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**Udog** · 02-06-2019, 09:19 AM

Armadillo: Wednesday's six-pack

— Happy birthday to the great Hank Aaron, who turned 85 Tuesday.

— Pacers 136, Lakers 94— Lebron James’ worst loss in the NBA.

— Illinois 79, Michigan State 74— Third straight loss for the Spartans.

— St John’s 70, Marquette 69— Very big win for Chris Mullin’s team.

— Kansas State 74, Kansas 67— This was the Wildcats’ Super Bowl.

— New Mexico 83, San Diego State 70— Aztecs are 1-4 on Mountain West road.

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

13) Happy New Year to any Chinese friends we may have reading this: 2019 is Year of the Pig. This is from chinesenewyear.net:

“The Pig is the twelfth of all zodiac animals. According to one myth, the Jade Emperor said the order would be decided by the order in which they arrived to his party. Pig was late because he overslept. Another story says that a wolf destroyed his house. He had to rebuild his home before he could set off. When he arrived, he was the last one and could only take twelfth place.”

12) Looks like the bubble for the Field of 68 in March isn’t going to be very strong; Indiana just lost seven games in a row, and they’re still hanging on to one of the play-in spots.

Nebraska has been awful recently, losing their last five games; they’re 3-8 in the Big 14 and they’re not even listed as a 10-seed, not even a play-in team. They’re not a good team.

St John’s lost five of its last eight games, losing by 30 at Duke, but they’re an 11-seed.

A lot of this will play itself out, but the quality of college basketball has dropped a lot the last few years— just not as many real good teams, even with the big boys poaching role players from low major schools. Too many kids leave school early, hoping to get to the NBA, but they wind up in the G-League or in Europe. Staying in school would help them, and would help college ball.

11) Washington is the best team in the Pac-12; right now, they’re listed as an 8-seed, which means they probably don’t get out of the first weekend, if they even win a game. The Pac-12 is having a terrible season, in large part because they have a ton of inexperienced players.

10) Washington Wizards’ star John Wall ruptured an achilles tendon, is out for a year; he last played Dec 26, had one procedure Jan 8 for a lesser achilles injury, then fell in his home and thats when his achilles tendon ruptured.

Wall has four years left on his contract after this year; he is scheduled to make $169.2M during those four years. No pressure on the surgeon who fixes his Achilles.

9) Michigan State loses G Joshua Langford for the season with an ankle injury; he was averaging 28.6 mpg, scoring 15.0 ppg, 2.3 assists/game and 3.6 rebounds/game. Spartans lost their last three games, at Purdue, Illinois and at home to Indiana, after an 18-1 start.

8) Eagles put the franchise tag on Nick Foles, in hopes of getting a 3rd-round draft pick in a trade for him, but then Foles negated that option by saying he’d pay Philly $2M to become a free agent.

There are several teams who need a quarterback.

7) Tennessee is #1 in country in basketball, but the last time Tennessee won the SEC basketball tournament was 1979; ten other schools have won the SEC tourney since then.

6) Why did Texas dump Rick Barnes? Longhorns are 16-29 in Big X games the last three years, and don’t play the “havoc” style that made Shaka Smart’s VCU teams successful. Smart seems out of place at Texas; at VCU, he out-recruited his league and pressed successfully.

Barnes is 31-15 in SEC games the last three years at Tennessee.

5) Right now, Cal-Irvine and Stony Brook are the only two college basketball teams with ten road wins this season.

4) NBA teams with worst records vs spread on second night of back/backs:
Celtics 0-7, Nets 1-9, Kings 2-8, 76ers 2-6

NBA teams with best records vs spread on second night of back/backs:
Raptors 7-2, Wizards 6-2, Hornets 5-2, Nuggets 5-2-1

3) The new AAF that starts this weekend has no kickoffs, and teams that score TD’s have to go for 2 points every time- no PAT’s. No TV timeouts; games are expected to last 2:30 at most.

2) Odd fact: Baltimore/Indianapolis Colts have played in four Super Bowls, all of which were played in Miami. Next year’s Super Bowl is in Miami.

1) Sports Illustrated throws a party the night before the Super Bowl every year; saw a clip on Twitter of this year’s party, where Snoop Dawg was talking to Urban Meyer for a couple minutes. Would’ve been fun to listen in on that; talk about worlds colliding. Snoop does know his football, though.

**Udog** · 02-06-2019, 09:50 AM

NHL
Long Sheet

Wednesday, February 6

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OTTAWA (19-28-0-5, 43 pts.) at TORONTO (32-17-0-3, 67 pts.) - 2/6/2019, 7:35 PM
Top Trends for this game.
TORONTO is 10-0 ATS (+10.0 Units) in home games in February games over the last 2 seasons.
TORONTO is 15-4 ATS (+7.9 Units) after a non-conference game this season.
TORONTO is 39-20 ATS (+15.5 Units) revenging a loss versus opponent over the last 2 seasons.
OTTAWA is 57-62 ATS (+145.2 Units) when playing against a team with a winning record over the last 3 seasons.
TORONTO is 150-153 ATS (-83.0 Units) in home games after scoring 4 goals or more in their previous game since 1996.
TORONTO is 399-409 ATS (-81.0 Units) when playing against a team with a losing record since 1996.
TORONTO is 190-211 ATS (-105.1 Units) when playing against a team with a losing record in the second half of the season since 1996.

Head-to-Head Series History
OTTAWA is 6-3 (+5.7 Units) against the spread versus TORONTO over the last 3 seasons
OTTAWA is 6-3-0 straight up against TORONTO over the last 3 seasons
8 of 9 games in this series have gone OVER THE TOTAL over the last 3 seasons . (Over=+6.9 Units)

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BOSTON (29-17-0-7, 65 pts.) at NY RANGERS (22-22-0-8, 52 pts.) - 2/6/2019, 8:05 PM
Top Trends for this game.
BOSTON is 49-56 ATS (-27.9 Units) revenging a loss versus opponent over the last 3 seasons.
NY RANGERS are 91-110 ATS (-37.5 Units) in a home game where the total is 6 or more since 1996.
NY RANGERS are 20-31 ATS (-17.9 Units) in home games second half of the season over the last 3 seasons.
NY RANGERS are 81-90 ATS (-53.3 Units) in home games after a non-conference game since 1996.
NY RANGERS are 117-149 ATS (-100.1 Units) in home games after allowing 4 goals or more since 1996.
NY RANGERS are 208-246 ATS (-149.0 Units) in home games when playing against a team with a winning record since 1996.
NY RANGERS are 118-140 ATS (-52.9 Units) in home games when playing against a team with a winning record in the second half of the season since 1996.

Head-to-Head Series History
NY RANGERS is 6-1 (+7.2 Units) against the spread versus BOSTON over the last 3 seasons
NY RANGERS is 6-1-0 straight up against BOSTON over the last 3 seasons
4 of 7 games in this series have gone OVER THE TOTAL over the last 3 seasons . (Over=+1.0 Units)

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NHL

Wednesday, February 6

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Trend Report
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Ottawa Senators
Ottawa is 8-4 ATS in its last 12 games
Ottawa is 1-4 SU in its last 5 games
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Ottawa's last 5 games
Ottawa is 4-2 ATS in its last 6 games on the road
Ottawa is 6-12 ATS in its last 18 games on the road
Ottawa is 6-18 SU in its last 24 games on the road
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Ottawa's last 6 games on the road
Ottawa is 6-1 ATS in its last 7 games when playing Toronto
Ottawa is 10-3 SU in its last 13 games when playing Toronto
The total has gone OVER in 5 of Ottawa's last 5 games when playing Toronto
Ottawa is 4-1 ATS in its last 5 games when playing on the road against Toronto
Ottawa is 6-1 SU in its last 7 games when playing on the road against Toronto
The total has gone OVER in 4 of Ottawa's last 5 games when playing on the road against Toronto
Toronto Maple Leafs
Toronto is 2-4 ATS in its last 6 games
The total has gone UNDER in 8 of Toronto's last 12 games
Toronto is 3-8 ATS in its last 11 games at home
Toronto is 1-6 ATS in its last 7 games when playing Ottawa
Toronto is 3-10 SU in its last 13 games when playing Ottawa
The total has gone OVER in 5 of Toronto's last 5 games when playing Ottawa
Toronto is 1-4 ATS in its last 5 games when playing at home against Ottawa
Toronto is 1-6 SU in its last 7 games when playing at home against Ottawa
The total has gone OVER in 4 of Toronto's last 5 games when playing at home against Ottawa

Boston Bruins
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Boston's last 5 games
Boston is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games on the road
The total has gone UNDER in 16 of Boston's last 22 games on the road
Boston is 1-7 ATS in its last 8 games when playing NY Rangers
Boston is 1-8 SU in its last 9 games when playing NY Rangers
Boston is 1-5 SU in its last 6 games when playing on the road against NY Rangers
The total has gone OVER in 4 of Boston's last 5 games when playing on the road against NY Rangers
New York Rangers
NY Rangers is 8-15 SU in its last 23 games
NY Rangers is 2-7 SU in its last 9 games at home
The total has gone OVER in 6 of NY Rangers's last 8 games at home
NY Rangers is 7-1 ATS in its last 8 games when playing Boston
NY Rangers is 8-1 SU in its last 9 games when playing Boston
NY Rangers is 5-1 SU in its last 6 games when playing at home against Boston
The total has gone OVER in 4 of NY Rangers's last 5 games when playing at home against Boston

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**Udog** · 02-06-2019, 11:08 AM

NHL
Dunkel

Wednesday, February 6

Ottawa @ Toronto

Game 25-26
February 6, 2019 @ 7:30 pm

Dunkel Rating:
Ottawa
9.881
Toronto
11.762
Dunkel Team:
Dunkel Line:
Dunkel Total:
Toronto
by 2
6
Vegas Team:
Vegas Line:
Vegas Total:
Toronto
-300
6 1/2
Dunkel Pick:
Toronto
(-300); Under

Boston @ NY Rangers

Game 27-28
February 6, 2019 @ 8:00 pm

Dunkel Rating:
Boston
10.362
NY Rangers
11.338
Dunkel Team:
Dunkel Line:
Dunkel Total:
NY Rangers
by 1
7
Vegas Team:
Vegas Line:
Vegas Total:
Boston
-145
6
Dunkel Pick:
NY Rangers
(+125); Over

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