Cnotes 2020/2021 NHL Season Long Trends, News, Notes, Picks !

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19NY RANGERS -20 NEW JERSEY
NEW JERSEY is 0-10 ATS (-10.8 Units) in home games against good offensive teams - >=29 shots on goal, convert >=17% pp in the current season.

21BUFFALO -22 BOSTON
BUFFALO is 2-20 ATS (-20 Units) in road games after allowing 3 goals or more 4 straight games in the last 3 seasons.

23PHILADELPHIA -24 WASHINGTON
WASHINGTON is 10-1 ATS (8.9 Units) after a win by 2 goals or more in the current season.

25CALGARY -26 TORONTO
TORONTO is 12-26 ATS (-16.6 Units) in home games after 5 straight games with 30 or more shots on goal since 1996.

27TAMPA BAY -28 NASHVILLE
TAMPA BAY is 44-20 ATS (14.7 Units) in road games against good offensive teams - averaging 29.5+ shots on goal per game over the last 2 seasons.

29FLORIDA -30 DALLAS
DALLAS are 7-21 ATS (-17.4 Units) against good offensive teams - >=29 shots on goal, convert >=17% pp in the current season.

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NHL
Dunkel

Tuesday, April 13

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NHL

Tuesday, April 13

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NY Rangers @ New Jersey
NY Rangers
The total has gone OVER in 5 of NY Rangers's last 5 games when playing New Jersey
The total has gone OVER in 7 of NY Rangers's last 8 games when playing on the road against New Jersey
New Jersey
The total has gone OVER in 5 of New Jersey's last 5 games
The total has gone OVER in 5 of New Jersey's last 5 games when playing NY Rangers

Buffalo @ Boston
Buffalo
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Buffalo's last 5 games when playing Boston
Buffalo is 5-0 ATS in its last 5 games when playing on the road against Boston
Boston
Boston is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games when playing Buffalo
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Boston's last 5 games when playing Buffalo

Philadelphia @ Washington
Philadelphia
The total has gone OVER in 5 of Philadelphia's last 6 games when playing on the road against Washington
The total has gone OVER in 9 of Philadelphia's last 12 games on the road
Washington
The total has gone OVER in 5 of Washington's last 6 games when playing at home against Philadelphia
The total has gone OVER in 4 of Washington's last 5 games

Calgary @ Toronto
Calgary
The total has gone UNDER in 7 of Calgary's last 8 games when playing on the road against Toronto
Calgary is 6-1 ATS in its last 7 games when playing on the road against Toronto
Toronto
The total has gone UNDER in 7 of Toronto's last 8 games when playing at home against Calgary
Toronto is 6-1 SU in its last 7 games

Tampa Bay @ Nashville
Tampa Bay
Tampa Bay is 7-1 SU in its last 8 games when playing Nashville
Tampa Bay is 5-1 ATS in its last 6 games when playing Nashville
Nashville
Nashville is 10-2 SU in its last 12 games
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Nashville's last 5 games when playing at home against Tampa Bay

Florida @ Dallas
Florida
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Florida's last 6 games when playing Dallas
The total has gone UNDER in 6 of Florida's last 8 games
Dallas
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Dallas's last 6 games when playing Florida
Dallas is 5-2 ATS in its last 7 games


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Wednesday’s 6-pack
NFL teams that pay out the most $$$ in workout bonuses:
$5.1M— Green Bay
$3.7M— Jacksonville
$3.2M— Buffalo
$3.1M— Kansas City
$1.9M— Carolina, Cincinnati
$1.8M— Las Vegas
Americans who have died from COVID-19: 562,428
PLEASE wear a mask (over your nose/mouth) when you go out.

Quote of the Day
“The worst part of this approach is that it doubles the stress of the compressed schedule. Rather than playing for a playoff spot and being able to rest players as the standings become clearer, teams have to approach every game as a playoff game to either get into or stay in the top 6 since the consequences, as Luka said, are enormous. So players are playing more games and more minutes in fewer days.”
Mark Cuban, on the NBA’s play-in playoff format

Wednesday’s quiz
Since the 1983-84 season, who holds the NBA record for most rebounds in one game?

Tuesday’s quiz
In the history of the NBA, Ray Allen has made the most 3-point shots, 2,973.

Monday’s quiz
When Rams’ QB Matthew Stafford was a high school QB in Texas, his team’s center was Clayton Kershaw. Now both of them are playing ball in Los Angeles.

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Wednesday’s Den: Mid-week musings……..

13) Dak Prescott got a 4-year, $160M contract from the Cowboys, which apparently includes a $1M incentive for winning a Super Bowl. $126M of that money is guaranteed.

Prescott has a 42-27 career W-L record in regular season, 1-2 in playoffs; he played in only five games last season, after he broke/dislocated his ankle.

12) Here’s something you don’t see every day; Monday night, Milwaukee Brewers brought in a relief pitcher late in their game, but turns out the guy’s name wasn’t written on the lineup card, so he couldn’t pitch, and they had to quickly get someone else warmed up to enter the game.

You wouldn’t think stuff like that would happen in the major leagues.

11) Players who have had 3+-homer games for three different teams:
— Johnny Mize— StL, NYG, NYY
— Alex Rodriguez— Sea, Tex, NYY
— Dave Kingman— Cubs, NYM, A’s
— Mark Teizeira— Tex, Atl, NYY
— JD Martinez— Det, Ariz, Bos

10) Most pitches thrown in a game this season:
118– Johnny Cueto
113— Shane Bieber (last night)
112— Joe Musgrove (perfect game)
111— Lance Lynn
110– Trevor Bauer
105— Johnny Cueto

9) Longtime major league ump Joe West has been awarded $500,000 plus interest in damages in a defamation suit against former MLB catcher Paul LoDuca that was filed in October 2019.

There was a podcast where LoDuca accused reliever Billy Wagner of bribing West to get a bigger strike zone. He accused that Wagner let West use his 1957 vintage Chevrolet to make the strike zone change when he was up at bat.

Apparently, LoDuca lied in the podcast about how many times West has ejected him in his career; the judge who made the ruling raised the possibility that West will not be elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame because of LoDuca’s statements.

West, by the way, was one of the umpires in the replay center Sunday night, when they missed a call on the Phillies scoring the winning run on a close play at home plate in the last inning.

8) Rangers 8, Rays 3— Texas breaks out for eight runs, after being shut out in three of their previous four games.

7) Red Sox 4, Twins 2— Boston wins its 7th game in a row on a snowy afternoon in Minnesota. Rafael Devers has hit five homers in his last four games.

6) Denver Nuggets’ star Jamal Murray tore his ACL, is out for the year, tough break for a Denver team that is 34-20, the #4-seed in the Western Conference.

5) Mets 4-4, Phillies 3-0: Big day for the Metropolitans, who swept a twinbill, holding the Phils to three runs total.

4) “I don’t know who that is. I know he’s going to be the owner. But I don’t know anything about baseball.”

Thats Timberwolves’ star rookie Anthony Edwards, talking about baseball Hall of Famer Alex Rodriguez, who will soon be a co-owner of Minnesota’s NBA team.

3) Former NFL running back Eddie George is the new football coach at Tennessee State; George played nine seasons in the NFL and ran for 10,441 yards, but he has never coached before.

George played for the Tennessee Titans, where his coach was Jeff Fisher, whose son Brandon is expected to be on the Tennessee State coaching staff.

2) Now that Chris Beard is the basketball coach at Texas, they’re going to poach players from teams all over the country. Longhorns poached kids from Utah/Kentucky on Tuesday, and also announced that Andrew Jones will be staying with the Longhorns next season.

1) Having trouble getting used to doubleheaders being 7-inning games; a game is 2-2 in fifth inning and you forget that this is a late-inning situation. You do the same thing for 60 years, it is difficult to shift gears and think in a different way.

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31WINNIPEG -32 OTTAWA
OTTAWA is 0-18 ATS (-19.8 Units) off a win by 2 goals or more over a division rival in the last 3 seasons.

33CALGARY -34 MONTREAL
MONTREAL is 13-19 ATS (-14.8 Units) against mistake free teams - opponents average <=4 power plays/game in the current season.

35VEGAS -36 LOS ANGELES
VEGAS are 16-3 ATS (11.3 Units) against poor defensive teams - allowing 2.85+ goals/game in the current season.

37ARIZONA -38 MINNESOTA
MINNESOTA is 14-3 ATS (11.3 Units) in home games against mistake free teams - opponents average <=4 power plays/game in the current season.

39COLORADO -40 ST LOUIS
ST LOUIS are 1-6 ATS (-9.8 Units) in home games against excellent power play teams - scoring on > 19% of their chances in the current season.

43ANAHEIM -44 SAN JOSE
SAN JOSE is 9-3 ATS (5.7 Units) after failing to cover 3 of their last 4 against the spread in the current season.

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NHL

Wednesday, April 14

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Arizona @ Minnesota
Arizona
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Arizona's last 6 games when playing on the road against Minnesota
The total has gone OVER in 4 of Arizona's last 5 games
Minnesota
Minnesota is 12-1 SU in its last 13 games at home
Minnesota is 7-1 SU in its last 8 games when playing Arizona

Calgary @ Montreal
Calgary
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Calgary's last 5 games on the road
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Calgary's last 5 games when playing Montreal
Montreal
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Montreal's last 5 games when playing Calgary
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Montreal's last 5 games when playing at home against Calgary

Winnipeg @ Ottawa
Winnipeg
Winnipeg is 18-4 ATS in its last 22 games on the road
Winnipeg is 7-2 SU in its last 9 games when playing Ottawa
Ottawa
The total has gone UNDER in 8 of Ottawa's last 9 games at home
Ottawa is 10-3 ATS in its last 13 games

Colorado @ St. Louis
Colorado
Colorado is 8-1 SU in its last 9 games
Colorado is 6-1 SU in its last 7 games when playing St. Louis
St. Louis
St. Louis is 9-1 SU in its last 10 games when playing at home against Colorado
St. Louis is 5-1 ATS in its last 6 games

Vegas @ Los Angeles
Vegas
The total has gone OVER in 5 of Vegas's last 6 games when playing on the road against Los Angeles
Vegas is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games
Los Angeles
The total has gone OVER in 5 of Los Angeles's last 5 games
The total has gone OVER in 5 of Los Angeles's last 6 games when playing at home against Vegas

Anaheim @ San Jose
Anaheim
Anaheim is 17-2 ATS in its last 19 games on the road
Anaheim is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games on the road
San Jose
The total has gone OVER in 5 of San Jose's last 7 games at home
San Jose is 14-6 SU in its last 20 games when playing Anaheim


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Thursday’s 6-pack
Odds for this week’s RBC Heritage golf tournament:
19-2— Dustin Johnson
13-1— Webb Simpson
17-1— Collin Morikawa, Patrick Cantlay
19-1— Daniel Berger
23-1— Tyrell Hatton
28-1— Cam Smith, Paul Casey, Will Zalatoris
Americans who have died from COVID-19: 562,428
PLEASE wear a mask (over your nose/mouth) when you go out.

Quote of the Day
“Don’t throw away the old bucket until you know if the new bucket holds water.”
Anonymous

Thursday’s quiz
What baseball player holds the record for most total bases in one game?

Wednesday’s quiz
Since the 1983-84 season, Charles Oakley holds the NBA record for most rebounds in one game, with 35.

Tuesday’s quiz
In the history of the NBA, Ray Allen has made the most 3-point shots, 2,973.

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Thursday’s Den: Doing some thinking out loud……..

13) White Sox 8, Indians 0:
— Carlos Rodon throws a no-hitter, allowing a hit batter in 9th inning.
— Last two years, Rodon started only 11 games; lot of injury issues.

— Already 2nd no-hitter this year, both with no walks, but one hit batter. Before this year, that had happened only four times in the previous 100 years.

12) Nationals 6, Cardinals 0— Yadier Molina is first player ever to catch 2,000+ games with the same team.

11) Coming into Wednesday’s games, major league batting average was only .235; last year it was .245, which was the lowest since 1972.

I’m thinking shifts will be outlawed next season; they want more offense in the game.

10) Near the end of last season, Angels’ SS Andrelton Simmons opted out of the season; he didn’t want to go into quarantine for the playoffs.

This year, now with Minnesota, Simmons opted not to get the vaccine.

This week, Simmons tested positive for COVID, so now he is in quarantine. Go figure.

9) Was weird seeing Blake Snell pitch for the Padres Tuesday night, throw 38 pitches and not finish the first inning. Teams are going to be very vigilant about monitoring pitch counts and inning counts this year, with last year having been a shortened season.

8) Minnesota rookie OF Alex Kirilloff is the first player ever whose first career hit came in a playoff game. He made his 2021 debut for the Twins yesterday.

7) Milwaukee’s Corbin Burnes is the first pitcher in the last 100 years to strike out 30+ batters in his first three starts of a season, without walking anyone.

6) Cleveland’s Shane Bieber has allowed five runs in 21.1 IP, striking out 35 guys, but he doesn’t have any wins; Indians didn’t score a run in the first five innings of any of those three games.

5) Toronto 5, Bronx 4:
— New York is 2-1 when Cole pitches, 3-6 with any other starter.
— DH Stanton got another day off; why? Is being a DH that strenuous?
— Bo Bichette hit a walk-off homer in the 9th inning.

4) Red Sox swept a twinbill in Minnesota; they’re first team ever to start a season 0-3, then win 9+ games in a row. Twins scored total of three runs in the two games.

3) Mets 5, Phillies 1:
— David Peterson pitched a strong game for the Mets.
— Peterson’s father was a horse trainer; he trained Seattle Slew the year after that great horse won the Triple Crown— owners had fired Billy Turner, the previous trainer.

2) College basketball stuff:
— Arizona named Gonzaga assistant Tommy Lloyd as their new coach.
— NC-Greensboro coach Wes Miller is now the Cincinnati coach.
— Joe Golding bolts from Abilene Christian to Texas-El Paso.

1) Gonzaga is a unique situation; they’re pretty much what UNLV was 30 years ago; I’m not sure a Pac-12 team hiring Mark Few’s right-hand man will translate well.
— Can he recruit top flight players to the desert?
— Can he recruit top flight players who will stay more than one year?
— Arizona has won A LOT over the last 35 years; can he satisfy a spoiled fanbase?

College basketball is changing drastically; every kid who makes two layups in a row either wants to jump to to the NBA or to a better conference. Very difficult to develop continuity.

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45WINNIPEG -46 TORONTO
TORONTO is 2-8 ATS (-10.6 Units) in home games when playing against a marginal winning team (Win Pct. 51% to 60%) over the last 2 seasons.

47NASHVILLE -48 CAROLINA
NASHVILLE is 8-1 ATS (6.9 Units) in road games off a win by 2 goals or more over a division rival over the last 2 seasons.

49FLORIDA -50 TAMPA BAY
FLORIDA is 0-7 ATS (-7.2 Units) when playing against a good team (Win Pct. 60% to 75%) in the current season.

51PHILADELPHIA -52 PITTSBURGH
PHILADELPHIA is 3-12 ATS (-9.8 Units) against explosive offensive teams - scoring 3+ goals/game in the current season.

53NEW JERSEY -54 NY RANGERS
NEW JERSEY is 8-1 ATS (6.9 Units) in road games off 2 consecutive losses against division rivals over the last 2 seasons.

55BUFFALO -56 WASHINGTON
WASHINGTON is 14-1 ATS (13.1 Units) against poor defensive teams - opponents average 29.5+ shots on goal in the current season.

57NY ISLANDERS -58 BOSTON
NY ISLANDERS are 16-5 ATS (10.8 Units) against good offensive teams - averaging 29.5+ shots on goal per game in the current season.

59CHICAGO -60 DETROIT
CHICAGO is 7-2 ATS (4.8 Units) in road games when playing with 2 days rest over the last 2 seasons.

61COLUMBUS -62 DALLAS
COLUMBUS are 2-11 ATS (-11.1 Units) in road games against horrible power play killing teams-opp score on >19% of chances in the current season.

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NHL
Dunkel

Thursday, April 15

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NHL

Thursday, April 15

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Nashville @ Carolina
Nashville
Nashville is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games on the road
Nashville is 11-2 SU in its last 13 games
Carolina
Carolina is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games when playing Nashville
Carolina is 5-1 SU in its last 6 games when playing at home against Nashville

New Jersey @ NY Rangers
New Jersey
The total has gone OVER in 6 of New Jersey's last 7 games when playing NY Rangers
The total has gone OVER in 6 of New Jersey's last 7 games when playing on the road against NY Rangers
NY Rangers
The total has gone OVER in 5 of NY Rangers's last 5 games at home
The total has gone OVER in 6 of NY Rangers's last 7 games when playing at home against New Jersey

Philadelphia @ Pittsburgh
Philadelphia
The total has gone OVER in 5 of Philadelphia's last 5 games when playing on the road against Pittsburgh
The total has gone OVER in 5 of Philadelphia's last 5 games when playing Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh
The total has gone OVER in 5 of Pittsburgh's last 5 games
The total has gone OVER in 5 of Pittsburgh's last 5 games when playing at home against Philadelphia

Florida @ Tampa Bay
Florida
The total has gone OVER in 5 of Florida's last 5 games when playing on the road against Tampa Bay
The total has gone OVER in 5 of Florida's last 5 games when playing Tampa Bay
Tampa Bay
The total has gone OVER in 5 of Tampa Bay's last 5 games when playing at home against Florida
The total has gone OVER in 5 of Tampa Bay's last 5 games when playing Florida

Buffalo @ Washington
Buffalo
Buffalo is 9-1 ATS in its last 10 games
The total has gone OVER in 4 of Buffalo's last 5 games
Washington
Washington is 10-1 SU in its last 11 games when playing at home against Buffalo
Washington is 6-1 SU in its last 7 games when playing Buffalo

Winnipeg @ Toronto
Winnipeg
Winnipeg is 7-1 ATS in its last 8 games when playing on the road against Toronto
Winnipeg is 4-1 ATS in its last 5 games when playing Toronto
Toronto
The total has gone OVER in 4 of Toronto's last 5 games when playing at home against Winnipeg
Toronto is 6-2 SU in its last 8 games

NY Islanders @ Boston
NY Islanders
NY Islanders is 5-0 ATS in its last 5 games when playing Boston
NY Islanders is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games when playing Boston
Boston
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Boston's last 6 games when playing at home against NY Islanders
The total has gone UNDER in 8 of Boston's last 11 games when playing NY Islanders

Chicago @ Detroit
Chicago
The total has gone OVER in 5 of Chicago's last 6 games
Chicago is 5-1 SU in its last 6 games when playing Detroit
Detroit
Detroit is 6-1 ATS in its last 7 games
Detroit is 9-2 ATS in its last 11 games at home

Columbus @ Dallas
Columbus
The total has gone UNDER in 7 of Columbus's last 8 games on the road
The total has gone OVER in 5 of Columbus's last 6 games
Dallas
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Dallas's last 5 games when playing at home against Columbus
Dallas is 6-2 ATS in its last 8 games


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Friday’s 6-pack
Major league leaders, on-base %age (minimum 20 AB’s):
.583— Brandon Nimmo, NYM
.547— Yuli Gurriel, Hst
.526— Vladimir Guerrero, Tor
.522— Yermin Mercedes, CWS
.519— Max Muncy, LAD
.492— Ronald Acuna, Atl
Americans who have died from COVID-19: 565,067
PLEASE wear a mask (over your nose/mouth) when you go out.

Quote of the Day
“If you are building for the future, you’re going to lose your job.”
Oakland basketball coach Greg Kampe, talking about the new college basketball transfer rules

Friday’s quiz
In the movie Rocky, before Rocky Balboa fought Apollo Creed the first time, how many professional fights had he lost? (He had 44 wins)

Thursday’s quiz
Sean Green holds the record for most total bases in one game; on May 23, 2002, he hit four homers, a single and a double (19 TB)

Wednesday’s quiz
Since the 1983-84 season, Charles Oakley holds the NBA record for most rebounds in one game, with 35.

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Friday’s Den: Random stuff with the weekend here……..

13) Later this month, the NCAA is expected to approve a new rule, where players can transfer once, without sitting out a year— they’re not eligible if they’ve already transferred.

This is expected to cause chaos for a while, in both football/basketball; it’ll be just like baseball, rich teams poaching from the not-so-rich. It’ll be interesting to see how it all plays out.

12) Baylor just won the national championship in basketball; 54% of their points this season came from players who transferred into Baylor.

11) My fantasy baseball team is desperate for a catcher who can hit; Jorge Alfaro looks terrible, so I added Tucker Barnhart, but he platoons. One of three things needs to happen:

— I added Yermin Mercedes, the White Sox’ hitting prodigy who is supposedly a catcher but hasn’t caught in a big league game yet, so he isn’t eligible to use behind the plate until the White Sox put him there.
— Texas Rangers have a kid in the minors (Sam Huff) who can hit— he was 11-31 in a brief cameo in the majors last year, but right now he is getting more experience in the minors.
— Mariners’ utility guy Todd France is supposedly their emergency catcher; would be nice of Seattle had an emergency and let France catch for an inning or two.

10) 30 or so years ago, I spent 11 months of my life working as a court assistant in a county courthouse. Interesting experience; the best part were the actual trials. I would swear the witnesses in, keep an inventory of the evidence, all that stuff.

One thing I learned, and I heard this from more than one lawyer; in a criminal trial, if the defendant is innocent, he/she will testify. If they’re guilty, not so much.

9) Actually, the best part of that job was the first Friday of each month, the matrimonial conferences; only people present were the husband/wife, their lawyers, the judge, the court stenographer and me.

Some funny stuff happened, but you’re sitting there out in the open- you’d better not laugh.

8) One rule I’d be in favor of; when the playoffs start, the highest-seeded team can choose which team they play in the first round of the playoffs. They used to do this in the G-League, we do it in our fantasy baseball league. Makes things a little more interesting, plus it would make for good television, when the teams announced their choices.

7) A’s 8, Detroit 4:
— Detroit pitchers walked 12 guys; they threw 51 pitches, just in the 6th inning.
— Thru six innings, Tiger pitchers threw 161 pitches, Oakland pitchers 82.

6) Few years ago in July, I’m sitting in a Las Vegas casino playing video poker, watching the Diamondbacks— their game goes 12 innings. At the same time, and this is a Friday night, the third round of the British Open is starting on the TV next to the baseball game.

So at the same time, I’m watching a Friday night baseball game and Saturday morning golf. As if I wasn’t confused enough, then I hit a jackpot at video poker. Pretty good night.

5) Utah State hired Ryan Odom to be its new basketball coach, making the long move from UMBC; it is unusual in that Odom brings all three of his assistants with him to Logan. Usually, one of the three assistants would inherit the job Odom left behind, but UMBC hired the guy that was Penn State’s interim coach last year.

Odom went 29-17 in conference games in the three years since he upset Virginia in the NCAA Tournament, the only #1-#16 upset ever.

Utah State won 74 games the last three years; he is inheriting a good program in a league that hasn’t been getting better. Will be interesting to see how Richard Pitino/Kevin Kruger do in the Mountain West, having been hired at New Mexico/UNLV.

4) I read this on the Interweb, so it has to be true; French people sleep an average of 8.83 hours/day, more than any other country.

3) Washington Nationals are batting their pitcher 8th; this isn’t a good idea. Tony LaRussa started this near the end of his tenure in St Louis, so it gained credibility, and at one point, several teams tried it, but don’t think anyone ever did it in a playoff game, which would’ve been the ultimate endorsement.

Hopefully next year everyone will use the DH and this argument will be put to rest.

2) I was amusing myself the other night by looking thru hotels.com, pricing hotels in Las Vegas during football season for this fall; I could really go for a chicken salad sandwich at the Carnegie Deli at The Mirage, especially with a Dr Brown’s soda.

Makes me hungry just thinking about it.

1) I’m getting my first vaccine shot April 25; it was supposed to be in a tent in a parking at the college I went to, but they’re moving the vaccine site to a **** a half-mile away. I’m thinking this is a good thing, don’t have to worry about the weather interrupting things.

But the vaccine site is right across the hall from the Apple store; this could get expensive.

[Udog]

63CALGARY -64 MONTREAL
CALGARY is 1-10 ATS (-10 Units) in road games off a road blowout win by 3 goals or more in the last 3 seasons.

65NY ISLANDERS -66 BOSTON
NY ISLANDERS are 16-5 ATS (10.8 Units) against good offensive teams - averaging 29.5+ shots on goal per game in the current season.

67SAN JOSE -68 MINNESOTA
MINNESOTA is 15-3 ATS (12.3 Units) in home games against mistake free teams - opponents average <=4 power plays/game in the current season.

69LOS ANGELES -70 COLORADO
LOS ANGELES are 11-4 ATS (6.6 Units) off a blowout loss by 3 goals or more to a division rival in the last 3 seasons.

71VEGAS -72 ANAHEIM
ANAHEIM is 6-21 ATS (-17.1 Units) in home games after 2 or more consecutive unders in the last 3 seasons.




NHL
Dunkel

Friday, April 16






NHL

Friday, April 16

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Calgary @ Montreal
Calgary
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Calgary's last 5 games on the road
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Calgary's last 6 games when playing Montreal
Montreal
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Montreal's last 6 games when playing Calgary
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Montreal's last 6 games when playing at home against Calgary

NY Islanders @ Boston
NY Islanders
NY Islanders is 5-1 ATS in its last 6 games when playing Boston
NY Islanders is 5-1 SU in its last 6 games when playing Boston
Boston
The total has gone UNDER in 8 of Boston's last 11 games when playing at home against NY Islanders
The total has gone UNDER in 8 of Boston's last 12 games when playing NY Islanders

San Jose @ Minnesota
San Jose
San Jose is 6-1 ATS in its last 7 games when playing on the road against Minnesota
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of San Jose's last 6 games when playing on the road against Minnesota
Minnesota
Minnesota is 13-1 SU in its last 14 games at home
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Minnesota's last 6 games when playing at home against San Jose

Los Angeles @ Colorado
Los Angeles
The total has gone OVER in 5 of Los Angeles's last 5 games
The total has gone UNDER in 6 of Los Angeles's last 7 games when playing Colorado
Colorado
Colorado is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games at home
Colorado is 9-1 SU in its last 10 games

Vegas @ Anaheim
Vegas
Vegas is 6-1 SU in its last 7 games when playing on the road against Anaheim
Vegas is 6-1 SU in its last 7 games when playing Anaheim
Anaheim
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Anaheim's last 6 games
Anaheim is 5-1 ATS in its last 6 games when playing Vegas


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Saturday’s 6-pack
Six no-hitters, where the only baserunner came on a HBP:
July 4, 1908— Hooks Wiltse
June 18, 1960— Lew Burdette
June 10, 1997— Kevin Brown
June 20, 2015— Max Scherzer
April 9, 2021— Joe Musgrove
April 14, 2021— Carlos Rodon
Americans who have died from COVID-19: 565,318
PLEASE wear a mask (over your nose/mouth) when you go out.

Quote of the Day
“Judge and Stanton, the only problem with those two guys, they’re really good players, but they’re always hurt. Players today won’t play if they’ve got a strained calf.”
Pete Rose

Saturday’s quiz
Who was the Dodgers’ manager, before Dave Roberts?

Friday’s quiz
In the movie Rocky, before Rocky Balboa fought Apollo Creed the first time, his record as a pro boxer was 44-20.

Thursday’s quiz
Sean Green holds the record for most total bases in one game; on May 23, 2002, he hit four homers, a single and a double (19 TB)

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Saturday’s Den: Clearing out a cluttered mind……..

13) At the beginning of Bull Durham, Susan Sarandon is talking:

“…….Sometimes it seems like a bad trade. But bad trades are part of baseball – now who can forget Frank Robinson for Milt Pappas, for God’s sake?”

Someone mentioned Milt Pappas on TV the other day, so I looked up his career— this guy is getting a bad rap.

— 17 years in the major leagues, won 209 games.
— pitched in three All-Star games
— was 45-25 the three years before the trade, 110-74 for his career at that time.

Now there’s no question it was an uneven trade, but not because Pappas was bad— guy had a damn good career. He threw a no-hitter for the Cubs in 1972.

12) The other side of the coin is this; how on God’s green earth did the Reds trade Frank Robinson, for anyone? The year before they traded him, Robinson scored 109 runs, knocked in 113 more, and he was only 29 at the time. Why would they trade him?

Orioles won the World Series in 1966, the year after the trade, then played in the Series three years in a row, fro, 1969-71; their pitching rotation was stacked, with Palmer-McNally-Cuellar, Pat Dobson. Adding a great hitter made them a great team.

So call it a bad trade, but don’t blame Milt Pappas.

11) Giancarlo Stanton makes $29M a year, which works out to $179,012 per game; when he donated one of his game checks to the Players’ Alliance, that was a hefty donation.

10) I’m genuinely curious about this; how many major league managers actually decide who plays every day, and how many front offices decide that for them? Are off days for “rest” scripted in advance by the front office?

I mean, Stanton makes $29M a year to DH; there is no way he should he ever get a day off, unless they want to let Aaron Judge DH. Stanton could actually play the outfield, too. The way teams coddle these guys borders on the ridiculous.

9) Let’s take a look at another pitcher’s career, the White Sox’ Wilbur Wood:
— Wood was a lefty knuckleball pitcher.
— He was in the majors for nine years before he became a starter.
— From 1971-75, Wood started an incredible 224 games, that 44.8 starts/year.
— He once started both ends of a doubleheader.
— In 1972-73, he threw an incredible 736 innings.
— In 1973, he went 24-20 in 48 starts.
— He threw 114 complete games in his career.

8) Twins’ OF Max Kepler was born in Germany; his parents were both big-time ballet dancers. His mom is from Texas, his dad from Poland.

7) Dodgers’ OF Cody Bellinger has a hairline fracture of his fibula, is out for an undetermined amount of time.

6) Mets got rained out Thursday, snowed out Friday, will now play a doubleheader in Denver on Saturday; Mets have played only eight games, Braves have played 14, Phillies 13.

5) One of the great quotes I ever heard, from a coach to his team, after the second game of the season, in the coach’s first year in that job:

“Well, it didn’t take long for the rats to start jumping off the ship”

4) Was thinking the other day about the first time I heard that ESPN was going on the air; I was in college, someone told me an all-sports TV station was starting. I was intrigued.

In the early days, ESPN showed lot of Australian Rules Football, a ton of college basketball; they should go back to showing Aussie football. Their poker telecasts later on were also really good, way better than they babbling talking heads they have on now during weekday afternoons.

They should also have a nightly baseball show; why do they not have one?

3) Dwayne Wade is joining the ownership group of the Utah Jazz, which is the youngest ownership group in the NBA. Utah’s new owner is technology entrepreneur Ryan Smith- he bought the team late last year.

Wade played 16 years in the NBA, retiring two years ago.

2) Alabama’s football team has a pretty big recruiting edge; they’ve got three former NFL head coaches on their coaching staff. Not just Nick Saban, but Doug Marrone, Bill O’Brien, too.

1) RIP to the actor Felix Silla 84, who passed away this week; you’ve probably never heard of him, but he played Cousin Itt in the 60’s comedy The Addams Family, as well as other shows.

In 1980, I had my wisdom teeth removed, and they made me stay overnight in the hospital; the guy in the next bed was watching Buck Rogers in the 25th Century with his mother. When they ran the credits to the show and I saw that Felix Silla was the robot in the show, I got all excited— “Hey, that was Cousin Itt!!!”

The guy’s mom gave me a very strange look. Go figure.

[Udog]

1NEW JERSEY -2 NY RANGERS
NEW JERSEY is 8-2 ATS (5.8 Units) in road games off 2 consecutive losses against division rivals over the last 2 seasons.

3WASHINGTON -4 PHILADELPHIA
PHILADELPHIA is 2-9 ATS (-7.9 Units) in home games after playing a game where 3 or fewer total goals were scored in the last 3 seasons.

5CHICAGO -6 NASHVILLE
NASHVILLE is 19-4 ATS (15.2 Units) vs. losing teams in the current season.

5PITTSBURGH -6 BUFFALO
PITTSBURGH is 19-22 ATS (-18.6 Units) against horrible power play killing teams-opp score on >19% of chances in the 2nd half of the year in the last 3 seasons.

7ST LOUIS -8 ARIZONA
ARIZONA is 7-1 ATS (5.9 Units) in home games after allowing 4 goals or more in the current season.

9FLORIDA -10 TAMPA BAY
FLORIDA is 0-8 ATS (-8.2 Units) when playing against a good team (Win Pct. 60% to 75%) in the current season.

11CHICAGO -12 DETROIT
DETROIT is 13-42 ATS (-22.3 Units) against terrible defensive teams - allowing 3+ goals/game over the last 2 seasons.

13NASHVILLE -14 CAROLINA
CAROLINA is 20-7 ATS (11.5 Units) against excellent power play teams- scoring on >17.5% of their chances in the current season.

17COLUMBUS -18 DALLAS
COLUMBUS are 2-12 ATS (-12.1 Units) in road games against horrible power play killing teams-opp score on >19% of chances in the current season.

19SAN JOSE -20 MINNESOTA
MINNESOTA is 15-3 ATS (12.3 Units) in home games against mistake free teams - opponents average <=4 power plays/game in the current season.

[Udog]

NHL

Saturday, April 17

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Trend Report
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New Jersey @ NY Rangers
New Jersey
The total has gone OVER in 4 of New Jersey's last 5 games when playing on the road against NY Rangers
New Jersey is 13-4 ATS in its last 17 games on the road
NY Rangers
NY Rangers is 6-1 ATS in its last 7 games at home
The total has gone OVER in 6 of NY Rangers's last 7 games at home

Washington @ Philadelphia
Washington
The total has gone OVER in 5 of Washington's last 5 games
Washington is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games on the road
Philadelphia
The total has gone OVER in 4 of Philadelphia's last 5 games when playing Washington
The total has gone OVER in 7 of Philadelphia's last 10 games at home

Pittsburgh @ Buffalo
Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh is 5-0 ATS in its last 5 games when playing Buffalo
Pittsburgh is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games when playing Buffalo
Buffalo
Buffalo is 10-1 ATS in its last 11 games
The total has gone OVER in 5 of Buffalo's last 6 games

Ottawa @ Montreal
Ottawa
The total has gone OVER in 5 of Ottawa's last 5 games on the road
The total has gone UNDER in 9 of Ottawa's last 11 games when playing Montreal
Montreal
The total has gone UNDER in 9 of Montreal's last 11 games when playing Ottawa
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Montreal's last 5 games when playing at home against Ottawa

St. Louis @ Arizona
St. Louis
St. Louis is 6-1 ATS in its last 7 games
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of St. Louis's last 5 games when playing on the road against Arizona
Arizona
Arizona is 10-1 ATS in its last 11 games when playing St. Louis
The total has gone OVER in 6 of Arizona's last 7 games at home

Nashville @ Carolina
Nashville
Nashville is 5-1 SU in its last 6 games on the road
Nashville is 11-3 SU in its last 14 games
Carolina
Carolina is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games when playing Nashville
Carolina is 6-1 SU in its last 7 games when playing at home against Nashville

Florida @ Tampa Bay
Florida
The total has gone OVER in 5 of Florida's last 6 games when playing on the road against Tampa Bay
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Florida's last 6 games
Tampa Bay
Tampa Bay is 10-1 SU in its last 11 games when playing at home against Florida
The total has gone OVER in 5 of Tampa Bay's last 6 games when playing at home against Florida

Chicago @ Detroit
Chicago
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Chicago's last 5 games when playing on the road against Detroit
The total has gone OVER in 4 of Chicago's last 5 games
Detroit
Detroit is 7-1 ATS in its last 8 games
Detroit is 10-2 ATS in its last 12 games at home

Edmonton @ Winnipeg
Edmonton
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Edmonton's last 5 games on the road
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Edmonton's last 5 games
Winnipeg
Winnipeg is 7-1 ATS in its last 8 games when playing Edmonton
The total has gone OVER in 6 of Winnipeg's last 7 games when playing at home against Edmonton

Columbus @ Dallas
Columbus
The total has gone OVER in 4 of Columbus's last 5 games
The total has gone UNDER in 7 of Columbus's last 9 games on the road
Dallas
Dallas is 4-1 ATS in its last 5 games
Dallas is 5-2 ATS in its last 7 games at home

San Jose @ Minnesota
San Jose
San Jose is 7-1 ATS in its last 8 games when playing on the road against Minnesota
The total has gone UNDER in 6 of San Jose's last 7 games when playing on the road against Minnesota
Minnesota
Minnesota is 14-1 SU in its last 15 games at home
The total has gone UNDER in 6 of Minnesota's last 7 games when playing at home against San Jose


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