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Sportswagers NHL (12-9, +11.84 YTD) Ottawa @ LOS ANGELES
Ottawa +133 over LOS ANGELES
BEST LINE: Pinnacle +133
OT included. The Senators have yet to play at home and they have yet to lose in regulation, picking up three out of a possible four points. Ottawa blew a two-goal, third period lead to the Maple Leafs on Saturday night, losing it in OT, but not finishing is a rare occurrence for this group. The Sens are a solid, balanced team with depth, goaltending, scoring and strong defense. They’ll roll out four high caliber lines that just keep on coming with a relentless system that forces the opposition into making bad decisions. This is a good hockey team that almost always has a chance to win. With four games left on the Senators six-game trip to begin the year, they figure to keep pushing hard.
Marc Andre Fleury was considered at one time to be one of the best goaltenders in the world. He has a Stanley Cup, two silver medals and one gold medal at the Olympics and he is also a former all-star. The he lost it. There was a former pitcher for the Cardinals named Rick Ankiel, who in his first full year at the age of 20 in 2000 was second in the NL (behind Randy Johnson) with 194 strikeouts and was whiffing an average of 9.9 batters per nine innings. He received The Sporting News Rookie Pitcher of the Year Award. In the playoffs of that year, Ankiel started Game 1 of the NLDS, walked four batters and threw 5 wild pitches in three innings before being removed. In his next start, in Game 2 of the NLCS, Ankiel was removed in the first inning after throwing 20 pitches, two of which sailed over the head of the catcher and three others that were wild pitches. Ankiel was sent to the minors where he walked 25 batters in 17 innings and never pitched in the majors again. He lost it too. We mention this because we see Jonathan Quick of the Kings heading down a similar road. Quick was inconsistent all of last year and in his last two games, he’s allowed seven goals on 55 shots, not to mention that well-documented gaffe against the Rangers the other night and at least three other soft goals. L.A. is now 1-2 with losses to the Jets and Rangers. Its only victory came in OT against Minnesota. L.A. is not a team you want to lay juice with right now and Quick is not a goaltender you want be backing until he shows us something different.
Ottawa +133 over LOS ANGELES
BEST LINE: Pinnacle +133
OT included. The Senators have yet to play at home and they have yet to lose in regulation, picking up three out of a possible four points. Ottawa blew a two-goal, third period lead to the Maple Leafs on Saturday night, losing it in OT, but not finishing is a rare occurrence for this group. The Sens are a solid, balanced team with depth, goaltending, scoring and strong defense. They’ll roll out four high caliber lines that just keep on coming with a relentless system that forces the opposition into making bad decisions. This is a good hockey team that almost always has a chance to win. With four games left on the Senators six-game trip to begin the year, they figure to keep pushing hard.
Marc Andre Fleury was considered at one time to be one of the best goaltenders in the world. He has a Stanley Cup, two silver medals and one gold medal at the Olympics and he is also a former all-star. The he lost it. There was a former pitcher for the Cardinals named Rick Ankiel, who in his first full year at the age of 20 in 2000 was second in the NL (behind Randy Johnson) with 194 strikeouts and was whiffing an average of 9.9 batters per nine innings. He received The Sporting News Rookie Pitcher of the Year Award. In the playoffs of that year, Ankiel started Game 1 of the NLDS, walked four batters and threw 5 wild pitches in three innings before being removed. In his next start, in Game 2 of the NLCS, Ankiel was removed in the first inning after throwing 20 pitches, two of which sailed over the head of the catcher and three others that were wild pitches. Ankiel was sent to the minors where he walked 25 batters in 17 innings and never pitched in the majors again. He lost it too. We mention this because we see Jonathan Quick of the Kings heading down a similar road. Quick was inconsistent all of last year and in his last two games, he’s allowed seven goals on 55 shots, not to mention that well-documented gaffe against the Rangers the other night and at least three other soft goals. L.A. is now 1-2 with losses to the Jets and Rangers. Its only victory came in OT against Minnesota. L.A. is not a team you want to lay juice with right now and Quick is not a goaltender you want be backing until he shows us something different.
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