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**Udog** · 09-09-2020, 08:22 AM

Armadillo: Wednesday's six-pack

Over/under win totals for NFL teams:
Cincinnati— 5.5 (over -150)
Cleveland— 8.5
Dallas— 10
Denver— 7.5 (over -130)
Detroit— 7 (over -130)
Green Bay— 8.5 (-120)

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Armadillo: Wednesday's Den: Mid-week musings……..

13) Have to be some basketball coaches, both in college and the NBA, who are a little queasy about their jobs today; Billy Donovan won’t be coming back to the Oklahoma City Thunder next year. Thunder went 243-157 under Donovan, 18-23 in playoff games, but may be headed towards a rebuild, so someone else will coach their team going forward.

If Donovan announced he wants to go back to college coaching, how many schools wouldn’t fire their coach to bring him in? His Florida teams are the last back/back NCAA champs.

12) Nigel Richards is a man from New Zealand who memorized every French word in the French scrabble dictionary and won the French Scrabble Championship without being able to speak any French. Why would you even attempt that, and how long did it take him?

Is there big money in Scrabble? Hope the guy made a fortune.

11) Sounds like college basketball could begin this season with a series of events in bubbles around the country, much like the NBA has done in Orlando, giving teams a few games to play out of conference before Christmas.

I’ve heard Mohegan Sun in Connecticut, Sioux Falls SD, Houston as potential bubble sites.

10) It snowed in Colorado, South Dakota this week; it is freakin’ September 9 and it snowed. No bueno.

Denver Broncos had to practice indoors and right before the end of practice, their star LB Von Miller hurt his ankle and is probably out for the season.

9) Orioles 11, Mets 2— This has obviously been a weird season, but right now Baltimore is only a half-game out of a playoff spot in the American League. They lost 115, 108 games the last couple of seasons, but now they’re vastly improved at 20-21.

Random observations; Orioles have very nice hats. Also, their utility guy Pat Valaika is 8-12 against the Mets this season.

8) Padres 14, Rockies 5— If you bet over 8.5, you got to go to bed early; game was 5-3 after the first inning, 10-3 after the second. San Diego won 1-0 Monday night; they scored 10 runs in first two innings of this game.

7) September 7, 1993, guy on the Cardinals named Mark Whiten hit four home runs in one game, knocked in 12 runs. Imagine going up against him in fantasy that week? Quite a night.

I bring this up because two of the four home runs that night were hit against a Reds’ pitcher named Mike Anderson, who was making his major league debut.

Mike Anderson is the brother of Brian Anderson, who is now the play-by-play guy for the Milwaukee Brewers; he also does NBA games on TNT. Brian Anderson was talking about that game with Stan Van Gundy on the NBA broadcast the other night; they were laughing, but if Mike was listening at home, maybe he wasn’t.

6) Marlins 8, Braves 0— Rookie Sixto Sanchez threw six shutout innings; Miami is 19-18 and would be in the playoffs if they started today.

5) NBA Draft was pushed back to October 16; no way the next NBA regular season starts before Christmas, maybe not even until Martin Luther King Day in January.

4) NBA players apparently bring their own food to the bubble every day; Celtics’ star Jayson Tatum brings his lunch in a Lion King lunchbox, the square, metal kind of lunchbox we all used when we were kids. Pretty cool.

I had a Volkswagen bus lunchbox back in the day; they opened a new VW dealership near my house and they were giving them away.

3) Miami 103, Milwaukee 94 (Heat wins 4-1)
— Giannis Antetokounmpo sat this one out with a bad ankle.
— Miami’s four subs were a combined +68.

2) Lakers 112, Houston 102 (LA leads 2-1)
— Kuzma/Rondo shot a combined 15-21 off the bench.
— Rockets’ starters other than Harden/Westbrook shot combined 7-19.
— Houston scored 64 points in first half, 38 in second half.

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- Miami, San Francisco

**Udog** · 09-09-2020, 08:24 AM

NHL public betting, odds movement September 9
Patrick Everson

The Islanders got belted 8-2 in Game 1 and hope to rebound against the Lightning in Wednesday's Game 2. The SuperBook at Westgate opened the moneyline at Tampa Bay -160/New York +145.

NHL betting odds are on the board as the race for the Stanley Cup continues Wednesday with Game 2 of the Eastern Conference finals. The New York Islanders aim to bounce back against the Tampa Bay Lightning inside the Edmonton playoff bubble.

The SuperBook at Westgate provided insights on NHL opening odds and early odds movement, sharp money and public betting for Wednesday’s contest.

NHL odds movement

Tampa Bay got a week’s worth of rest ahead of Monday’s East finals opener, and it showed as the Lightning boatraced the Islanders by a whopping 8-2 count. The SuperBook opened the Lightning -160 for an 8 p.m. ET Game 2 start, with the Islanders +145, and there was no line movement through Tuesday night.

The total opened at 5.5, with the Under juiced to -130, and that price went to -135 for several hours Tuesday before going back to -130.

NHL public betting

The Consensus indicates the public expects more of the same in Game 2, with favorite and Over proving popular. As of late Tuesday night, the Lightning were landing 72 percent of moneyline picks against the Islanders, and the Over was attracting 75 percent of picks.

**Udog** · 09-09-2020, 08:28 AM

37NY ISLANDERS -38 TAMPA BAY
TAMPA BAY is 29-10 ATS (15.6 Units) in road games against good offensive teams - averaging 29.5+ shots on goal per game in the current season.

NHL
Long Sheet

Wednesday, September 9

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NY ISLANDERS (46-26-0-13, 105 pts.) vs. TAMPA BAY (54-24-0-6, 114 pts.) - 9/9/2020, 8:00 PM
Top Trends for this game.
TAMPA BAY is 116-54 ATS (+178.1 Units) in all games over the last 2 seasons.
TAMPA BAY is 17-5 ATS (+8.3 Units) after a 3 game unbeaten streak this season.
TAMPA BAY is 19-7 ATS (+8.8 Units) when playing against a team with a winning record in the second half of the season this season.
NY ISLANDERS are 98-77 ATS (+15.7 Units) in all games over the last 2 seasons.
NY ISLANDERS are 24-19 ATS (+47.8 Units) in road games revenging a loss versus opponent over the last 2 seasons.
NY ISLANDERS are 27-25 ATS (+60.5 Units) in road games when playing against a team with a winning record over the last 2 seasons.

Head-to-Head Series History
TAMPA BAY is 6-4-0 straight up against NY ISLANDERS over the last 3 seasons
5 of 8 games in this series have gone OVER THE TOTAL over the last 3 seasons . (Over=+1.8 Units)

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NHL

Wednesday, September 9

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Trend Report
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NY Islanders @ Tampa Bay
NY Islanders
NY Islanders is 7-2 ATS in its last 9 games on the road
NY Islanders is 6-3 SU in its last 9 games on the road
Tampa Bay
Tampa Bay is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games
Tampa Bay is 4-1 ATS in its last 5 games

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**Udog** · 09-09-2020, 09:46 AM

NHL
Dunkel

Wednesday, September 9

NY Islanders @ Tampa Bay

Game 37-38
September 9, 2020 @ 8:00 pm

Dunkel Rating:
NY Islanders
13.151
Tampa Bay
12.116
Dunkel Team:
Dunkel Line:
Dunkel Total:
NY Islanders
by 1
7
Vegas Team:
Vegas Line:
Vegas Total:
Tampa Bay
-165
5 1/2
Dunkel Pick:
NY Islanders
(+145); Over

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