Saturday Trends and Indexes 2/28 (NBA, NHL, Misc.)

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NBA
Write-Up


Saturday, February 28

Hot Teams
-- Orlando is 4-1 vs spread in game after its last five losses. 76ers won four of their last five home games.
-- Rockets won last six games, covering four of last five.
-- Utah won six in row, nine of last ten games.
-- Bobcats covered seven of their last ten games. Clippers won three of their last four home games.

Cold Teams
-- Miami is 5-8 in its last thirteen games. Knicks lost three of last four.
-- Thunder lost its last seven games, covering one of last four. Memphis lost last six games, but is 8-3 vs spread in last eleven.
-- Bulls lost three of their last four games.
-- Bucks lost four of their last five games. Washington is 1-6 vs spread in game after its last seven losses.
-- Kings are 0-4 vs spread in game following their last four wins.

Totals
-- Five of last seven Orlando games went over the total.
-- Over is 12-2 in New York's last fourteen games.
-- Six of last eight Memphis games stayed under the total; four of last five Thunder games went over.
-- Nine of last twelve Chicago games went over the total.
-- Seven of last nine Milwaukee games went over the total.
-- Five of last seven Sacramento games stayed under the total.
-- Five of last six Charlotte games stayed under the total.

Back-to Back
-- Orlando is 6-2 vs spread if it played the night before.
-- Miami is 3-9 vs spread if they played the night before.
-- Thunder is 6-4 vs spread if it played the night before.
-- Bulls are 5-4 vs spread at home if they played the night before.
-- Bucks covered one of last five if they played the night before.
-- Jazz are 6-3 vs spread if they play again the next night.
-- Bobcats covered last three times they played the night before.

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NHL
Write-Up


All Remaining Games

Saturday, February 28

Hot teams
-- Panthers won eight of their last twelve games. Devils are 15-4 in their last nineteen games.
-- Bruins won last two games, 6-1/6-0. Washington is 9-4 in its last 13 games.
-- Toronto won its last three games; its last five games all went into OT.
-- Canadiens won last three games, allowing six goals. Sharks won five of their last six games.
-- Carolina won eight of its last twelve games.
-- Red Wings won ten of their last thirteen games. Predators won three in a row, allowing four goals.
-- Blues won three of last four, 11 of last 18 games.

Cold teams
-- Stars lost last three games: 3-1/1-0/3-1. Ducks lost four of their last six games.
-- Senators lost four of their last five games.
-- Islanders lost nine of their last eleven games.
-- Sabres lost three of their last four games.
-- Thrashers lost five of their last six games.
-- Avalanche lost last three games, outscored 13-5. Rangers lost four in a row, 12 of last 14 games.
-- Coyotes lost five of their last seven games.
-- Oilers lost four of their last five games. Minnesota lost five of the last seven games.

Totals
-- Six of last eight Florida games stayed under the total.
-- Over is 8-3 in Boston's last eleven home games.
-- Five of last six Anaheim games went over the total; seven of last nine Dallas games stayed under.
-- Three of last four Ottawa games went over the total.
-- Over is 7-1-2 in last ten Montreal games.
-- Under is 10-3 in Buffalo's last thirteen games.
-- Five of last six Atlanta games went over the total.
-- Under is 7-3-1 in last eleven Colorado games.
-- Over is 10-4 in last fourteen Detroit games; five of last seven Predator games stayed under.
-- Four of last five Phoenix home games went over the total; six of Blues' last seven games stayed under.
-- Last three Minnesota games stayed under the total.

Back-to-Back
-- Florida is 3-5 if they play again the next night.
-- Dallas is 4-4 if it plays again the next night.
-- Montreal is 5-5 if it played the night before.
-- Minnesota is 3-7 if it played the night before.

Series Records
-- Panthers lost six of last seven visits to New Jersey.
-- Washington lost its last five visits to Boston.
-- Stars won three of last four games against Anaheim.
-- Toronto won six of last eight against the Senators.
-- Canadiens, Sharks split last two games, both played in San Jose.
-- Sabres won four games in a row against the Islanders.
-- Carolina won eight of last ten against the Thrashers.
-- Colorado won last two games against the Rangers, 2-1/4-3ot.
-- Predators lost four of last five games against Detroit.
-- Blues are 2-0 vs Phoenix this season, 4-3/2-1.
-- Minnesota won six of last nine games against the Oilers.

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Saturday's six-pack

We're looking at some of the best minor league prospects for all thirty major league baseball teams; today, the Florida Marlins......

-- Cameron Maybin, OF-- Was 16-32 for the Marlins last year.

-- Mike Stanton, OF-- Turned down football scholarship at USC.

-- Logan Morrison, 1B-- Reason they traded Jacobs to the Royals.

-- Sean West, P-- Talented, but injury-prone; did well in AFL.

-- Ryan Tucker, P-- Probably better suited to being a closer.

-- Matt Dominguez, 3B-- Should be in majors by 2011.

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Saturday's List of 13: Nobody asked me, but........

13) Interesting article in SI.com this week on recruiting; seven of the 12 SEC football teams signed more than 25 players earlier this month by start of school in the fall, only 25 of those kids are allowed to be on scholarship. Lot of creative ways exist to get down to 25.

12) Its not limited to the SEC, either; North Carolina only lost dozen seniors, but they signed 29 high school kids; Tar Heels have already lost nine kids from LY's team for various reasons, which means either more players will have to "disappear" before next fall.

11) Next spring, for first time, there will be an equal number of teams having spring training in Arizona as in Florida. Cactus League made a concerted effort to get teams to train in the desert.

10) Tampa Bay Bucs are $61M under salary cap, so why did they find it necessary to cut Derrick Brooks, best player in history of the franchise? Seems like he deserved lot more respect than that.

9) Over last five years before this one, Missouri State Bears racked up 19-19-22-22-17 wins, but coach Barry Hinson got canned for not getting Bears into the NCAA tournament. This year, in a new arena and without Henson, Missouri State is 11-18, 3-14 and in last place in the Missouri Valley Conference. Change isn't always good.

8) Henson's 2006 Missouri State team is still the only team with an RPI better than 30 not to make the NCAA's.

7) Rhode Island won five in row, nine of last ten games; four of the Rams' 14 conference games have gone into overtime, with URI 3-1 in those four games, including a dramtic win this week vs Dayton.

6) Vikings traded for Sage Rosenfels, giving him $9M for two years, so the Tavaris Jackson era in the Metrodome has apparently ended.

5) Do race car drivers lose their hearing later in life? Seems like it is awful loud around a racetrack, no?

4) There is a NASCAR driver named Scott Speed. Good name.

3) Former Maryland star/NBA player Adrian Branch now works as an analyst at ESPNU; when he was a student at DeMatha High, one of his teachers was current Niagara hoop coach Joe Mihalich.

2) Santa Clara lost 81-73 at home to Gonzaga late Thursday-- their fans got a technical foul for throwing a plastic bottle, then a rolled-up piece of aluminum foil on the court late in the game. Coach Keating got on the mike and briefly scolded the fans, but it was too late.

1) Does anyone know why February only has 28 days? Seriously, it is bothering me that I don't know this. Any help is appreciated.

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