a team like Wisconsin or maybe Virginia. Kentucky/Duke are scooping up most of the big-time recruits.

9) Los Angeles Angels were supposed to play an exhibition game in Salt Lake City against their farm team Tuesday, but the game got snowed out. Snow. Yuk.

8) Remember Rik Smits, the Pacers' center? His son is red-shirting at Valparaiso this year and yes he is also 7-1. If he is as good as his dad, Bryce Drew is a lucky guy.

7) When the Chicago Cubs stretched yesterday, they were led by....a mime. I am not kidding, a freakin' mime was on the field, leading their stretching. Joe Maddon is big on breaking up the monotony of a long season. Mimes will do that sort of thing.

6) Spring training statistics are largely useless; Bob Welch won 27 games for the '90 A's, he won the Cy Young. His ERA in spring training that year was over 17.00.

5) Duke-Oregon game will be just third time in last 20 years that Duke is the lower-seeded team in an NCAA tourney game- they lost the other two, to Louisville in a regional final, to Kansas in a regional semi. Over last 30 years, Duke is 7-3 vs spread when getting points in the NCAAs- they're an underdog against Oregon.

4) Bandwagon fever: Royals drew 11,781 fans for an exhibition game last night, during which Royals' TV guy Rex Hudler was defending Chase Utley's slide from playoffs LY, when he broke Ruben Tejada's leg.

They showed Hal McRae breaking up a DP in the 1972 World Series, when he threw a cross-body block on Oakland's Dick Green. Hudler sounded like my dad, when he used to go into his "back in the good ol' days" routine. Classic stuff.

3) Why don't both leagues have the DH, or neither league? How is this possible, that one league does and one does not? And in Japan, it is the same damn thing-- one league has the DH, the other league doesn't. Makes no sense.

2) Roy Williams banks an extra $200K if North Carolina beats Indiana Friday; think he'll spring for extra toppings on players' pizzas if the Tar Heels win? He gets $200K more if the Tar Heels win on Sunday and $250K more if they win national title.

1) Today is an underrated TV day, with 32 first round matches in World Golf Match Play tournament. Plus some exhibition baseball. Better-than-usual daytime TV, which isn't sayng much. The quality of daytime TV most days is putrid.

**Udog** · 03-23-2016, 10:01 AM

NHL
Dunkel

Wednesday, March 23

Ottawa @ NY Islanders

Game 1-2
March 23, 2016 @ 7:00 pm

Dunkel Rating:
Ottawa
13.318
NY Islanders
12.181
Dunkel Team:
Dunkel Line:
Dunkel Total:
Ottawa
by 1
6
Vegas Team:
Vegas Line:
Vegas Total:
Ottawa
No Line
N/A
Dunkel Pick:
Ottawa
N/A

Boston @ NY Rangers

Game 3-4
March 23, 2016 @ 8:00 pm

Dunkel Rating:
Boston
12.680
NY Rangers
11.220
Dunkel Team:
Dunkel Line:
Dunkel Total:
Boston
by 1 1/2
4
Vegas Team:
Vegas Line:
Vegas Total:
NY Rangers
-140
5
Dunkel Pick:
Boston
(+120); Under

NHL
Long Sheet

Wednesday, March 23

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OTTAWA (34-32-0-8, 76 pts.) at NY ISLANDERS (38-24-0-9, 85 pts.) - 3/23/2016, 7:05 PM
There are no Top Trends with records of significance that apply to this game.

Head-to-Head Series History
NY ISLANDERS is 5-3 (+2.3 Units) against the spread versus OTTAWA over the last 3 seasons
NY ISLANDERS is 5-3-0 straight up against OTTAWA over the last 3 seasons
6 of 8 games in this series have gone UNDER THE TOTAL over the last 3 seasons . (Under=+3.8 Units)

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BOSTON (39-26-0-8, 86 pts.) at NY RANGERS (41-24-0-8, 90 pts.) - 3/23/2016, 8:05 PM
Top Trends for this game.
BOSTON is 1-6 ATS (-9.1 Units) when playing with 3 or more days rest this season.
BOSTON is 14-21 ATS (-9.7 Units) revenging a loss versus opponent this season.
BOSTON is 11-17 ATS (-15.5 Units) after scoring 1 goal or less in their previous game over the last 2 seasons.
NY RANGERS are 105-69 ATS (+21.2 Units) in all games over the last 2 seasons.
NY RANGERS are 20-7 ATS (+10.8 Units) in a home game where where the total is 5 or less this season.
NY RANGERS are 64-37 ATS (+4.5 Units) second half of the season over the last 2 seasons.
BOSTON is 56-42 ATS (+103.7 Units) in road games after playing 3 consecutive road games since 1996.
BOSTON is 181-200 ATS (+435.9 Units) in road games when playing against a team with a winning record since 1996.
NY RANGERS are 111-111 ATS (-53.5 Units) in home games after a win by 2 goals or more since 1996.
NY RANGERS are 119-119 ATS (-76.0 Units) in home games after scoring 4 goals or more in their previous game since 1996.
NY RANGERS are 179-211 ATS (-169.5 Units) in home games when playing against a team with a winning record since 1996.

Head-to-Head Series History
BOSTON is 6-2 (+3.9 Units) against the spread versus NY RANGERS over the last 3 seasons
BOSTON is 6-2-0 straight up against NY RANGERS over the last 3 seasons
3 of 6 games in this series have gone OVER THE TOTAL over the last 3 seasons . (Over=-0.4 Units, Under=-0.2 Units)

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NHL
Armadillo's Write-Up

Wednesday, March 23

Hot teams
-- None

Cold teams
-- Ottawa lost its last three road games. Islanders lost six of their last seven games.
-- Bruins lost last three games, outscored 9-3. Rangers lost four of their last six games.

Series records
-- Islanders won five of last eight games with Ottawa.
-- Rangers lost seven of last nine games with Boston.

Totals
-- Six of last seven Ottawa-Islander games stayed under.
-- Under is 5-0-1 in last six Boston games.

Back-to-backs
-- Ottawa is 2-8 if it played the night before.

NHL

Wednesday, March 23

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Trend Report
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7:00 PM
OTTAWA vs. NY ISLANDERS
The total has gone OVER in 9 of Ottawa's last 13 games on the road
The total has gone UNDER in 6 of Ottawa's last 7 games when playing NY Islanders
NY Islanders are 6-2 SU in their last 8 games at home
NY Islanders are 1-6 SU in their last 7 games

8:00 PM
BOSTON vs. NY RANGERS
Boston is 6-15 SU in their last 21 games when playing on the road against NY Rangers
Boston is 1-4 SU in its last 5 games
NY Rangers are 2-7 SU in their last 9 games when playing Boston
NY Rangers are 9-4 SU in their last 13 games at home

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