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**Udog** · 09-12-2020, 09:18 AM

Armadillo: Saturday's six-pack

Major league leaders in OPS:
1.257— Juan Soto, Wash
1.089— Nelson Cruz, Minn
1.081— Freddie Freeman, Atl
1.065— Mike Trout, LAA
1.051— Dominic Smith, NYM
1.049— Trea Turner, Wash

Americans who have died from COVID-19: 192,616
Please wear a mask when you go out.

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Armadillo:Saturday's Den: Wrapping up a busy Friday

13) Boston 92, Toronto 87 (Celtics win 4-3)
— Celtics held Toronto to 16 points in 4th quarter.
— Teams combined to make 17-66 on the arc.
— Jayson Tatum led Boston with 29 points.
— Celtics advance to the Eastern Conference final.

12) Nuggets 111, LA Clippers 105 (LA leads 3-2)
— Denver outscored LA 38-25 in 4th quarter to stay alive.
— Michael Porter scored Denver’s last 7 points, his only points of the game.

11) Tampa Bay 11, Red Sox 1— Rays are first team since at least 1900 to start nine lefty hitters in a game, with none of them switch-hitters.

10) Two more random facts from Thursday’s NFL games:
— There were only five plays of 20+ yards in Thursday’s game; Chiefs had two of them. Last year, Kansas City averaged 4.25 plays/game of 20+ yards
— Chiefs had a 15-yard advantage in average field position, which is unusually big.

9) Happy birthday to the great NBA player Bob Lanier, who turned 72 this week; to show how great Lanier was in college, he led St Bonaventure to the 1971 Final Four. Think about that; St Bonaventure is located in the middle of freakin’ nowhere, in the southern tier of central New York; for them to make the Final Four was amazing.

He was a great college player, but tore his knee up in the regional final, when Villanova’s Chris Ford rolled up on his knee. Ironically, Lanier/Ford later wound up as NBA teammates with the Pistons.

8) I was at an AAU tournament in Las Vegas a few years ago, at Bishop Gorman HS, two games going on at once. I’m sitting in the bleachers by myself, behind one couple.

Being AAU ball, when the coach’s cellphone buzzes that he got a text while the game is going on, the guy takes the phone out and reads the text. Why?

He turns around, looks at the couple in front of me and snaps, “If you text me again, he’ll never get in!!!”

The couple wanted their kid to play more; I couldn’t laugh in their faces, so I went to the concession stand. Good stuff.

7) Unsolicited opinions: best-ever play-by-play announcers by sport:
— MLB— Vin Scully
— NFL— Al Michaels
— NBA— Mike Breen
— NHL— Mike Emrick/Dan Kelly
— College hoop— Dick Enberg
— College football— Keith Jackson

6) Phillies’ pitcher Zach Wheeler makes $22M this year; he is now on the IL after tearing the fingernail on the middle finger of his pitching hand while he was putting his pants on.

Wheeler is 4-0, 2,47 in 8 starts; he is really good, but he got hurt putting his pants on.

5) Giant-Padre games for Friday/Saturday were postponed after a Giants’ player tested positive for COVID.

4) Dr Fauci was on TV today telling the truth, because someone needs to; the moderator said they were glad he was speaking, but they were also afraid he would get fired soon.

They can’t fire him; every TV network in the country (except FOX) would be throwing lucrative offers at him, to get his commentary on their station. He’d definitely get his own show, if he wanted one.

3) Sounds like November will be a very quiet month TV-wise, with only football going on until maybe college hoop starts around Thanksgiving. Good news, then, that the NBA now plans to hold their draft November 18, so that’ll provide one night of entertainment.

2) September 11, 1985— Pete Rose set the all-time hits record, getting a hit off of Eric Show of the Padres. Sadly, September 11 is now an infamous date in American history, because of the terrorist attacks on the Twin Towers and Pentagon.

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

NL East- Atlanta, Philadelphia
NL Central- Chicago, St Louis
NL West- Los Angeles, San Diego
NL Wild Cards- Miami, San Francisco

**Udog** · 09-12-2020, 09:21 AM

NHL public betting, odds movement September 12
Patrick Everson

Paul Stastny and the Vegas Golden Knights meet Jason Dickinson and the Dallas Stars in Game 4 of the Western Conference finals on Saturday. The SuperBook has Vegas a -160 favorite.

NHL betting odds are on the board as the Stanley Cup chase resumes with Game 4 of the Western Conference finals Saturday. The Dallas Stars look to stretch their lead in the best-of-seven series against the Vegas Golden Knights.

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

NHL odds movement

Dallas wasted little time in overtime of Game 3 Thursday, scoring 31 seconds into the extra frame to nab a 3-2 victory and take a 2-1 series lead against Vegas. Still, the Golden Knights opened -160 for Game 4 at The SuperBook, spent a couple of hours Friday at -157, then went back to -160, with the Stars +145.

The total opened at 5.5 and moved to 5 Friday, with the Over at -140 and the Under +120 for Saturday’s 8 p.m. ET faceoff.

NHL public betting

The Consensus, often indicative of public action, showed an expectation of Vegas once again tying up this series. Through Friday night, the Golden Knights were drawing 75 percent of picks, while the total was getting dead-even two-way play.

**Udog** · 09-12-2020, 09:24 AM

1VEGAS -2 DALLAS
DALLAS are 11-3 ATS (7.7 Units) when playing their 4th road game in 7 days in the current season.

NHL
Long Sheet

Saturday, September 12

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VEGAS (51-29-0-9, 111 pts.) vs. DALLAS (48-32-0-8, 104 pts.) - 9/12/2020, 8:00 PM
Top Trends for this game.
VEGAS is 97-81 ATS (-20.1 Units) in all games over the last 2 seasons.
DALLAS is 30-23 ATS (+56.5 Units) when playing against a team with a winning record this season.
DALLAS is 23-18 ATS (+44.8 Units) in road games when playing against a team with a winning record in the second half of the season over the last 2 seasons.

Head-to-Head Series History
VEGAS is 8-4 (+4.6 Units) against the spread versus DALLAS over the last 3 seasons
VEGAS is 8-4-0 straight up against DALLAS over the last 3 seasons
8 of 11 games in this series have gone UNDER THE TOTAL over the last 3 seasons . (Under=+4.9 Units)

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NHL

Saturday, September 12

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Trend Report
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Vegas @ Dallas
Vegas
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Vegas's last 5 games
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Vegas's last 6 games on the road
Dallas
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Dallas's last 5 games
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Dallas's last 5 games when playing Vegas

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**Udog** · 09-12-2020, 10:17 AM

NHL
Dunkel

Saturday, September 12

Vegas @ Dallas

Game 1-2
September 12, 2020 @ 8:00 pm

Dunkel Rating:
Vegas
13.258
Dallas
12.187
Dunkel Team:
Dunkel Line:
Dunkel Total:
Vegas
by 1
5
Vegas Team:
Vegas Line:
Vegas Total:
Vegas
-165
5 1/2
Dunkel Pick:
Vegas
(-165); Under

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