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**Udog** · 06-01-2019, 07:15 AM

Armadillo: Saturday's six-pack

College football spreads, released by Golden Nugget Thursday:

— Florida (-7.5) vs Miami in Orlando, August 29

— Auburn (-3) vs Oregon in Arlington, TX, August 31

— Stanford at USC (-3) August 31

— Texas (-7) @ West Virginia October 5

— Florida @ LSU (-4.5) October 12

— LSU (-6.5) @ Mississippi State October 19

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Armadillo: Saturday's List of 13: Clearing out a cluttered mind……

13) Dodgers’ pitcher Hyun-Jin Ryu signed a one-year deal with the Dodgers this year for $18M; he’s having a great season, will get a bigger one-year deal next season. Who knows, he may even get a 2-year deal.

Contrast that to Dallas Keuchel, who is sitting out right now because he couldn’t get a multi-year contract. Keuchel would make more than Ryu if he had agreed to a one-year deal, but right now he is making bupkis this season, zero.

Question is, was it Keuchel who didn’t listen to his agent, or the agent who didn’t listen to Keuchel? At some point, the player has to play in order to get paid, right? Either way, it has been an expensive year for the pitcher. He’ll probably sign somewhere fairly soon.

12) Batters are 2-42 with runners in scoring position against Ryu this season.

11) Mets’ TV guy Todd Zeile played 16 years in the major leagues; he grew up in the Los Angeles area, went to a lot of Dodger games as a kid. Zeile said on air the other night that his father told him that he didn’t believe Zeile was a major league player until he heard Vin Scully say his name on the air, thats how revered Scully is/was in Tinseltown.

10) New Packers’ coach Matt LaFleur tore his achilles tendon playing basketball this week; he is having it operated on Sunday.

9) Since 2008, only two big leaguers have had an OB% of .340+ with 200+ PA in every season:
Joey Votto and……….Shin-Soo Choo

Funny thing about Choo is this; my fantasy team is having a dreadful season, so I’m looking to build for the future a little and Choo is 37- I’ve been looking to move him for prospects but with absolutely no luck, and he is really good. His OPS is .933, which is damn good.

One guy actually thought I was talking about Choi on Tampa Bay, and I’m laughing, thinking “My team is worse than this guy’s and he doesn’t know who the players are.” Oy.

8) Raptors’ coach Nick Nurse was head coach at Grandview College when he was 23 years old; he played at Northern Iowa. There’s a chance one or more of his players at Grandview was older than Nurse was when he was coaching them.

7) Baseball stuff:
— Colorado sent P Kyle Freeland down to AAA.
— Cardinals put C Yadier Molina (thumb) on IL.
— Marlins put 1B Neil Walker (quad) on IL.

6) Tampa Bay Rays have scored in first inning in 25 of their 54 games; they’re 20-5 when they score in the first inning.

Marlins have scored in only nine first innings, fewest in major leagues.

5) Arizona Diamondbacks have seven of the top 75 picks in next week’s baseball draft.

4) My favorite Al Pacino movies:
a) Any Given Sunday
b) Heat
c) Scent of a Woman

3) Cubs/Cardinals are going to play a two-game series next season at London’s West Ham Olympic Stadium on June 13-14, 2020. New York-Boston are heading to London this month.

2) There is a newscaster at WKRN in Nashville named Bob Mueller; you can imagine that the last couple of years have been very interesting for him.

The TV Bob Mueller pronounces his name differently than the lawyer Bob Mueller, but he gets hate mail from people and strange looks when he makes reservations in restaurants. Sometimes real life is stranger than fiction.

1) Los Angeles Angels are driving me nuts with the way they use the “opener”. Tampa Bay uses Ryan Stanek most every time they use an opener, which makes it easy to chart. Angels use just about all their pitchers- they’ve used nine different openers this season, in addition to their four normal starting pitchers.

Makes me wonder when you’re using minor league pitchers to start a game.

**Udog** · 06-01-2019, 07:15 AM

**Udog** · 06-01-2019, 07:16 AM

G3 - Bruins at Blues

Stanley Cup Final Game 3 – Boston Bruins at St. Louis Blues

The Stanley Cup Final heads to St. Louis for Game 3 on Saturday night on NBCSN, as the Boston Bruins visit the St. Louis Blues. This best-of-seven series is tied 1-1 after the Blues pulled out a 3-2 overtime win in Game 2 on Wednesday.

The scene at Enterprise Center on Saturday night will be crazy, as the Blues play their first home game in the Stanley Cup Finals in nearly 50 years.

Let’s look at Game 3.

Boston Bruins at St. Louis Blues

Date and Time: Saturday, June 1, 8:00 p.m. ET
Location: Enterprise Center, St. Louis, MO
Game 3 Odds: Blues -115, O/U 5 Over (-145)
Bruins vs. Blues TV Coverage: NBCSN

The Blues evened up this series as defenseman Carl Gunnarsson scored in overtime to give the Blues a 3-2 win in Game 2 on Wednesday. The teams traded goals in a high scoring first period that ended 2-2 and then neither team scored in the next two periods. Jordan Binnington made 21 saves for the Blues and St. Louis won their first Stanley Cup Final game in history after losing their previous 13.

The Bruins got goals from Charlie Coyle and Joakim Nordstrom and Tuukka Rask made 33 saves for Boston, but the Bruins were outplayed for much of Game 2. The overtime was completely dominated by St. Louis, as the Bruins didn’t even register a shot. The Blues scored after Alexander Steen drew a hooking penalty. "He got a second chance at it and made the most of it," forward Brayden Schenn said to the media about Gunnarsson’s goal. "The boys are happy for him."

The Bruins admitted that they didn’t play as well as they could have on Wednesday. "It was kind of like a crazy first. We got the lead, tie, lead, tie, kind of bounced back and forth," Rask said to the media, "It probably wasn't our best game today."

Boston head coach Bruce Cassidy said to the media that the Blues simply played harder. "They seemed to play with more urgency than they did in Game 1. We played with less. They were on top of us, tighter than in the first game. We didn't seem to win as many races as we did in Game 1," Cassidy said. "Some of that was self-inflicted. Some of that was how they played."

Key Stats

The Bruins are 4-0 in their last 4 road games. The Bruins are 5-1 in their last 6 games as an underdog. The Bruins are 26-8 in their last 34 games playing with 2 days of rest. The Bruins are 45-18 in their last 63 after scoring 2 goals or less in their previous game.

Looking at the total, the Under is 5-0 in the Bruins last 5 road games. The Under is 9-4-1 in the Bruins last 14 games playing with 2 days of rest.

**Udog** · 06-01-2019, 07:17 AM

5Boston -6 St Louis
ST LOUIS are 24-7 ATS (17.4 Units) against good passing teams - averaging 5 or more assists per game in the 2nd half of the year in the current season.

NHL
Dunkel

Saturday, June 1

Boston @ St. Louis

Game 5-6
June 1, 2019 @ 8:00 pm

Dunkel Rating:
Boston
14.843
St. Louis
13.430
Dunkel Team:
Dunkel Line:
Dunkel Total:
Boston
by 1 1/2
4
Vegas Team:
Vegas Line:
Vegas Total:
St. Louis
-120
5
Dunkel Pick:
Boston
(+100); Under

NHL
Long Sheet

Saturday, June 1

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BOSTON (62-29-0-10, 134 pts.) at ST LOUIS (58-34-0-11, 127 pts.) - 6/1/2019, 8:00 PM
Top Trends for this game.
BOSTON is 61-63 ATS (-28.0 Units) revenging a loss versus opponent over the last 3 seasons.
ST LOUIS is 43-23 ATS (+8.7 Units) second half of the season this season.
ST LOUIS is 42-24 ATS (+11.2 Units) in non-conference games over the last 2 seasons.
ST LOUIS is 37-24 ATS (+8.2 Units) when playing against a team with a winning record this season.
ST LOUIS is 25-12 ATS (+12.5 Units) when playing against a team with a winning record in the second half of the season this season.
BOSTON is 14-5 ATS (+8.0 Units) in road games on Saturday games over the last 2 seasons.
BOSTON is 26-8 ATS (+13.8 Units) when playing with 2 days rest over the last 2 seasons.
BOSTON is 37-23 ATS (+7.4 Units) when playing against a team with a winning record this season.

Head-to-Head Series History
ST LOUIS is 4-4 (+0.5 Units) against the spread versus BOSTON over the last 3 seasons
ST LOUIS is 4-4-0 straight up against BOSTON over the last 3 seasons
4 of 8 games in this series have gone OVER THE TOTAL over the last 3 seasons . (Over=+0.2 Units)

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NHL

Saturday, June 1

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Trend Report
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Boston Bruins
Boston is 6-1 ATS in its last 7 games
Boston is 8-1 SU in its last 9 games
The total has gone UNDER in 8 of Boston's last 12 games
Boston is 5-0 ATS in its last 5 games on the road
Boston is 6-1 SU in its last 7 games on the road
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Boston's last 5 games on the road
Boston is 5-2 ATS in its last 7 games when playing St. Louis
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Boston's last 6 games when playing St. Louis
Boston is 5-11 SU in its last 16 games when playing on the road against St. Louis
The total has gone OVER in 6 of Boston's last 9 games when playing on the road against St. Louis
St. Louis Blues
St. Louis is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games
St. Louis is 1-10 ATS in its last 11 games at home
St. Louis is 18-7 SU in its last 25 games at home
St. Louis is 2-5 ATS in its last 7 games when playing Boston
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of St. Louis's last 6 games when playing Boston
St. Louis is 11-5 SU in its last 16 games when playing at home against Boston
The total has gone OVER in 6 of St. Louis's last 9 games when playing at home against Boston

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