Sunday Trends and Indexes 02/25

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NHL
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Sunday, February 25

Hot Teams
-- Devils won eight of their last eleven games.
-- Minnesota is 8-3 in its last eleven games. Oilers won last two games, after losing previous four.
-- St Louis won last four games, scoring 15 goals.
-- Vancouver won last six games, allowing 13 goals. Dallas won seven of its last ten games.
-- Penguins won thirteen of last sixteen games. Lightning won 16 of its last 21 games.

Cold Teams
-- Washington ended five-game losing skid yesterday.
-- Chicago lost last five games, scoring eight goals.
-- Nashville lost last three road games, scoring three goals. Blue Jackets lost eight of last eleven games.
-- Anaheim lost last three games, outscored 11-6. Colorado lost four of its last five games.

Series Records
-- Devils are 2-1 vs Washington this season, but lost 4-2 to the Caps at home yesterday.
-- Oilers are 2-0 vs Minnesota this season: 2-1/3-1.
-- Chicago is 4-3 against the Blues, 2-1 at home this season.
-- Home side won both Vancouver-Dallas games this season.
-- Lightning is 3-0 vs Pittsburgh this season: 4-3/3-2/3-2.
-- Nashville is 6-0 vs Columbus this yr: 4-2/2-0/4-0/4-1/3-1/5-4.
-- Colorado is 3-0 vs Anaheim this season: 3-2/3-2/2-0.

Back-to-Back Situations
-- Devils are 6-3 last nine times they played day before.
-- Predators are 10-3 if they played the night before.
-- Colorado is 3-4 if it played the night before.

Totals
-- Under is 7-2 in last nine New Jersey games.
-- Over is 7-3-1 in last eleven Minnesota games.
-- Under is 7-3-1 in last eleven Chicago games.
-- Six of last seven Vancouver games stayed under the total.
-- Over is 14-5 in last nineteen Penguin games.
-- Under is 8-3 in last eleven Nashville games.
-- Under is 11-3 in last fourteen Anaheim games, but last six of Colorado's games all went over the total.

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Six-Pack for Sunday

-- Weird seeing Brent Musberger as host for NASCAR on ESPN. Still think he should host an NFL studio show.

-- Why don't stock cars have doors?

-- Match Play golf tournament is only event I can think of that is more interesting the first day than the last.

-- They have competitive fishing on ESPN2; Travel Channel actually has competitive sand castle building. Seriously.

-- Five minutes into Cal-USC hoop game Saturday, Trojans' football recruits are paraded into arena by Pete Carroll, to a standing ovation from the crowd there.

-- Armadillo would like to welcome another reader into the world; Mr and Mrs G had a baby recently, Marissa Nicole. Rumor has it she can already read The Racing Form.

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Sunday's List of 13: Wrapping up a college hoop Saturday

13) The last ten days or so, seems like road teams are having problems holding leads in second half of games.

12) Kansas State has 20 wins in regular season for first time in 19 years; they might need two Big 12 tourney wins to get into NCAAs though- their non-conference record wasn't good.

11) While K-State is rolling, Cincinnati is 1-13 in the Big East. If they were going to fire Huggins, they should have stayed in Conference USA.

10) Watched BC-Clemson, Missouri-Nebraska games without sound; both were terribly officiated games, where home team continually got calls, or had more than few fouls not called.

9) Aaron Gray played 21 minutes on bad foot vs Georgetown, but he did return to action. Without him at 100%, Pitt is dead.

8) Home side was 13-0 in Tennessee's SEC games, until Vols won at Arkansas Saturday.

7) Stan Heath better hope Razorbacks fire football coach Nutt then they might not be able to afford to fire him, too.

6) 11am tipoff for big Siena-Marist game was bit early, but the two teams might have played best televised game of day, as Red Foxes beat Siena in OT for second time this season.

5) Friday night, Penn was 12-23 on 3's, 3-11 from foul line. Yuk

4) New Mexico lost by hoop in double OT at Utah; they were 6-11 from foul line, Utah 26-32. Lame duck coaches don't get a lot of love from the officials.

3) We talked earlier this week about Bowling Green and its bizarre loss at Buffalo; well, if Coach Dakich thinks BG got screwed at Buffalo, wonder what he thought last night, when Falcons were 13-20 from foul line, while Akron was 32-54 in a 93-87 win for the Zips.

2) UCLA finished unbeaten at home for first time since 1975.

1) If every team in country plays their best game in NCAA's , it'll be final with North Carolina playing Kansas.