Friday's NHL Trends and Indexes - 5/20

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Trends and Indexes

Friday, May 20

Good Luck on day #141 of 2016!

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Armadillo: Friday's six-pack

Golden Nugget sportsbook's college football over/unders for this coming fall..........

-- Clemson Tigers, 10, over -$120

-- Alabama Crimson Tide, 9.5

-- Florida State Seminoles, 10, over -$120

-- Oklahoma Sooners, 10, under -$130

-- LSU Tigers, 9.5, over 9.5 -$140

-- Michigan Wolverines, 9.5, over -$120

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Armadillo: Friday's List of 13: Random stuff with weekend here......

13) I'm tired of hearing people whine about baseball games lasting too long, as if an extra 8-10 minutes is going to ruin someone's day. Want to eliminate 8-10 minutes a game? Eliminate coaches/managers visiting the mound, that will do it. Whether a game is 2:52 or 3:05, baseball is great. Nothing wrong with spending more time having fun.

12) Saw couple of amazing catches in 9th inning of games last night; Minnesota CF Danny Santana made a fantastic catch, keeping the game 2-2 with the go-ahead run on second base and Rafael Ortega of the Angels made a sliding catch down left field line to help the Halos hold off the Dodgers 7-4.

11) Nationals 9, Mets 1-- Matt Harvey is 3-6, 5.77 and terribly overrated. Last year, New York media had him getting inducted in Cooperstown before he turned 27. Last night, Harvey went over the 500 innings mark in his career- he is 30-24.

10) Austin Russell, better known as Chumlee on Pawn Stars, somehow avoided jail time after at one time having 19 felony drug charges against him. Hope he realizes how lucky he is; when I was in Las Vegas in April, it seemed apparent that he was going to jail and maybe for a very long time.

9) Pro Bowl is moving from Honolulu to Orlando this comng year; for some reason, it was mentioned that Sydney, Australia was interested in hosting it. Why?

8) Orlando Magic gave Frank Vogel $22M for four years- first Magic-Pacer game next fall should be interesting.

7) Buck Showalter once managed a team in the NY-Penn League, a short-season farm team. He went 114-41 in Oneonta, hometown of ESPN's Mark May, and also the place where John Elway played his minor league baseball.

6) In case you are wondering, Elway hit .318 with a .432 OB% that year, for a 43-33 Oneonta team that was managed by former White Sox CF Ken Berry.

5) Drew Pomeranz has pitched well for San Diego but they haven't hit much for him; in Pomeranz' last four starts, a total of seven runs have scored.

4) Stan Musial hit three homers in a game at age 42, the oldest player to do so.

3) Angels are 22-1 in Mike Trout's career when he scores 3+ runs in a game.

2) Not only did Texas A&M's basketball team lose four senior starters this year, three of their assistant coaches also bolted for other jobs, so Billy Kennedy is totally rebuilding his program- he hired Don Maestri, who coached Troy State for 30 years and will now be someone Kennedy can lean on for advice. .

1) Chargers signed Zach Mettenberger as a backup QB; Giants/Bengals also had interest n the former LSU signal-caller. Backing up Philip Rivers seems like good duty; Rivers has started every San Diego game for the last decade.

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NHL
Long Sheet

Friday, May 20

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PITTSBURGH (58-29-0-9, 125 pts.) at TAMPA BAY (55-34-0-6, 116 pts.) - 5/20/2016, 8:05 PM
Top Trends for this game.
PITTSBURGH is 45-54 ATS (-35.5 Units) after scoring 4 goals or more in their previous game over the last 3 seasons.
TAMPA BAY is 37-20 ATS (+4.3 Units) second half of the season this season.
TAMPA BAY is 21-10 ATS (+31.5 Units) when trailing in a playoff series since 1996.
TAMPA BAY is 33-14 ATS (+15.3 Units) after allowing 4 goals or more over the last 2 seasons.
TAMPA BAY is 30-13 ATS (+12.2 Units) after a loss by 2 goals or more in their previous game over the last 2 seasons.
TAMPA BAY is 201-211 ATS (+494.5 Units) when playing against a team with a winning record in the second half of the season since 1996.
PITTSBURGH is 58-38 ATS (+7.0 Units) in all games this season.
PITTSBURGH is 20-13 ATS (+33.3 Units) in a road game where where the total is 5 or less this season.
PITTSBURGH is 40-19 ATS (+13.7 Units) second half of the season this season.

Head-to-Head Series History
PITTSBURGH is 7-5 (+1.1 Units) against the spread versus TAMPA BAY over the last 3 seasons
PITTSBURGH is 7-5-0 straight up against TAMPA BAY over the last 3 seasons
9 of 11 games in this series have gone OVER THE TOTAL over the last 3 seasons . (Over=+6.7 Units)

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NHL
Armadillo's Write-Up

Friday, May 20

Tampa Bay-Pittsburgh (P 2-1)
Penguins scored first goal of Game 3 with 0:10 left in second period, as they gained control of series vs backup goalie Vasilevsky. Lightning won five of last seven home games- under is 3-1-1 in their last five games. Pittsburgh is 6-2 in its last eight games, going 3-2 in last five on road. Tampa Bay won five of its last eight games with Penguins- they won three of last four played here. Over is 8-1-1 in last ten series games, but under is 5-3-3 in last ten Tampa Bay games overall. Lightning is 1-4 on power play in first three games in this series, Pittsburgh is 2-9.

Playoffs tally: 1st round-- Home: 23-24, Over: 16-17-14
2nd round-- Home: 16-9, Over: 11-5-9
Conference finals-- Home 3-3, Over 1-4-1




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Friday, May 20

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Trend Report
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8:00 PM
PITTSBURGH vs. TAMPA BAY
The total has gone OVER in 7 of Pittsburgh's last 8 games when playing on the road against Tampa Bay
The total has gone OVER in 15 of Pittsburgh's last 18 games when playing Tampa Bay
Tampa Bay is 6-2 SU in its last 8 games at home
Tampa Bay is 4-2 SU in its last 6 games when playing Pittsburgh


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NHL
Dunkel

Friday, May 20


Pittsburgh @ Tampa Bay

Game 13-14
May 20, 2016 @ 8:00 pm

Dunkel Rating:
Pittsburgh
11.969
Tampa Bay
13.557
Dunkel Team:
Dunkel Line:
Dunkel Total:
Tampa Bay
by 1 1/2
6
Vegas Team:
Vegas Line:
Vegas Total:
Pittsburgh
-145
5
Dunkel Pick:
Tampa Bay
(+125); Over

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NHL
Short Sheet

Friday, May 20

Pittsburgh at Tampa Bay, 8:05 PM ET
Pittsburgh: 30-16 SU after playing a road game
Tampa Bay: 7-12 SU revenging a loss where opponent scored 4 or more goals