Wednesday's Trends and Indexes - 10/1 (MLB, CFL, Misc.)

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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18

GAME TIME(ET) PICK UNITS

PIT at NYI 07:00 PM

U 5.5 *****

NYR at CLB 07:00 PM

O 5.5 *****

DET at WAS 07:00 PM

U 5.0 *****

MON at CAR 07:30 PM

MON +110 *****

U 5.5 *****

CHI at CAL 09:00 PM

U 5.0 *****

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NHL Capsules
December 6, 2016

PHILADELPHIA (AP) Jakub Voracek scored with 8.6 seconds left in overtime after Wayne Simmonds had two goals in regulation, leading the Philadelphia Flyers to their sixth straight victory, 3-2 over the Florida Panthers on Tuesday night.

Steve Mason made 42 saves to help the Flyers to their longest winning streak in five years. Mason, who earned the NHL's First Star of the Week on Monday, won his fifth straight start.

Aleksander Barkov and Jussi Jokinen scored for Florida, which completed a six-game trip with a 1-5-0 record.

Mason turned aside Florida's best chance in overtime when he denied Aaron Ekblad's slap shot from close range.

ISLANDERS 4, RANGERS 2

NEW YORK (AP) - Andrew Ladd scored in the second period and Jaroslav Halak stopped 36 shots to lead the Islanders over their crosstown-rival.

John Tavares, Jason Chimera and Scott Mayfield also scored at the Barclays Center to help the last-place Islanders improve to 4-0-1 in their last five games.

Jimmy Vesey and Marc Staal scored for the Metropolitan Division-leading Rangers and Henrik Lundqvist finished with 28 saves. The Rangers have alternated wins and losses in regulation in their last eight games.

The Rangers went 0 for 6 on the power play, including a 6-on-3 advantage with Lundqvist pulled over the final 32 seconds.

BLUES 3, CANADIENS 2, OT

ST. LOUIS (AP) - Jaden Schwartz got his second goal of the game in overtime, leading St. Louis over Montreal.

Paul Stastny also scored for St. Louis, which has won four of five. The Blues rallied from a 2-0 deficit and have a point in their last 13 home games.

Tomas Plekanec and Paul Byron scored for Montreal, which completed a five-game trip 2-3.

Goalie Jake Allen made 28 saves to improve to 13-3-3.

Schwartz lifted a backhander past goalie Al Montoya with 1:22 left in overtime.

DEVILS 3, CANUCKS 2

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - Taylor Hall scored a goal, set up a go-ahead tally by Kyle Palmieri and delivered a crushing check that knocked Vancouver defenseman Philip Larsen out of the game to lift New Jersey.

Defenseman Ben Lovejoy also scored and Cory Schneider made 22 saves as New Jersey remained the NHL's only team not to lose at home in regulation.

This is the first time the Devils have gone 10 home games without losing in regulation - they began 8-0-1 in 1987-88. This was also their first win in regulation in the last 11 games.

Daniel Sedin scored a second-period power-play goal with the Canucks on a two-man advantage, and he set up his brother, Henrik, early in the third period when Vancouver closed the deficit to a goal.

PREDATORS 4, AVALANCHE 3

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Roman Josi scored a power-play goal 1:04 into the third period to give Nashville a win over Colorado.

Viktor Arvidsson, James Neal and P.K. Subban also scored for Nashville, which ended a two-game losing streak.

Matt Duchene scored twice and Nathan MacKinnon also scored for Colorado, which has lost six straight.

At the tail end of 2-minute 5-on-3 advantage, Josi took a pass from Ryan Johansen at the top of the left faceoff circle and dropped to one knee as he fired a tiebreaking one-timer by goaltender Semyon Varlamov.

BLACKHAWKS 4, COYOTES 0

CHICAGO (AP) - Marian Hossa had two goals, Scott Darling made 22 saves and Chicago beat Arizona to snap a two-game slide.

Artem Anisimov and Dennis Rasmussen also scored to help Chicago maintain a three-point lead over St. Louis in the Central Division.

Darling made a handful of tough stops but wasn't heavily tested in his first shutout this season and third of his career. He started his third straight game in place of No. 1 goalie Corey Crawford, who had an appendectomy in Philadelphia on Saturday.

The 37-year-old Hossa scored his team-leading 13th and 14th goals in his 27th game - surpassing his total of 13 last season in 64 contests.

SABRES 4, OILERS 3, OT

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) - Rasmus Ristolainen scored from the left circle 57 seconds into overtime and Buffalo beat Edmonton.

The Sabres scored twice in a span of 86 seconds, with Evander Kane forcing overtime by scoring with 29 seconds left in regulation. Kane had two goals and Brian Gionta also scored as Buffalo rallied after squandering a 2-0 first-period lead.

Anders Nilsson stopped 34 shots, closing his legs to foil Edmonton star Connor McDavid on a short-handed breakaway in the third period.

Leon Draisaitl, Milan Lucic and Jordan Eberle scored for the Oilers, who improved to 3-0-2 on the road despite the loss. McDavid had two assists.

RED WINGS 4, JETS 3, SO

WINNIPEG, Manitoba (AP) - Henrik Zetterberg backhanded in the deciding goal in the shootout and Detroit came back from a two-goal deficit to beat Winnipeg.

Thomas Vanek also scored against goalie Connor Hellebuyck in the shootout, and Patrik Laine had Winnipeg's tally against Petr Mrazek.

Tomas Tatar, Anthony Mantha and Vanek scored in regulation for Detroit, which has at least one point in seven of its last eight games (5-1-2).

The Jets got goals from Andrew Copp, Dustin Byfuglien and Laine, whose 17th of the season tied him for the NHL lead with Pittsburgh's Sidney Crosby.

FLAMES 2, STARS 1

DALLAS (AP) - Sean Monahan scored on a power play midway through the third period, lifting Calgary over Dallas.

Johnny Gaudreau passed to Monahan from behind the net into the slot, and he slid a wrist shot past goalie Kari Lehtonen.

Monahan assisted on Gaudreau's goal that tied it at 1 in the second period.

Flames goalie Chad Johnson made 29 saves. Lehtonen had 18.

Dallas' Curtis McKenzie opened the scoring with an unassisted goal in the first period.

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Wednesday’s List of 13: Random bowl game observations

13) Bowl rematch: North Texas went to West Point in October and beat the Cadets 35-18 as a 17-point underdog, Mean Green was +6 in turnovers that day; they were 1-11 last year, are in a bowl for only second time in last 12 years. Army is in its first bowl since 2010. These teams meet in the Dallas Bowl, played in the iconic Cotton Bowl.

12) South Florida is fun to watch; QB Flowers is a dynamic playmaker, especially on scramble plays, but against an SEC defense (lot faster than the typical AAC defense), he could be negated some. USF lost 55-35 to Florida State in September, a team with SEC-like speed. South Carolina won its last four bowl games, but that was with coach Spurrier.

11) Miami Ohio was 0-6, finished 0-6; Baylor was 6-0, finished 6-6. Too bad the powers-that-be couldn’t have hooked them up in a bowl.

Miami will play 5-7 Mississippi State (the 5-7 teams won their bowls LY); Baylor will be playing Boise State in its bowl, with a lame duck coaching staff- Bears hired Temple coach Rhule on Tuesday.

10) South Alabama is playing Air Force in its bowl game; Jaguars beat San Diego State and Mississippi State, but also lost to UL-Monroe and Georgia Southern, so you never know what you’re getting with USA. South Alabama lost 33-28 in its only other bowl game, couple years ago against Bowling Green.

9) New Mexico and Hawaii are playing bowl games on their home fields; is that fun? Would kids rather go somewhere else for a bowl? Lobos’ last four bowls have all been in Albuquerque- they’re 1-4 in their last five bowls.

8) Speaking of bowl travel, was is the worst place to go for a bowl? Anywhere with a beach can’t be considered, so that leaves Boise, Detroit, New York City. In Detroit/NYC, kids probably go to an NBA or NHL game as entertainment, but what do you do in Idaho for fun in December?

7) Idaho is dropping back to I-AA in 2018, so this bowl game has special meaning for them and they won’t mind playing in Boise. Vandals’ QB is Matt Linehan, son of the Dallas Cowboys’ OC. Idaho won five of its last six games (6-0 vs spread).

6) Old Dominion is playing in its first bowl game; Eastern Michigan’s last bowl was in 1987; the Bahamas Bowl is going to be fun. ODU scored 45.8 pts/game in its last four games. EMU covered eight of its last ten games. Both teams will be very happy to be there.

5) BYU-Wyoming used to be conference rivals; other than Utah, no one despises the Cougars more than Wyoming fans. BYU is 8-4, with four losses by a total of 8 points. This should be one of the better bowl games.

4) Indiana fired Kevin Wilson, but not because of their win-loss record; apparently he isn’t a nice guy and some of the players complained, so he is gone and the OC was promoted. Awkward.

Utah coach Kyle Whittingham is 8-1 in bowl games, the best bowl record since Boston College strung together eight straight bowl wins when Tom O’Brien was coach there.

3) TCU has only eight scholarship seniors, so the practices they get before the bowl and then the game itself serve as an early start for next season. Horned Frogs won four of last five bowls, scoring 89 points in last two- they beat Oregon in OT in Alamo Bowl LY.

2) Underdogs covered last four Holiday Bowls, winning three of the four SU; there was a time when Holiday Bowl was famous for high scoring games, so fitting that Mike Leach’s Washington State team will be there. This is third bowl in four years for Coogs, after they went ten years in between bowl appearances. Leach has done a great job reviving the Wazzu program.

1— Florida State-Michigan and USC-Penn State are terrific bowl matchups between traditional powers.

After watching the Showtime reality show on the Seminoles this fall, am curious how they do in this bowl, given a chance to get healthier and then there was the war of words between the two coaches about the satellite camps Harbaugh runs in Florida.

If you’re Penn State coach Franklin, missing out on the playoff is disappointing, but isn’t playing in the Rose Bowl really good and in the long run, couldn’t that help PSU’s recruiting more than a loss to Alabama in the national semifinal?

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NHL BETTING TRENDS
Money Line

10:35 pm 12/7/2016
(57) CAROLINA @(58) ANAHEIM
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7:35 pm 12/7/2016
(51) MINNESOTA @(52) TORONTO
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7:35 pm 12/7/2016
(51) MINNESOTA @(52) TORONTO
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8:05 pm 12/6/2016
(11) COLORADO @(12) NASHVILLE
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The record is 11 Wins and 19 Losses for the last two seasons (-18.15 units)
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8:05 pm 12/6/2016
(13) DETROIT @(14) WINNIPEG
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8:05 pm 12/6/2016
(11) COLORADO @(12) NASHVILLE
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8:05 pm 12/6/2016
(9) MONTREAL @(10) ST LOUIS
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8:05 pm 12/6/2016
(9) MONTREAL @(10) ST LOUIS
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7:05 pm 12/6/2016
(1) EDMONTON @(2) BUFFALO
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7:05 pm 12/6/2016
(1) EDMONTON @(2) BUFFALO
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NHL BETTING TRENDS
Puck Line

10:35 pm 12/7/2016
(57) CAROLINA @(58) ANAHEIM
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The record is 0 Overs and 9 Unders this season (-9.3 units)
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7:35 pm 12/7/2016
(51) MINNESOTA @(52) TORONTO
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7:35 pm 12/7/2016
(51) MINNESOTA @(52) TORONTO
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NHL BETTING TRENDS
Under

10:35 pm 12/7/2016
(55) OTTAWA @(56) SAN JOSE
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WLT PCT UNITS

M/L Picks 33-25-3 56.90% +2265

O/U Picks 3-2-0 60.00% +400



THURSDAY, MARCH 2

GAME TIME(ET) PICK UNITS

PIT at DET 01:05 PM

DET -147

WAS at HOU 01:05 PM

HOU -125

TB at BOS 01:05 PM

TB +135

ATL at STL 01:05 PM

STL -141

PHI at TOR 01:07 PM

TOR -156

MIA at NYM 01:10 PM

NYM -132

CLE at LAD 03:05 PM

CLE +115

TEX at OAK 03:05 PM

TEX +110

COL at KC 03:05 PM

KC -135

MIL at SEA 03:10 PM

SEA -141