Thursday's NHL Trends and Indexes - 4/28

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Trends and Indexes

Thursday, April 28

Good Luck on day #119 of 2016!

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Armadillo: Thursday's six-pack

-- Warriors 114, Rockets 81-- Not exactly a prideful effort by Houston.

-- Hornets 90, Heat 88-- Charlotte won three games in row after being down 2-0.

-- Blazers 108, Clippers 98-- Hard to win when your floor general breaks his hand.

-- Nashville 2, Anaheim 1-- Was first-ever Game 7 for the Predators.

-- White Sox 4, Blue Jays 0-- Surprising Pale Hose are 16-6, best record in AL.

-- Marlins 2, Dodgers 0-- Mattingly beat his old team the last three nights.

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Armadillo: Thursday's List of 13: Doing some thinking out loud.......

13) NFL Draft is tonight; since 1967, USC (68) has had the most first round draft picks, followed by Miami (58), Ohio State (56), Florida (46).

12) I enjoyed the mock draft on NFL Network this week, despite occasional screaming/yelling whenever Michael Irvin got involved. It was a little bit like a fantasy draft but without the laboring over picks, since mock drafts don't have any accountability, the way real teams or even fantasy teams have.

11) Giants' pitcher Jeff Samardzija was a pretty good WR in college; he scored 27 TDs and averaged 14.5 yards/catch.

10) RIP Ozzie Silna, former owner of the Spirits of St Louis of the old ABA, who reaped a bonanza from the NBA when he agreed to fold the Spirits before the NBA-ABA merger in 1976. One of the greatest business deals of all-time, Silna was paid millions and millions of dollars to do absolutely nothing.

9) Houston Astros are 7-15 and in trouble; its not just that they're losing lot of games, they're playing sloppily and their pitching has regressed.

8) Oakland and Detroit brought up their ace pitching prospects to make starts on Friday. A's will have Sean Manaea starting against Houston, Tigers gave Michael Fullmer the call to start against the Twins in Minnesota.

7) A's signed 36-year old lefty Rich Hill as a starter this year; Hill is 3-0, 1.42 in his first three road starts, but is 0-2, 9.00 in two starts at the normally pitcher-friendly Oakland Coliseum.

6) Detroit Tigers are paying Texas $6M a year for the next five years, part of the deal that sent Prince Fielder packing from the Motor City. As Billy Beane said to David Justice in Moneyball, "They're paying you to play against them."

5) San Diego Padres are 0-5 when James Sheidls starts on the mound; they've scored a total of six runs in his five starts. Padres are also the only team that hasn't scored a first inning run on the road this season (10 games).

4) Eric Byrnes is the only player (Oakland, 2003) who has hit for the cycle at AT&T Park in San Francisco. Pablo Sandoval is the last Giant to hit for the cycle-- would like to see a clip of the triple he hit.

3) Georgia Tech still owes former basketball coach Paul Hewitt $2.7M; he has not been the coach there since 2011. Quite a deal his agent made for him.

2) Columbia graduate transfer Grant Mullins chose Cal over Michigan; young Mullins is a 6-3 guard who shot 44.1% on the arc last year.

1) Cool thing about the NFL Draft is that no one knows what will happen when these college kids become pros this summer. Flash back to 1998, just as many people liked Ryan Leaf as Peyton Manning. How did that turn out?

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NHL
Long Sheet

Thursday, April 28

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PITTSBURGH (52-27-0-8, 112 pts.) at WASHINGTON (60-20-0-8, 128 pts.) - 4/28/2016, 7:00 PM
Top Trends for this game.
PITTSBURGH is 72-94 ATS (-47.6 Units) when playing with 3 or more days rest since 1996.
PITTSBURGH is 33-37 ATS (-22.0 Units) vs. division opponents over the last 2 seasons.
PITTSBURGH is 45-52 ATS (-32.6 Units) after scoring 4 goals or more in their previous game over the last 3 seasons.
WASHINGTON is 60-28 ATS (+26.8 Units) in all games this season.
WASHINGTON is 47-25 ATS (+19.0 Units) revenging a loss versus opponent over the last 2 seasons.
PITTSBURGH is 52-35 ATS (+4.8 Units) in all games this season.
PITTSBURGH is 18-11 ATS (+29.2 Units) in a road game where where the total is 5 or less this season.
PITTSBURGH is 34-16 ATS (+11.6 Units) second half of the season this season.
WASHINGTON is 38-44 ATS (-32.7 Units) in home games when playing with 3 or more days rest since 1996.
WASHINGTON is 17-26 ATS (-20.9 Units) in home games after shutting out their opponent in their previous game since 1996.

Head-to-Head Series History
PITTSBURGH is 8-5 (+2.2 Units) against the spread versus WASHINGTON over the last 3 seasons
PITTSBURGH is 8-5-0 straight up against WASHINGTON over the last 3 seasons
8 of 12 games in this series have gone UNDER THE TOTAL over the last 3 seasons . (Under=+3.7 Units)

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NHL
Short Sheet

Thursday, April 28

Pittsburgh at Washington, 8:05 PM ET
Pittsburgh: 8-1 ATS in road games after 2 consecutive division games
Washington: 3-13 ATS after 3 games where both teams scored 2 goals or less




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Armadillo's Write-Up

Thursday, April 28

Pittsburgh-Washington (0-0)
Pens-Caps split last ten series games, with road team going 5-2 in last seven series games. Pittsburgh is 3-1 in last four visits here; over is 3-1-2 in last six series games. Penguins won eight of last tn games; winning last three while allowing total of four goals- they dispatched Rangers Sunday- over is 6-2-1 in their last nine games. Washington beat Philly in six games despite scoring total of only two goals in last three games- they've been off since Monday. Under is 5-1-1 in Washington's last seven games.

Playoffs tally: 1st round-- Home: 23-24, Over: 16-17-14
2nd round-- Home: 0-1, Over: 1-0




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Thursday, April 28

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Trend Report
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8:00 PM
PITTSBURGH vs. WASHINGTON
The total has gone UNDER in 8 of Pittsburgh's last 12 games when playing on the road against Washington
Pittsburgh is 6-2 SU in its last 8 games when playing on the road against Washington
Washington is 2-4 SU in its last 6 games at home
Washington is 5-12 SU in its last 17 games when playing Pittsburgh


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NHL
Dunkel

Thursday, April 28


Pittsburgh @ Washington

Game 1-2
April 28, 2016 @ 8:00 pm

Dunkel Rating:
Pittsburgh
11.488
Washington
12.805
Dunkel Team:
Dunkel Line:
Dunkel Total:
Washington
by 1 1/2
3 1/2
Vegas Team:
Vegas Line:
Vegas Total:
Washington
-135
5
Dunkel Pick:
Washington
(-135); Under