Friday's NHL Trends and Indexes - 4/7

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Trends and Indexes

Friday, April 7

Good Luck on day #96 of 2017!

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Armadillo: Friday's six-pack

— Baylor’s Jonathan Motley tore his MCL in the South Carolina loss; will that cause him to come back to school next year, or will he still enter the NBA Draft?

— Houston Astros shifted their defense 2,236 times LY, 347 more times than anyone else.

— Duke’s Luke Kennard is off to the NBA Draft; Blue Devils will once again have a lot of new faces.

— Red Sox SS Xander Bogaerts is on the bereavement list, is out until Monday.

— Ryan Howard signed a minor league deal with Atlanta; surprised it wasn’t with an AL team, where he could DH.

— Irony: The Kentucky Coal Museum is installing solar panels to save on energy costs.

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

13) RIP Don Rickles, 90, the comedian who became famous by insulting EVERYONE. The guy busted Frank Sinatra’s chops and got away with it- not many people did that. Rickles wasn’t the least bit politically correct, back in an era where people could laugh at themselves instead of being so damn sensitive, the way we are these days.

Reading social media Thursday; Rickles was beloved by modern entertainers, from Chris Rock to Jimmy Kimmel. RIP, sir.

12) Saw a great story of how Rickles was in Tommy Lasorda’s office in Dodger Stadium late in the 1977 baseball season; Lasorda told him to put a uniform on and sit next to him on the bench, so he did.

In the sixth inning, Lasorda tells Rickles to go out and change pitchers; seriously, he did, and Rickles went out and changed pitchers, though the pitcher (Elias Sosa) apparently wasn’t real happy about it. Harry Wendelstedt was the ump; when he went to the mound and saw it was Rickles, he asked him if he could get him tickets to see Dean Martin in Las Vegas.

11) I’m watching the Padres this week and I’m wondering, if Trayce Thompson was a Padre, would he hit 4th or 5th? With the Dodgers, he is in AAA.

10) San Diego’s TV analyst Mark Grant owns a Toyota with 274,000 miles on it; that must be one hell of a car.

9) Dustin Johnson withdrew from The Masters; here at SouthPoint, they refunded bets made on Johnson, but at William Hill sportsbooks, there were no refunds. Would be a cold day in hell before they got any more of my business- thats just common sense.

8) When the Giants lost in Arizona Sunday, after Madison Bumgarner homered twice, it was just the third time since 1960 that a pitcher homered twice in a game that his team lost.

7) Mets faced a lefty last night and Wilmer Flores batted cleanup; I’m thinking, jeez thats not good, but Terry Collins is a sharp guy— Flores homered to break the game open as the Mets won 6-2.

6) Reds 7, Phillies 4— Not often the game-winning hit is a pinch-hit HR by a pitcher, but Michael Lorenzen got one here- it is the first pinch-hit HR by a pitcher since 2009, when Micah Owings hit one, also for Cincinnati.

5) Stanford-Notre Dame played a regional final in the womens’ tournament in Rupp Arena in Lexington, a building that seats 23,000- they drew 2,527 fans. Only one of the four regional finals in the womens’ tournament drew more than 3,200 fans.

4) December 5, hoop doubleheader in Phoenix: St John’s-Grand Canyon, Arizona-Texas A&M.

Chris Mullin must think his team will be pretty good next year; they’re involved in another twinbill, this one in Staples Center; St John’s-Arizona State and Oklahoma-USC.

3) Atlanta Hawks’ Thabo Sefolosha banked a $4M settlement from an incident outside a New York City nightclub couple years ago where the NYPD beat him up pretty good and broke his leg. The incident was captured on film, which usually helps the plaintiff.

2) A woman on Jeopardy lost $17,200 on Final Jeopardy because she couldn’t come up with the Raptors as the answer— she guessed Timberwolves as “the animal that is this NBA team’s primary mascot peaked 75 million years ago.”

1— Quote of the Day, Part 2: “Isaiah Briscoe leaving UK. Don’t want to be mean-spirited but not sure he has single NBA skill. And shooting is critical for NBA guard.”
ESPN’s Fran Fraschilla, who isn’t normally very critical.

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NHL
Armadillo's Write-Up

Friday, April 7

Montreal won eight of last ten games with Tampa Bay; over is 4-3 in last seven series games. Lightning lost last four games in Molson Centre. Tampa Bay won six of its last eight games, three of last four on road. Three of their last four games stayed under. Canadiens won five of last six games overall, three in row at home. Under is 6-1-1 in their last eight games.




NHL

Friday, April 7

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Trend Report
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8:30 PM
TAMPA BAY vs. MONTREAL
Tampa Bay is 6-2 SU in its last 8 games
Tampa Bay is 1-6 SU in its last 7 games when playing Montreal
Montreal is 5-1 SU in its last 6 games
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Montreal's last 6 games


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NHL
Long Sheet

Friday, April 7

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TAMPA BAY (40-30-0-10, 90 pts.) at MONTREAL (46-25-0-9, 101 pts.) - 4/7/2017, 7:35 PM
There are no Top Trends with records of significance that apply to this game.

Head-to-Head Series History
TAMPA BAY is 10-8-0 straight up against MONTREAL over the last 3 seasons
11 of 18 games in this series have gone OVER THE TOTAL over the last 3 seasons . (Over=+4.4 Units)

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Dunkel

Friday, April 7


Tampa Bay @ Montreal

Game 51-52
April 7, 2017 @ 7:30 pm

Dunkel Rating:
Tampa Bay
11.978
Montreal
10.736
Dunkel Team:
Dunkel Line:
Dunkel Total:
Tampa Bay
by 1
7
Vegas Team:
Vegas Line:
Vegas Total:
Montreal
-140
5
Dunkel Pick:
Tampa Bay
(+120); Over

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NHL
Short Sheet

Friday, April 7

Tampa Bay at Montreal, 7:35 PM ET
Tampa Bay: 4-14 SU in a road game where where the total is 5 or less
Montreal: 8-0 SU in home games after allowing 2 goals or less in 4 straight games

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NHL

Friday, April 7


Canadiens are 5-1 in their last 6 overall.
Lightning are 0-4 in the last 4 meetings in Montreal.
TB 111 MON -123