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

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41TORONTO -42 MONTREAL
MONTREAL is 21-33 ATS (-20.6 Units) against mistake free teams - opponents average <=4 power plays/game in the current season.

45NY ISLANDERS -46 BOSTON
NY ISLANDERS are 20-8 ATS (12.2 Units) against good offensive teams - >=29 shots on goal, convert >=17% pp in the current season.




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Saturday, May 29

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Toronto @ Montreal
Toronto
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Toronto's last 5 games when playing on the road against Montreal
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Toronto's last 7 games on the road
Montreal
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Montreal's last 5 games when playing at home against Toronto
The total has gone UNDER in 8 of Montreal's last 11 games at home

NY Islanders @ Boston
NY Islanders
NY Islanders is 7-1 ATS in its last 8 games
NY Islanders is 4-1 ATS in its last 5 games on the road
Boston
Boston is 10-1 SU in its last 11 games at home
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Boston's last 6 games


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Saturday, May 29

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Sunday’s 6-pack
NFL over/under win totals:
— Pittsburgh 8.5, -130
— San Francisco 10, -125
— Seattle 9.5, -130
— Tampa Bay 11.5, -130
— Tennessee 9, -115
— Washington 8.5, -120

Quote of the Day
“If you’re a manager, you need a good bullpen and a sense of humor; if you don’t have one, you better have the other one.”
Whitey Herzog

Sunday’s quiz
Which Hall of Famer has the most RBI’s in baseball history?

Saturday’s quiz
Houston Astros started playing in the Astrodome in 1965, their 4th year in existence; before they moved into the Astrodome, their nickname was the Colt .45’s, as in the Colt .45 gun.

Friday’s quiz
Tom Brady was drafted as a catcher by the Montreal Expos.

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Sunday’s Den: Wrapping up a sports Saturday, with some venting included

13) Major League Baseball has a great product, but they’re TERRIBLE at promoting it.

I watch baseball every night, at least 5-6 hours a night, more than that on weekends, but until Saturday, I had no idea that the 2,000,000th run in major league history was going to be scored this weekend. How is this possible? How could this not be promoted, talked about????

The commissioner should be fired for this; the 2,000,000th run would’ve been something they could’ve promoted all season, had contests as to who would score the 2,000,000th run. Instead, crickets.

What are they thinking about?!?!?!?!

12) I’m 61 years old; when I was 15, the millionth run in major league history was scored, and believe me, MLB made a big deal out of it.
— There was a cash prize given to whatever guy scored the 1,000,000th run.
— Couple guys hit home runs that last day and sprinted around the bases, thinking they might be THAT guy (this was way before the Interweb).
— A candy company was giving away stuff connected to the 1,000,000th run; it was fun.

Bob Watson of the Astros scored the 1,000,000th run that year; pretty sure he scored it on a Sunday afternoon, maybe in San Francisco?

Anyway, the point is that baseball is a great sport, but the people who run baseball act like they don’t like baseball— this is a problem. They’re the problem; the game is just fine.

11) By the way, Bob Watson was a .295 career hitter who drove in 989 runs in his career, yet the thing I remember him for is scoring that 1,000,00th run.

It was a big deal back then; it should’ve been a big deal this month.

10) Padres 11, Astros 8 (12)
— Tatis his a foul pop that should’ve been the last out in the 9th inning, but it wasn’t caught; he then tied the game with a 3-run homer.
— Wil Myers hit a 3-run homer in the 12th for the win.
— This was San Diego’s 4th straight extra inning game; the record is five, set by the 1908 Tigers.

9) Astros played the Dodgers/Padres at home this week.
— Last two games, they’re 3-32 with runners in scoring position.
— This week, in four games, Houston’s bullpen allowed 25 runs in 16.2 IP.

8) There are some really bad teams this season:
— Arizona has lost 13 games in a row.
— Baltimore has lost 12 games in a row.
— Colorado is 3-22 on the road, shut out nine times in those 22 losses.

Maybe these teams should dump the over-educated imbeciles in their front offices, and hire some old-school baseball people who know how to construct a roster. Or maybe if Colorado paid Arenado, or Arizona paid Goldschmidt, those teams wouldn’t be so bad.

7) Bucks 120, Heat 103:
— Milwaukee sweeps series 4-0, winning last three games by 34-29-17 points.

6) 76ers 132, Wizards 103:
— Sixers lead series 3-0, winning last two games by 25-29 points.

5) Jazz 121, Grizzlies 111:
— Utah grabs home court advantage back, leads series 2-1.
— Jazz made 19-43 on the arc; Conley made 7-10.

4) Trailblazers 115, Nuggets 95:
— Series is tied 2-2; NBA office has to be relieved there is one good series.
— Worst plus-minus for the Portland starters was +16; they cruised in this game.
— Portland held Denver to 47 first half points, a big improvement.

3) If you’re on Twitter, follow former NBA player Rex Chapman; he gets some great stuff sent to him, and he retweets it, most all of it good natured, fun stuff.

Saturday he posted a video of a woman juggling, but the camera was over her head; it was a very unique way of watching someone juggle. Pretty cool actually.

2) Last time the NHL went thru a playoff season without at least one series going to seven games? Way back in 1977.

1) RIP to Gavin MacLeod, 90, who passed away this weekend. He had two great television roles:
— He was Murray Slaughter, a writer at WJM TV on Mary Tyler Moore Show. His job basically was to bust anchorman Ted Baxter’s chops.
— Then he graduated to his big role, Captain Stubing on The Love Boat.

168 episodes of Mary Tyler Moore, 250 episodes of Love Boat; the man was in our living rooms an awful lot, from 1970-1987. A terrific actor. RIP, sir.

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51TAMPA BAY -52 CAROLINA
CAROLINA is 13-2 ATS (11.4 Units) in home games vs. winning teams in the current season.

53VEGAS -54 COLORADO
VEGAS are 21-8 ATS (13.7 Units) against good offensive teams - averaging 29.5+ shots on goal per game in the current season.




NHL

Sunday, May 30

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Tampa Bay @ Carolina
Tampa Bay
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Tampa Bay's last 5 games when playing Carolina
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Tampa Bay's last 7 games on the road
Carolina
Carolina is 9-1 SU in its last 10 games at home
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Carolina's last 5 games when playing Tampa Bay

Vegas @ Colorado
Vegas
Vegas is 4-1 ATS in its last 5 games when playing on the road against Colorado
Vegas is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games on the road
Colorado
Colorado is 5-0 ATS in its last 5 games
Colorado is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games


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Sunday, May 30

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Monday’s 6-pack
Week 1 NFL spreads:
— Dolphins @ Patriots (-2)
— Browns @ Chiefs (-6)
— Broncos (-1) @ Giants
— Packers @ Saints (-2.5)
— Bears @ Rams (-7)
— Ravens (-4.5) @ Raiders

Quote of the Day
“I think a lot of it has to do with their attitude toward us. They hate us, and so it’s easy for us to get more excited to play those guys. It’s kind of how they’ve behaved in the past couple years with us pitching inside, with them throwing at our guys, stuff like that.”
Rays’ reliever Ryan Thompson, talking about the Bronx Bombers

Monday’s quiz
Who was the Knicks’ coach, last time they played in the NBA Finals?

Sunday’s quiz
Hank Aaron has the most RBI’s in baseball history, 2,297.

Saturday’s quiz
Houston Astros started playing in the Astrodome in 1965, their 4th year in existence; before they moved into the Astrodome, their nickname was the Colt .45’s, as in the Colt .45 gun.

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Monday’s Den: Wrapping up a busy Sunday

13) Should have mentioned this yesterday; Twins’ 3B Josh Donaldson scored the 2,000,000th run in major league history Saturday. Pretty big deal; Bob Watson scored the 1,000,000th run back in 1975.

12) San Diego Padres played extra inning games four days in a row, then did something weird Sunday, to rest their bullpen.

Trailing 7-0 after the third inning, Padres replaced starter Blake Snell with Joe Musgrove, another starter who is probably their #2 pitcher. Musgrove threw five hitless innings, which is great, but they lost anyway and now he misses his regular turn in the rotation Monday, kind of a big deal.

San Diego couldn’t bring minor leaguers up to fortify the bullpen? Now Musgrove misses a start against the Cubs, good news for Chicago.

11) Weather has screwed up a lot of baseball schedules this spring; Indians played a twinbill against Toronto Sunday, and have another one with the White Sox today.

This is the first time since September 2000 that Cleveland has played doubleheaders two days in a row- they played four games in two days at Fenway Park back then.

10) Arizona 9, St Louis 2— Diamondbacks snap their 13-game losing skid; Ketel Marte homered, Josh Reddick had three hits against a lefty starter.

9) Chicago 3, Baltimore 1— Now the Orioles have a 13-game losing skid; they’ve scored a total of nine runs in their last five games.

8) Angels 4, A’s 2:
— A’s started the season 1-7; not good.
— Then the A’s won their next 13 games; very good.
— A’s are 17-17 since then; they lead AL West by 1.5 games.

7) Giants 5, Dodgers 4— LA lost four of its last five games, giving up 24 runs in their last three games.

6) Colorado 4, Pittsburgh 3— Rockies scored twice in ninth inning to break a 5-game losing skid; they’ve been shut out three times in their last five games. Now they go home to Denver, where they hit the ball way better than they do on the road.

5) Hawks 113, Knicks 96:
— Atlanta leads series 3-1; they led by 13 at halftime of the loss.
— Hawks were +29 with Bogdanovic on the court, minus-12 in 13:00 he sat out.

4) Suns 100, Lakers 92:
— Chris Paul scored 18 points, had 9 assists, played 32:00.
— Lakers’ star Anthony Davis missed second half with a leg injury.

3) Nets 141, Celtics 126:
— Brooklyn shot 57.8% from the floor, made 16-27 3’s- they led series 3-1.
— in first three quarters, Nets scored 112 points on 71 possessions, really good.

2) Clippers 106, Mavericks 81:
— Road team has won all four series games.
— Dallas made only five of 30 3-point shots.

1) RIP to former Utah Jazz center Mark Eaton, who passed away at age 64 after a bike accident. It was touching reading people praising Eaton as a kind soul who was nice to everyone- we need more kind souls in this world. He worked as a motivational speaker in his retirement.

Eaton played college ball at UCLA; he led the NBA in blocked shots four times in his 11 years with the Jazz, where he teamed with Karl Malone/John Stockton on some great teams.

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61NY ISLANDERS -62 BOSTON
NY ISLANDERS are 20-9 ATS (11.2 Units) against good offensive teams - >=29 shots on goal, convert >=17% pp in the current season.

63MONTREAL -64 TORONTO
MONTREAL is 22-33 ATS (-18.8 Units) against mistake free teams - opponents average <=4 power plays/game in the current season.




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Monday, May 31

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Montreal @ Toronto
Montreal
Montreal is 7-2 ATS in its last 9 games when playing on the road against Toronto
Montreal is 5-2 ATS in its last 7 games when playing Toronto
Toronto
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Toronto's last 7 games when playing Montreal
Toronto is 5-2 SU in its last 7 games at home

NY Islanders @ Boston
NY Islanders
NY Islanders is 4-1 ATS in its last 5 games on the road
NY Islanders is 7-2 ATS in its last 9 games
Boston
Boston is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games
Boston is 11-1 SU in its last 12 games at home


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Dunkel

Monday, May 31

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Tuesday’s 6-pack
Major league leaders in runs scored:
43— Bo Bichette, Tor
42— Mark Canha, A’s
40— Vladimir Guerrero Tor/Chris Taylor LA
39— Ronald Acuna Atl/JD Martinez Bos
38— Max Muncy LA/Fernando Tatis SD
37— Jesse Winker, Cin

Quote of the Day
“It’s been tough last couple weeks, but we’re trying to keep our head up and trying to keep playing hard. We’ve been in a lot of close games and we’ve just got to try to turn the page and move on to the next one and hopefully win tomorrow.”
Orioles’ OF Ryan Mountcastle

Tuesday’s quiz
In the last 20 years, which major league team had the longest losing streak?

Monday’s quiz
Jeff Van Gundy was the Knicks’ coach, last time they played in the NBA Finals.

Sunday’s quiz
Hank Aaron has the most RBI’s in baseball history, 2,297.

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Tuesday’s Den: Nobody asked me, but…….

13) Genius alert: A fan ran onto the court, jumped up and touched the backboard while the 76ers-Wizards game was going on Monday night. Security tackled the guy and got rid of him.

The whole thing seemed fairly harmless, but this kind of stuff has to stop, before someone runs on the court with more malicious intent; someone is going to get hurt. Players have a right to protect themselves, and players are mostly very large people.

If you go to a game, stay in the stands, but in any event, if you can’t handle your alcohol, just stay at home.

12) Long, long time ago, during a Baltimore Colts game, I think it was a playoff game, guy ran on the field and took the football in between plays. Colts had a linebacker named Mike Curtis who just totally crushed the guy with a tackle. Knocked him flat. Guy was so drunk he bounced right back up- after that, no one ran on the field and took the football.

11) Baltimore Orioles have now lost 14 games in a row; they’re 5 for their last 64 with runners in scoring position.

10) Montreal 3, Toronto 1— Maple Leafs blew a 3-1 series lead, losing Games 5-6 in overtime, then losing Game 7 at home; they haven’t won a playoff series of any kind since 2004.

9) Wizards 122, 76ers 114:
— Philly leads series 3-1, but Joel Embiid (knee) didn’t play the second half.
— Ben Simmons was 5-11 on the foul line. This bothers me.
— Wizards won despite Russell Westbrook going 3-19 from the floor.

8) Ben Simmons is a career 59.7% free throw shooter; I’ve coached high school kids who weren’t any good who shot better than that. Simmons is one of the five best passers I’ve ever seen; he is very, very skilled, but for whatever reason, he doesn’t shoot the ball well.

Few years ago, Showtime ran a 90-minute special on Simmons, about the period in between his year at LSU and his getting drafted by the 76ers. Was very anxious to see the special, wanted to like the kid, but fact of the matter, he wasn’t very likeable.

Shooting is something that can be learned with hours in the gym, just hard work and proper technique. Charles Barkley said it last night “You can’t be considered a superstar if you can’t shoot the ball”.

7) Utah 120, Memphis 113— Jazz take 3-1 series lead, making 17 of 34 3-pointers.

6) Looking ahead to college basketball for a minute, The Spectrum Center in Charlotte will host a pretty good quadruple-header on December 17th:.

St. Bonaventure/Virginia Tech
Richmond/NC State
Wake Forest/Charlotte
East Carolina/Liberty

5) Bad Luck Department: You know you’re going bad when the Mets are coming to town, and they get rained out Sunday, which means Jacob deGrom pitches against you Monday, when he was supposed to pitch Sunday and wasn’t supposed to pitch in this series.

Arizona has now lost 14 of its last 15 games.

4) Cubs’ 1B Anthony Rizzo hasn’t played the last six days because he has a stiff back; not sure why they’re not just putting him on the 10-day injured list. That way, they wouldn’t have to play a man short every single day.

3) Over the last 30 years, pitchers who averaged least pitches per inning in a season:
12.2— Carlos Silva, 2005 Twins
12.3— Greg Maddux, 1997 Braves
12.3— Bob Tewksbury, 1992 Cardinals

2) Since 2019, National League players with most RBI:
203— Freddie Freeman
179— Nolan Arenado
176— Eduardo Escobar

1) If the baseball playoffs started today (they don’t):
NL: Mets-Cubs-Giants. Wild Card: LA @ San Diego
AL: Rays-White Sox-A’s. Wild Card: Clev/Hst @ Boston

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71TAMPA BAY -72 CAROLINA
CAROLINA is 13-3 ATS (10.3 Units) in home games vs. winning teams in the current season.




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Tuesday, June 1

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Tampa Bay @ Carolina
Tampa Bay
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Tampa Bay's last 6 games when playing Carolina
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Tampa Bay's last 5 games on the road
Carolina
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Carolina's last 6 games when playing Tampa Bay
Carolina is 9-2 SU in its last 11 games at home


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TUESDAY, JUNE 1
GAME TIME(ET) PICK UNITS

TB at CAR 07:30 PM
CAR -112
U 5.5
+500 +500