Monday's NHL Trends and Indexes - 9/7

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Trends and Indexes

Monday, September 7

Good Luck on day #251 of 2020!

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Armadillo: Monday's six-pack

Most career regular season home runs in Dodger Stadium:
130- Eric Karros
123- Ron Cey
118- Steve Garvey
117- Matt Kemp
106- Andre Ethier
92- Mike Piazza

Americans who have died from COVID-19: 188,895
Please wear a mask when you go out.


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Armadillo: Monday's Den: Wrapping up a sports weekend

13) This is baseball, 2020:
In the Miami-Tampa Bay game Sunday, the Marlins’ 41st game this year:
— Miami’s Trevor Rogers threw 100 pitches.
— Tampa Bay’s Tyler Glasnow threw 105 pitches.

It was the first time this season, in Miami’s 41 games, that both starting pitchers threw 100+ pitches in the same game.

12) Atlanta’s Freddie Freeman hit two grand slams in the last three games; in 10 years in the major leagues before this weekend, Freeman had never hit a grand slam.

11) Umpire Joe West threw Washington Nationals’ GM Mike Rizzo out of the game Sunday; the thing is, Rizzo was sitting in a luxury box in the third level of the stadium. With no fans in the ballpark, umpires can hear a lot more of what their critics think of them.

Rizzo got a 3-year contract extension Saturday, so he can afford the fine he’ll get.

10) Astros-Angels played a doubleheader Saturday; it was 109 degrees in Anaheim when the first pitch was thrown. Tough weekend for the catchers in Orange County- it was 106 degrees for Sunday’s game in Anaheim.

9) Toronto leads the Bronx Bombers by a game in the race for 2nd place in the AL East; they play 10 of their last 20 games against each other, starting Monday in Buffalo.

8) Interesting conversation on the YES Network Sunday; top of 7th inning, Orioles led New York 4-1, but the visitors have two men on, with catcher Erik Kratz at bat, tying run at the plate.

Kratz is a career backup, but Gary Sanchez is having a dreadful season, so he’s been benched; if they pinch-hit for Kratz, they pretty much had to put Sanchez in the game, which they obviously didn’t want to do.

The three TV guys then discussed why this was happening, and how manager Aaron Boone isn’t making all the decisions as far as who plays and who doesn’t, the type of manager/front office issues we saw in the movie Moneyball.

It was an unusually frank discussion, and it was good stuff.

7) Sunday was the 25th anniversary of Cal Ripken Jr surpassing Lou Gehrig’s record for most consecutive games played, with 2,131.

Longest current active streak of consecutive games played? Whit Merrifield, 288 games.

6) SMU 31, Texas State 24— Imagine being Texas State and being on ESPN Saturday at 4:30, the only televised football game at that time? What a recruiting bonanza for the Sun Belt’s Bobcats, who hung in with SMU but couldn’t spring the upset- they got good exposure, though, and that sure helps their recruiting.

5) Villanova basketball coach Jay Wright made it known that he doesn’t want to be the 76ers’ head coach. He already has a lucrative gig with more job security.

4) They opened a new sportsbook in the Treasure Island casino in Las Vegas, one of the few strip casinos I’ve never been in. I look forward to seeing it someday.

3) Pittsburgh Steelers cut QB Devlin Hodges, who started six games for them LY and brought back QB Josh Dobbs, who had been a backup in Jacksonville.

2) From Ralph Michaels:
Since 2014 in the NFL, Week 1 divisional underdogs are 21-5-1 ATS.

1) If the baseball playoffs started today (they do not):
AL East- Tampa Bay, Toronto
AL Central- Chicago, Cleveland
AL West- Oakland, Houston
AL Wild Cards- Minnesota, New York

NL East- Atlanta, Philadelphia
NL Central- Chicago, St Louis
NL West- Los Angeles, San Diego
NL Wild Cards- Colorado, Mia/SF

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NHL public betting, odds movement September 7
Patrick Everson

Goaltender Andrei Vasilevskiy and the Lightning are coming off a week's rest entering Game 1 of the Eastern Conference finals against the Islanders. PointsBet USA has Tampa Bay a -160 favorite.

NHL betting odds heat up as the Stanley Cup playoffs reach the opening game of the Eastern Conference finals Monday. The second-seeded Tampa Bay Lightning are right where they expected to be, while the sixth-seeded New York Islanders are perhaps a surprise in this spot.

PointsBet USA provided insights on NHL opening odds and early odds movement, sharp money and public betting for Monday’s contest.

NHL odds movement

Tampa Bay wasted little time getting to this point, winning each of their first two playoff series in five games. So the Lightning are well-rested after finishing off Boston with a 3-2 overtime win Aug. 31. New York got out to a 3-1 lead over Philadelphia in the East semis, but needed seven games to advance, wrapping it up with a 4-0 victory Saturday.

PointsBet USA opened the Lightning -150 and quickly moved to -160 Sunday morning, with the Islanders +135. A little later Sunday, news broke that standout Tampa forward Steven Stamkos – yet to play since the NHL’s restart began – would not play in this series, still recovering from what’s been termed a core muscle injury.

The Stamkos news had no impact on the Game 1 line, but PointsBet USA made a slight series price adjustment on the Islanders, from +170 to +165, with Tampa Bay -200 to advance.

NHL public betting

The Consensus often provides a good indication of where public opinion is, and not surprisingly, the Game 1 lean is toward Tampa Bay. As of Sunday night, the Lightning were landing 63 percent of early Consensus picks.

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33NY ISLANDERS -34 TAMPA BAY
TAMPA BAY is 28-10 ATS (14.6 Units) in road games against good offensive teams - averaging 29.5+ shots on goal per game in the current season.




NHL
Long Sheet

Monday, September 7

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NY ISLANDERS (46-25-0-13, 105 pts.) vs. TAMPA BAY (53-24-0-6, 112 pts.) - 9/7/2020, 8:00 PM
Top Trends for this game.
TAMPA BAY is 115-54 ATS (+176.9 Units) in all games over the last 2 seasons.
TAMPA BAY is 18-7 ATS (+7.8 Units) when playing against a team with a winning record in the second half of the season this season.
NY ISLANDERS are 98-76 ATS (+16.6 Units) in all games over the last 2 seasons.
NY ISLANDERS are 57-39 ATS (+14.7 Units) after a division game over the last 3 seasons.
NY ISLANDERS are 24-18 ATS (+46.5 Units) in road games revenging a loss versus opponent over the last 2 seasons.
NY ISLANDERS are 11-5 ATS (+5.9 Units) in road games after a win by 2 goals or more this season.
NY ISLANDERS are 19-11 ATS (+32.0 Units) in road games after scoring 4 goals or more in their previous game over the last 2 seasons.
NY ISLANDERS are 27-24 ATS (+59.1 Units) in road games when playing against a team with a winning record over the last 2 seasons.

Head-to-Head Series History
NY ISLANDERS is 4-5 (+0.7 Units) against the spread versus TAMPA BAY over the last 3 seasons
TAMPA BAY is 5-4-0 straight up against NY ISLANDERS over the last 3 seasons
4 of 7 games in this series have gone OVER THE TOTAL over the last 3 seasons . (Over=+0.8 Units)

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NHL

Monday, September 7

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Trend Report
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NY Islanders @ Tampa Bay
NY Islanders
NY Islanders is 7-1 ATS in its last 8 games on the road
NY Islanders is 4-1 ATS in its last 5 games when playing Tampa Bay
Tampa Bay
Tampa Bay is 7-1 SU in its last 8 games
The total has gone UNDER in 8 of Tampa Bay's last 10 games at home


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NHL
Dunkel

Monday, September 7

NY Islanders @ Tampa Bay

Game 33-34
September 7, 2020 @ 8:00 pm

Dunkel Rating:
NY Islanders
13.852
Tampa Bay
12.450
Dunkel Team:
Dunkel Line:
Dunkel Total:
NY Islanders
by 1 1/2
6
Vegas Team:
Vegas Line:
Vegas Total:
Tampa Bay
-150
5
Dunkel Pick:
NY Islanders
(+130); Over