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

[Udog]

Sunday’s 6-pack
Odds to win the Pac-12 football title:
11-4— Oregon, USC
13-4— Washington
9-2— Arizona State
12-1— UCLA
14-1— Utah
15-1— Stanford
25-1— Colorado, Washington State
40-1— California
60-1— Oregon State
100-1— Arizona

Quote of the Day
“The easiest way for this country to get back to normal is to get vaccinated.”
Dr Anthony Fauci

Sunday’s quiz
Mariano Rivera has the most saves in baseball history; who has the 2nd most?

Saturday’s quiz
Johnny Manziel played in 14 games, starting 8, for the Cleveland Browns.

Friday’s quiz
Bill Belicheck was the last coach of the Cleveland Browns, before they moved to Baltimore and became the Ravens; he was 37-45 as coach of the Browns.

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Sunday’s Den: How MLB teams are doing in series…….

Major league teams’ records in series:
(Away-Home= Total)
Does not include this weekend’s series.

Arizona A2-6-1, H2-4-3= 4-10-4

Atlanta A4-3-2, H4-4-1= 8-7-3

Cubs A3-5, H7-3= 10-8

Cincinnati A3-4-2, H4-3-2= 7-7-4

Colorado A0-8, H6-3-1= 6-11-1

Dodgers A4-3-2, H6-3= 10-6-2

Miami A3-5-2, H3-3-2= 6-8-4

Milwaukee A7-2, H2-5-2= 9-7-2

Mets A4-4-1, H6-1-1= 10-5-2

Philadelphia A2-6-2, H4-4= 6-10-2

Pittsburgh A3-7, H2-3-3= 5-10-3

St Louis A4-6, H3-3-2= 7-9-2

San Diego A4-2-3, H6-3= 10-5-3

San Francisco A5-4-1, H6-1-1= 11-5-2

Washington A2-4-2, H3-5-1= 7-9-3

Baltimore A4-5-1, H1-6-1= 5-11-2

Boston A6-2, H4-2-3= 10-4-3

White Sox A4-3-2, H5-1-3= 9-4-5

Cleveland A4-3-1, H4-4-2= 8-7-3

Detroit A2-6-1, H3-5-1= 5-11-2

Houston A3-3-2, H6-3-1= 9-6-3

Kansas City A2-3-4, H6-3= 8-6-4

Angels A2-5-2, H4-4-2= 6-9-4

Minnesota A3-5-2, H2-7= 5-12-2

New York A4-3-1, H5-3-2= 9-6-3

A’s A7-0-1, H3-5-2= 10-6-3

Seattle A3-4-1, H5-4-1= 8-8-2

Tampa Bay A6-2-1, H4-4-1= 10-6-2

Texas A3-7, H4-4= 7-11

Toronto A5-3-2, H4-3-1= 9-6-3

 

[Udog]

 

[Udog]

21WINNIPEG -22 MONTREAL
MONTREAL is 0-7 ATS (-7.7 Units) in home games after successfully covering the spread in 3 or more consecutive games in the last 3 seasons.

23COLORADO -24 VEGAS
COLORADO is 20-14 ATS (11.4 Units) in road games against good teams - outscoring their opponents by 0.3+ goals/game in the last 3 seasons.




NHL
Dunkel

Sunday, June 6

NHL

Sunday, June 6

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Trend Report
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Winnipeg @ Montreal
Winnipeg
The total has gone OVER in 4 of Winnipeg's last 5 games when playing on the road against Montreal
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Winnipeg's last 5 games on the road
Montreal
Montreal is 5-0 ATS in its last 5 games
Montreal is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games

Colorado @ Vegas
Colorado
Colorado is 11-1 SU in its last 12 games
Colorado is 5-1 SU in its last 6 games on the road
Vegas
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Vegas's last 5 games when playing at home against Colorado
Vegas is 10-3 SU in its last 13 games at home


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[CNOTES]

SUNDAY, JUNE 6
GAME TIME(ET) PICK UNITS


WIN at MON 06:00 PM
MON -126
U 5.0
+500 +500


COL at VEG 08:30 PM
COL -103
O 5.5
+500 +500




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BEST BETS:


06/05/2021.......2-1-1.......62.50%........+.6.70
06/04/2021 ......1-3-0...... 25.00% ........-11.60
06/02/2021...... 2-2-0 ......50.00% ........+.0.50
06/01/2021 ......1-1-0 .......50.00% ........-.0.60




Totals...............6-7-0........46.15%..........- 5.00

 

[CNOTES]

DATE W-L-T % UNITS RECORD


06/06/2021 2-2-0 50.00% - 0.65
06/05/2021 2-1-1 62.50% + 6.70
06/04/2021 1-3-0 25.00% -11.60
06/03/2021 2-2-0 50.00% - 3.25
06/02/2021 2-2-0 50.00% + 0.50
06/01/2021 1-1-0 50.00% - 0.60


Totals:............10-11-1......47.61%.....-..9.90




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BEST BETS:


06/06/2021.......2-2-0.......50.00%.........- 0.65
06/05/2021.......2-1-1.......62.50%........+.6.70
06/04/2021 ......1-3-0...... 25.00% ........-11.60
06/02/2021...... 2-2-0 ......50.00% ........+.0.50
06/01/2021 ......1-1-0 .......50.00% ........-.0.60




Totals...............8-9-1........47.05%..........- 5.65

 

[Udog]

Monday’s 6-pack
Major League leaders in strikeouts (by pitcher):
117— Shane Bieber, Clev
106— Tyler Glasnow, TB
104— Gerrit Cole, NYY/Max Scherzer Wsh
100— Zack Wheeler, Phil
96— Trevor Bauer, LA
93— Jacob deGrom, NYM/Kevin Gausman, SF

Quote of the Day
“Playing on a torn meniscus is not easy. All I can do is keep managing it. Do my best, get as much treatment as I can. Try to manage it to make sure it doesn’t swell up too much. Obviously, the pain is going to be there. That’s normal. But it’s all about managing it and doing whatever it takes to win. My goal is to win a championship and I’m going to put my body on the line to make sure that happens. I’m going to give everything I got.”
76ers’ star Joel Embiid

Monday’s quiz
Who led the NBA in scoring this season?

Sunday’s quiz
Mariano Rivera has the most saves in baseball history; Trevor Hoffman has the 2nd most.

Saturday’s quiz
Johnny Manziel played in 14 games, starting 8, for the Cleveland Browns.

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Monday’s Den: Wrapping up a sports weekend

13) Patrick Cantlay won the Memorial golf tournament in Ohio Sunday, winning in a playoff against Colin Morikawa. Cantlay banked a cool $1.7M for the win, but that wasn’t the biggest golf story this weekend.

Jon Rahm led this tournament by six strokes after the third round, but he tested positive for COVID twice and had to withdraw. Guy leads by six strokes after three rounds, he ain’t going to lose; testing positive cost him $1.7M, plus a few more weeks on the bench.

12) Orioles’ OF Cedric Mullins went 5-5 with two homers Saturday, becoming the third Oriole ever to do that- Brooks Robinson, Cal Ripken Jr were the others. Thats Oriole royalty there.

Mullins is a vastly improved player this season, hitting .322 with a .923 OPS. Coming into this season, he was a career .225 hitter in 374 career AB’s.

11) Atlanta Falcons are going to trade 32-year old WR Julio Jones to Tennessee, getting draft picks in the 2nd/4th round in exchange.

New Falcons coach Arthur Smith had been an assistant coach in Tennessee the last 10 years, so its an interesting deal.

Arthur Smith trivia: His father is the founder/CEO of FedEx. He is really, really rich.

10) Milwaukee 2, Arizona 0— Diamondbacks have lost 17 straight road games.

9) Reds 8, Cardinals 7— Cincinnati led 7-0, blew the lead, then won when Jesse Winker hit his third homer of the game in the 9th inning. Reds swept this four-game series.

8) Rays 7, Rangers 1— Texas has lost 11 of its last 12 games.

7) Clippers 126, Mavericks 111 (LA wins series 4-3)
— First game in series where home side won
— Kawhi Leonard scored 28, had 10 boards, nine assists.
— Luka Doncic scored 46 in a losing cause.

6) Hawks 128, 76ers 124 (Atlanta leads 1-0)
— Joel Embiid scored 39 while playing with torn meniscus in his knee.
— Hawks were 20-47 on the arc, 24-39 inside the arc.
— Ben Simmons was 3-10 on the foul line; this will never not bother me, how a player of his skill can be so putrid on the foul line.

5) Andy Dalton is Chicago Bears’ new QB, until rookie Josh Fields is ready to go; Dalton has been in NFL for 10 years, has a 74-66-2 record, playing for 7 different offensive coordinators.

4) Former NBA great Gary Payton is going to be the basketball coach at Lincoln U, which is in Oakland and doesn’t yet have a basketball team. Their eventual goal is to be a Division I team; Payton has never coached, which is no big deal.

Must admit, I’ve never heard of Lincoln U, until now.

3) Phillies 12, Giants 6— Game was delayed in the 8th inning when the protective netting behind the plate on the first base side fell down. Took them a decent amount of time to get the netting back up. Naturally, they were booed by the fans when things were going slowly.

2) Orlando Magic fired coach Steve Clifford, who was 96-131 in three years there, making the playoffs the last two seasons, but not this one.

1) If the baseball playoffs started today (they don’t):
NL- Mets, Mil or Cubs, Giants. Wild Card: Dodgers @ Padres
AL- Rays, White Sox, A’s. Wild Card: Astros @ Red Sox

 

[Udog]

 

[Udog]

27NY ISLANDERS -28 BOSTON
NY ISLANDERS are 22-10 ATS (13.1 Units) against good offensive teams - >=29 shots on goal, convert >=17% pp in the current season.

29WINNIPEG -30 MONTREAL
WINNIPEG is 8-2 ATS (5.8 Units) in road games revenging a loss versus opponent as a favorite in the current season.




NHL
Dunkel

Monday, June 7

NHL

Monday, June 7

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Trend Report
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NY Islanders @ Boston
NY Islanders
NY Islanders is 6-1 ATS in its last 7 games
NY Islanders is 5-1 ATS in its last 6 games on the road
Boston
Boston is 11-2 SU in its last 13 games at home
Boston is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games when playing at home against NY Islanders

Winnipeg @ Montreal
Winnipeg
The total has gone OVER in 5 of Winnipeg's last 6 games when playing on the road against Montreal
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Winnipeg's last 5 games on the road
Montreal
Montreal is 5-0 ATS in its last 5 games
Montreal is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games


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[CNOTES]

MONDAY, JUNE 7
GAME TIME(ET) PICK UNITS


NYI at BOS 06:30 PM
BOS -196
U 5.0
+500 +500


WIN at MON 08:00 PM
MON -144
O 5.5
+500 +500






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DATE W-L-T % UNITS RECORD


06/06/2021 2-2-0 50.00% - 0.65
06/05/2021 2-1-1 62.50% + 6.70
06/04/2021 1-3-0 25.00% -11.60
06/03/2021 2-2-0 50.00% - 3.25
06/02/2021 2-2-0 50.00% + 0.50
06/01/2021 1-1-0 50.00% - 0.60

Totals:............10-11-1......47.61%.....-..9.90

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BEST BETS:

06/06/2021.......2-2-0.......50.00%.........- 0.65
06/05/2021.......2-1-1.......62.50%........+.6.70
06/04/2021 ......1-3-0...... 25.00% ........-11.60
06/02/2021...... 2-2-0 ......50.00% ........+.0.50
06/01/2021 ......1-1-0 .......50.00% ........-.0.60

Totals...............8-9-1........47.05%..........- 5.65

 

[CNOTES]

DATE W-L-T % UNITS RECORD


06/07/2021 1-3-0 25.00% -15.80
06/06/2021 2-2-0 50.00% - 0.65
06/05/2021 2-1-1 62.50% + 6.70
06/04/2021 1-3-0 25.00% -11.60
06/03/2021 2-2-0 50.00% - 3.25
06/02/2021 2-2-0 50.00% + 0.50
06/01/2021 1-1-0 50.00% - 0.60


Totals:............11-14-1......44.00%.....-.25.70




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BEST BETS:


06/06/2021.......1-3-0.......25.00%........- 15.80
06/06/2021.......2-2-0.......50.00%.........- 0.65
06/05/2021.......2-1-1.......62.50%........+.6.70
06/04/2021 ......1-3-0...... 25.00% ........-11.60
06/02/2021...... 2-2-0 ......50.00% ........+.0.50
06/01/2021 ......1-1-0 .......50.00% ........-.0.60




Totals...............8-9-1........47.05%..........- 21.45

 

[Udog]

Tuesday’s 6-pack
Major League leaders in strikeouts (by batters):
80— Javier Baez, Cubs
79— Joey Gallo, Tex
77— Matt Chapman, A’s
74— Eugenio Suarez Cin/Nate Lowe Tex
72— Brandon Lowe TB/Randy Arozarena TB
69—Niko Goodrum, Det

Quote of the Day
“You can shear a sheep many times, but only skin him once.”
Amarillo Slim

Tuesday’s quiz
When Kareen Abdul-Jabbar entered the NBA (as Lew Alcindor), what team did he play for?

Monday’s quiz
Steph Curry led the NBA in scoring this season, at 32.0 ppg.

Sunday’s quiz
Mariano Rivera has the most saves in baseball history; Trevor Hoffman has the 2nd most.

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

— There isn’t enough good news in the world, but in the past week, 8-year old TJ Olsen was the recipient of a heart transplant, and is said to be doing very well. Great news for that family.

TJ’s father posted a 12-second video on social media:
“Hi everybody. Thank you for thinking of me. Thank you for praying with me. We love you guys, bye.”

Obviously, for the kid to get a new heart, someone else had to pass away, and that is very sad. Does the family that donated the heart stay in contact with this kid’s family? They certainly have a great bond to build a new friendship around.

— With legalized gambling more prevalent these days, NBA and college hoop teams need to juice up their security around the court, to protect the players/refs.

In the Wizards-76ers series, some jackass ran on the floor and touched the backboard before he was tackled by security. What if he had been a gambler who was losing and went on tilt, and was ticked off at one of the players? Potentially horrific situation.

— Major league baseball teams with highest payrolls:
1) Dodgers $250,022,632
2) Bronx $202,186,977
3) NY Mets $196,470,288

— Major league teams with lowest payrolls:
30) Cleveland Indians $52,607,580
29) Pittsburgh Pirates $54,944,471
28) Baltimore Orioles $57,688,298

— So far this season, Colorado Rockies’ catchers are 8-86 (.093) on the road.

— Tampa Bay Rays have scored 122 runs from the 7th inning on, most in MLB so far.

— Alex Rodriguez thinks Alex Cora is the best manager in baseball:

“I think Alex Cora is the best manager in the game. He’s a world champion and he understands the game, 360. Obviously it’s paying dividends. I knew he would improve the team but I didn’t know it would be this paradigm shift…….”

This is Cora’s third year as a big league skipper, interrupted by last year’s suspension for his part in the Houston sign-stealing debacle- he was a coach there. Interesting opinion by ARod.

— Kansas City Royals brought up prospect Jackson Kowar to make his MLB debut Monday nite, but it didn’t go well; the Florida alum faced seven batters, got only two of them out, throwing 39 pitches and not finishing the first inning.

Big jump from AAA to the majors; his next start is in Oakland this weekend, so hopefully he won’t bounce back right away.

— Seattle Mariners brought their big prospect up to the majors last month, but Jarred Kelenic went 8-83 in 23 games, and now he is back in AAA, where the manager will have to be a master psychologist to give the kid his confidence back.

Kelenic had three hits in his second MLB game, but is 0 for his last 39.

— Over the last decade, the LA Angels haven’t drafted one pitcher who has thrown 100+ innings in a season for them; this is epic failure. They’ve got Trout, they had Pujols, still have Rendon, Ohtani and Walsh, but pitching is an important part of baseball.

— Cincinnati Reds are 9-6 in one-run games this year, which doesn’t sound like much, until you consider that from 2014-20, they were 138-224 (.381) in one-run games, so that a big improvement for them.

— Mikey Dixon is a 6-2 guard who will be playing his final season of college basketball this coming winter; the kid has gotten around.
2016-17— played in 31 games for Quinnipiac, shot 37% on the arc
2018-19— played in only 14 games for St John’s; big jump up from the NEC.
2019-20— played in 18 games for Grand Canyon, shooting 43% on the arc.
2020-21— played in 20 games for Grand Canyon, shooting only 27.5% on the arc.

2021-22— He’ll be playing at Idaho; everyone who played last year got another free year of eligibility, which he is taking advantage of.

Kid should write a book; not many people have gone to college in Connecticut, New York City, Arizona and Idaho.

— Alabama football coach Nick Saban will turn 70 this fall; he signed a contract extension this week thru 2028— does anyone think he’ll still be coaching when he is 77?

Contracts like this are meant to silence the whispers of rival recruiters, who might infer to their recruits that Saban is going to retire soon.

— Middle of the night the other night, I’m watching Hoosiers for the 100th time, so of course I got to thinking about various conversations I’ve had about this movie.

Buddy of mine and I have had a debate for years; who was the better coach, Norman Dale in Hoosiers (Gene Hackman) or Ken Reeves in The White Shadow (Ken Howard)?

To me, this is simple; Ken Reeves was the much better coach:
— In Norman Dale’s first game at Hickory High, he finished the game with four players on the court, and he had a healthy guy sitting on the bench.
— If Jimmy Chitwood hadn’t decided to play, Coach Dale would’ve been fired quickly , and it would’ve wound up being kind of a depressing movie.
— Even after Jimmy Chitwood started playing, Coach Dale always wanted to use him as a decoy to set up other players to score. Even his drunk assistant coach (Dennis Hopper) knew enough to draw up the picket fence play for Jimmy to score.

— Coach Reeves played in the NBA, which had to be a big advantage for a high school coach.
— Hoosiers trivia; the first choice to play Coach Dale was Jack Nicholson, then Robert Duvall.
— Maris Valainis, the actor who played Jimmy, was the only actor of the Hickory kids who didn’t play high school basketball; he later became a golf pro.

— Knicks’ coach Tom Thibodeau won NBA Coach of the Year, even though Suns’ coach Monty Williams got more first place votes.

— Thibodeau has a fascinating background; he worked as an assistant coach for Bill Mussselman and Jerry Tarkanian (when he coached the Spurs). Two very unique personalities.
— He spent four years as an assistant coach at Harvard, then jumped to Timberwolves when they were an expansion team- that had to be culture shock.
— He’s also worked for Doc Rivers, Jeff Van Gundy; this a guy who needs to write a book about his career. He must have a boatload of great stories to tell.

— Nets 125, Bucks 86 (Nets lead series 2-0)— Not a good advertisement for the league. There were only 16 free throws taken in the whole game. Hopefully the Bucks will play a little better when the series moves back to Milwaukee.

 

[Udog]

 

[Udog]

33TAMPA BAY -34 CAROLINA
CAROLINA is 9-0 ATS (9 Units) in home games after failing to cover 3 of their last 4 against the spread over the last 2 seasons.

35VEGAS -36 COLORADO
COLORADO is 10-0 ATS (10 Units) in home games revenging a loss versus opponent as a favorite in the current season.




NHL
Dunkel

Tuesday, June 8

NHL

Tuesday, June 8

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Trend Report
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Tampa Bay @ Carolina
Tampa Bay
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Tampa Bay's last 6 games on the road
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Tampa Bay's last 6 games when playing Carolina
Carolina
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Carolina's last 6 games at home
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Carolina's last 6 games when playing Tampa Bay

Vegas @ Colorado
Vegas
Vegas is 4-1 ATS in its last 5 games
Vegas is 5-2 ATS in its last 7 games when playing Colorado
Colorado
Colorado is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games at home
Colorado is 11-2 SU in its last 13 games


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[CNOTES]

TUESDAY, JUNE 8
GAME TIME(ET) PICK UNITS

TB at CAR 06:30 PM
TB -120
O 5.5
+500 +500


VEG at COL 09:00 PM
COL -147
O 5.5
+500 +500






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DATE W-L-T % UNITS RECORD




06/06/2021 2-2-0 50.00% - 0.65
06/05/2021 2-1-1 62.50% + 6.70
06/04/2021 1-3-0 25.00% -11.60
06/03/2021 2-2-0 50.00% - 3.25
06/02/2021 2-2-0 50.00% + 0.50
06/01/2021 1-1-0 50.00% - 0.60


Totals:............10-11-1......47.61%.....-..9.90


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BEST BETS:


06/06/2021.......2-2-0.......50.00%.........- 0.65
06/05/2021.......2-1-1.......62.50%........+.6.70
06/04/2021 ......1-3-0...... 25.00% ........-11.60
06/02/2021...... 2-2-0 ......50.00% ........+.0.50
06/01/2021 ......1-1-0 .......50.00% ........-.0.60


Totals...............8-9-1........47.05%..........- 5.65

 

[CNOTES]

DATE W-L-T % UNITS RECORD


06/08/2021.......1-3-0.......25.00%.......-13.35
06/06/2021...... 2-2-0 ......50.00% .......- 0.65
06/05/2021...... 2-1-1 ......62.50%...... + 6.70
06/04/2021 ......1-3-0 ......25.00%...... -11.60
06/03/2021...... 2-2-0 ......50.00% .......- 3.25
06/02/2021 ......2-2-0 ......50.00% ......+ 0.50
06/01/2021 ......1-1-0 ......50.00%....... - 0.60


Totals:...........11-14-1......44.00%........- 23.25


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BEST BETS:


06/08/2021.......1-1-0.......50.00%.........- 0.50
06/06/2021.......2-2-0.......50.00%.........- 0.65
06/05/2021.......2-1-1.......62.50%........+.6.70
06/04/2021 ......1-3-0...... 25.00% ........-11.60
06/02/2021...... 2-2-0 ......50.00% ........+.0.50
06/01/2021 ......1-1-0 .......50.00% ........-.0.60


Totals.............9-10-1........47.35%..........- 6.15

 

[Udog]

Wednesday’s 6-pack
Odds for the Palmetto golf tournament this week:
8-1— Dustin Johnson
9-1— Brooks Koepka
14-1— Tyrrell Hatton
16-1— Matthew Fitzpatrick
20-1— Sungjae Im
25-1— Tommy Fleetwood

Quote of the Day
“He has the best, quickest hands I’ve ever seen,. Whether you’re playing a stupid game in the pool with him or you’re playing slam ball. The guy’s hand-eye coordination is beyond elite. His hands are unbelievably underrated and allow him to be a solid defender without elite length. He has good length but not elite length without any ability to play above the rim……….they say the best baseball hitters like Ted Williams could see the seams of a baseball. I think he processes things that quickly but is able to play at his own speed.”
Nuggets’ GM Tim Connelly, talking about Nikola Jokic

Wednesday’s quiz
Besides coaching the Giants, which major college football team did Jim Fassel coach?

Tuesday’s quiz
When Kareem Abdul-Jabbar entered the NBA (as Lew Alcindor), he played for the Milwaukee Bucks; they won the NBA title in Kareem’s 2nd season, the Bucks’ third year in existence

Monday’s quiz
Steph Curry led the NBA in scoring this season, at 32.0 ppg.

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Wednesday’s Den: Mid-week musings……..

13) Tuesday night in Pittsburgh, the Pirates big 3B prospect, Ke’Bryan Hayes, hit a home run in the first inning, off the Dodgers’ Walker Buehler, but there was one small problem.

Hayes never touched first base, so he doesn’t get credit for a home run, or even a hit. Pirates don’t score a run; it just gets recorded as a long out.

Watching the replay, it is unclear if the Pirates’ first base coach noticed the gaffe.

Pittsburgh lost 5-3. Oy.

12) Why I watch the whole NBA draft; the 41st pick of the 2014 draft was a kid from Europe named Nikola Jokic, definitely a project for the Denver coaches. He’s become a hell of a player, named MVP of the league Tuesday. Not bad for the 41st pick of the draft.

11) Jazz 112, Clippers 109:
— Clippers led by 13 at the half, were outscored 32-19 in third quarter.
— Donovan Mitchell scored 45 points for the Jazz.

10) My nominee for most underrated basketball player ever; Rick Barry. The guy was awesome, scoring 24.8 ppg in his career, but he bounced around a lot between the NBA/ABA, before bouncing around between teams was a popular thing to do.

He shot 89.7% for the foul line, shooting underhanded, something more guys should try.

In 1971-72, Barry AVERAGED 45.2 mpg for the ABA’s Nets, playing in 80 games, scoring 31.5 ppg. Lets see one of today stars do that.

9) Golden Knights 3, Avalanche 2 (OT)
— Vegas scores 0:50 into OT to take a 3-2 series lead.
— #38 for the Knights is Patrick Brown, who is probably the only active NHL player with a legit shot to own part of an NFL team someday. His maternal grandfather was Wellington Mara, who owned the New Jersey Giants- his son John (Patrick’s uncle) still owns half the team.
— Patrick Brown’s dad and paternal uncle also played in the NHL.

8) Blue Jays are now booked to play home games in Buffalo thru July 21st.

7) Was reading on the Interweb how lot of scouts/players think the talent gap between AAA and the major leagues is wider than ever, which helps explain how a prospect like Jarred Kelenic goes 8 for 83 and gets sent back down to the minors. Not having minor league games last year has put a damper on some of these prospects’ careers.

6) Hopefully someone has already told Kelenic this, but Mike Trout went 7 for 43 at the start of his career, and he’s doing OK now. Takes time for some guys.

5) Kris Bryant is having a terrific year for the Cubs, hitting .307 with a .959 OPS; he is listed on the All-Star ballot as a third baseman, but he hasn’t played there since April 20.

He’s played all three outfield positions, some first base; he is useful all over the field, which is why he is going to become a lot wealthier this winter. Question is, will it be the Cubs who pay him, or some other team?

4) NBA teams who lose Game 1 of a playoff series at home are 69-48-1 ATS in Game 2, in their last 118 chances.

3) Washington’s new QB is 37-year old Ryan Fitzpatrick, who will be playing for his 9th NFL team; his W-L record as an NFL starter is 59-86-1. Against the spread, he is 69-69-8 ATS.

2) Happy 70th birthday to Dave Parker, the best baseball player (other than Pete Rose) who isn’t in the Hall of Fame. The Cobra was awesome, hitting .290 for his career, with an OPS of .810- he hit 339 homers, stole 154 bases, won World Series rings in Pittsburgh, Oakland.

Hopefully someday he’ll get inducted into Cooperstown; he deserves it.

1) RIP to football coach Jim Fassel, who passed away this week at age 71. Fassel coached the Giants from 1997-2003, losing Super Bowl XXXV to the Ravens.

Coach Fassel’s son John is special teams’ coach for Dallas; in 2016, he was the Rams’ special teams coach, and became interim head coach when Jeff Fisher got fired.

During one late season game, the Rams ran this great trick play in the red zone, but it fooled the refs, who threw a flag that shouldn’t have been thrown. As the teams jogged off the field for halftime, Jim Fassel was running after the officials, yelling at them for their mistake.

Jim Fassel was a QB in college, and threw the last pass in WFL history in 1975. I am told he was a decent guy, soft spoken for a coach. RIP, sir.

 

[Udog]

 

[Udog]

41BOSTON -42 NY ISLANDERS
NY ISLANDERS are 23-10 ATS (14.8 Units) against good offensive teams - >=29 shots on goal, convert >=17% pp in the current season.




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Dunkel

Wednesday, June 9

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Wednesday, June 9

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Trend Report
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Boston @ NY Islanders
Boston
The total has gone UNDER in 7 of Boston's last 10 games on the road
Boston is 14-6 SU in its last 20 games when playing on the road against NY Islanders
NY Islanders
NY Islanders is 5-0 ATS in its last 5 games when playing at home against Boston
NY Islanders is 7-1 ATS in its last 8 games


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[CNOTES]

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 9
GAME TIME(ET) PICK UNITS


BOS at NYI 07:30 PM
NYI +122
O 5.0
+500 +500




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DATE W-L-T % UNITS RECORD




06/08/2021.......1-3-0.......25.00%.......-13.35
06/06/2021...... 2-2-0 ......50.00% .......- 0.65
06/05/2021...... 2-1-1 ......62.50%...... + 6.70
06/04/2021 ......1-3-0 ......25.00%...... -11.60
06/03/2021...... 2-2-0 ......50.00% .......- 3.25
06/02/2021 ......2-2-0 ......50.00% ......+ 0.50
06/01/2021 ......1-1-0 ......50.00%....... - 0.60




Totals:...........11-14-1......44.00%........- 23.25




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BEST BETS:




06/08/2021.......1-1-0.......50.00%.........- 0.50
06/06/2021.......2-2-0.......50.00%.........- 0.65
06/05/2021.......2-1-1.......62.50%........+.6.70
06/04/2021 ......1-3-0...... 25.00% ........-11.60
06/02/2021...... 2-2-0 ......50.00% ........+.0.50
06/01/2021 ......1-1-0 .......50.00% ........-.0.60




Totals.............9-10-1........47.35%..........- 6.15

 

[CNOTES]

DATE W-L-T % UNITS RECORD


06/09/2021.......2-0-0.....100.00%......+11.10
06/08/2021.......1-3-0.......25.00%.......-13.35
06/06/2021...... 2-2-0 ......50.00% .......- 0.65
06/05/2021...... 2-1-1 ......62.50%...... + 6.70
06/04/2021 ......1-3-0 ......25.00%...... -11.60
06/03/2021...... 2-2-0 ......50.00% .......- 3.25
06/02/2021 ......2-2-0 ......50.00% ......+ 0.50
06/01/2021 ......1-1-0 ......50.00%....... - 0.60




Totals:...........13-14-1......48.14%........- 12.15




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BEST BETS:


06/09/2021.......2-0-0.....100.00%.......+11.10
06/08/2021.......1-1-0.......50.00%.........- 0.50
06/06/2021.......2-2-0.......50.00%.........- 0.65
06/05/2021.......2-1-1.......62.50%........+.6.70
06/04/2021 ......1-3-0...... 25.00% ........-11.60
06/02/2021...... 2-2-0 ......50.00% ........+.0.50
06/01/2021 ......1-1-0 .......50.00% ........-.0.60




Totals............11-10-1........52.38%..........+ 4.95