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03/21/2010 - (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Phoenix Coyotes will try to match another franchise record tonight and also take a shot at first place in the Pacific Division when they visit the Dallas Stars at American Airlines Center.
The Coyotes have already set a club mark for wins in a season with 45 and enter tonight with an eight-game winning streak -- one victory shy of the franchise record set by the Winnipeg Jets from March 8-27, 1985.
More importantly, Phoenix, which hasn't made the playoffs since the spring of 2002, has a chance to take over first place in the Pacific from San Jose. The Sharks are one point ahead of the Coyotes and are playing in Edmonton tonight.
The Coyotes have won their last two games in the shootout phase and earned a 5-4 victory over visiting Chicago on Saturday. Radim Vrbata scored the lone goal of the shootout to lift Phoenix to its fourth straight home win
In the third round of the shootout, Vrbata lifted a backhand into the top of the net, and Ilya Bryzgalov sealed the win when he stopped Patrick Sharp's stuff attempt.
Lee Stempniak had two goals, while Adrian Aucoin and Wojtek Wolski each had a goal and an assist for the Coyotes. Bryzgalov made 34 saves in the win.
"I thought it was a very entertaining hockey game," Coyotes head coach Dave Tippett said. "We found a little bit of a second wind in the third period."
Stempniak is riding a nine-game point streak and he has nine goals and two assists in eight games since coming over from Toronto in a trade on March 3. He has 23 goals and 41 points overall this season.
Phoenix has a solid 19-12-3 record as the guest this year and is beginning a three-game road trip this evening.
Meanwhile, Dallas enters Sunday with fading playoff chances and is closing out a six-game homestand tonight. The Stars are eight points behind Detroit for the eighth and final playoff seed in the West.
Dallas has won two of its last three, but Saturday's win over Ottawa was just the third victory in the last 10 games for the Stars. Trevor Daley notched the game-winner early in the third period as Dallas overcame a three-goal effort by Jason Spezza to clip the Senators, 5-4.
Brad Richards tallied twice with Mike Ribeiro and Jamie Benn striking once each for the Stars. Kari Lehtonen picked up his second win with Dallas after a 25-save performance.
"We were very resilient," Stars head coach Marc Crawford said. "This time of the year that's a great quality to have. We didn't play our best game that we've played probably over the last homestand, and we had to be resilient enough and determined enough and we were good when we had to be."
The Stars, who will begin a four-game road trip Tuesday in Nashville, are 20-10-6 as the host this season.
Tonight marks the final meeting of the season between the Stars and Coyotes. Phoenix has taken three of five from Dallas this year, but the Stars have posted wins in the last two encounters. The Coyotes have seven victories in the last 10 overall matchups and have also won five of their last seven in Big D.
<< Panthers host Bolts in Sunrise
(Sportsbook Betting Lines) - A pair of Southeast Division foes with fading playoff
chances will meet tonight in Florida, as the Panthers host the Tampa Bay
Lightning at BankAtlantic Center.
The Lightning are six points behind Boston for the eighth and
<< Sabres close road trip in Carolina
(Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Buffalo Sabres will shoot for a third straight victory
this evening when they close out a five-game road trip against the Carolina
Hurricanes.
The Sabres had lost three in a row, including the first two tests of this
<< Flames try to boost playoff chances in St. Paul
(Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Calgary Flames will try to forge a tie for the last
playoff seed in the conference when they visit the Minnesota Wild for today's
Northwest Division clash at Xcel Energy Center.
The Flames come into Sunday trailing idl
<< Rangers, Bruins fight for playoff spot in Boston
(Sportsbook Betting Lines) - A key battle in the Eastern Conference playoff race is on
tap today as the Boston Bruins host the New York Rangers at TD Garden.
The Bruins are holding onto the eighth and final playoff seed with 74 points,
but they hardly
Ducks battle Avs in Anaheim >>
(Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Anaheim Ducks will try to continue heading in the right
direction when they host the Colorado Avalanche tonight at Honda Center.
The Ducks have won three straight, giving the club its longest winning streak
since a sea
Sliding Sharks aim for a win in Edmonton >>
(Sportsbook Betting Lines) - San Jose hopes a game against the NHL's cellar dwellers can
help them snap their worst losing streak of the season as the Sharks visit the
Edmonton Oilers tonight at Rexall Place.
The Sharks have lost five straight contest
Miami-Ohio receives top seed in NCAA hockey tourney >>
Indianapolis, IN (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Miami-Ohio, Denver, Wisconsin and Boston
College have been selected as the top seeds for the 2010 NCAA hockey
tournament.
Miami-Ohio will be the top seed in the Midwest Region and will open
Suarez leads Ajax into second >>
Waalwijk, Netherlands (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Luis Suarez scored two more goals to
raise his Eredivisie-leading total to 29 and Ajax hammered RKC Waalwijk 5-1 on
Sunday at Mandemakers Stadion to move into second in the Dutch top flight.
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Mayweather picked to beat De La Hoya
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA -- Golden Boy Oscar De La Hoya and his rival Floyd Mayweather Jr. arrived at the MGM Grand here Wednesday amid the pomp and pandemonium befitting two of the biggest stars in the sport who are about to duke it out for the WBC super welterweight crown this Saturday (Sunday in Manila).
As of Wednesday, MySportsbook.com closed its book with Mayweather a favorite to defeat De La Hoya at -170 (a $100 bet wins $70), while De La Hoya is a +140 underdog (a $100 bet wins $140).
Mayweather arrived at about 11:30 a.m. on a big truck with his face and a big "World's Best Pound-for-Pound" sign scribbled across the vehicle. He was accompanied by his entourage made up of rappers and his training team.
A crowd of close to 3,000 eager fans packed the MGM Grand lobby, with their cameras in tow, all trying to vie for position to get a good angle at Mayweather, who is acknowledged as the world's best fighter pound-for-pound.
Eric Gomez, Golden Boy Promotions vice-president, described the fan turnout as "amazing" and swore he had never seen anything quite like this event.
"The crowd was fantastic. Everybody was just too eager to see the two fighters," said ALA manager Michael Aldeguer, who was among those who waited at the lobby together with his ward Rey "Boom Boom" Bautista and AJ Banal.
De La Hoya made his own grand entrance at the hotel lobby at around 12:30 p.m. accompanied by GBP chief executive officer Richard Schaefer and trainer Freddie Roach.
The same group of fans who trooped to see Mayweather also lingered around to get a close look at De La Hoya, who has been secretly working out at a Las Vegas gym for days after arriving from his main training camp in Puerto Rico.
The golden boy then took part in a closed-door afternoon workout with Bautista and Banal. The two, along with Aldeguer and wife Christine, as well as an HBO crew were the only ones allowed inside the gym.
De La Hoya and Mayweather take part in today's final press conference before the official weigh-in this Friday.
Ring Magazine, the acknowledged bible of boxing, reported in its June 2007 issue that 12 out of 20 boxing experts it interviewed have favored Mayweather to defeat De la Hoya, with only 8 favoring the latter.
But Filipino ring icon Manny Pacquiao said in a recent interview with The Freeman's Emmanuel Villaruel that De La Hoya will win by unanimous decision over Mayweather.
To visit this online sportsbook got to MySportsbook.com for all your bet on boxing needs.
In any football or basketball game (the main sports that use point spreads) there are two teams playing against each other.
Those teams, though, are rarely exactly evenly matched – meaning that typically one team has a better chance than the other to win the game. If bettors were allowed to bet on who was simply going to win the game, smart ones would obviously bet on the better team (likely winning more than 50% of the time in the process).
If winning were that easy the Las Vegas and online sportsbooks would stop taking any bets! This is where the point spread comes in: the basic function of the point spread is to balance the likelihood of each team “winning” by adjusting the final score by the point spread. After this adjustment is made you get the Against The Spread result (ATS result for short).
Let’s look at Super Bowl XXXIX, New England Patriots vs. Philadelphia Eagles. Most people believed the defending champ Patriots to be the better team – so if betting were simply based upon which team would win the game, an uneven majority of people would have wagered on New England. But, by using the point spread, the bookmakers adjusted the terms of the bet, evening the proposition so about half the people believed the Pats to be the smart bet, while the other half considered Philly to be the smart bet.
New England Patriots -7 vs. Philadelphia Eagles
The better team, called the Favorite, is expected to win the game and must “give” or “lay” points to the weaker team. The favorite is listed with a minus sign and the number of points they are favored by (e.g., New England -7)
In the case of our example, New England must not only win the game, but they must win by more than 7 points for Pats bettors to have a winning ATS result. An Eagles bettor wins his bet either if:
There was also the possibility that the final score could land exactly on the spread number (for example, the Pats winning 28-21 when -7), which is called a “push” or “no action” and a refund is then issued to bettors of both teams.
The same game with the same point spread can be considered from the weaker team’s perspective: The Underdog (Philly in the case of our example) is not expected to win the game and online football betting thus receives or “gets” points given by the stronger team. When a game is stated from the underdog’s perspective the team is listed with a plus sign and the number of points they are underdogs by:
Philadelphia Eagles +7 vs. New England Patriots
Keep in mind that Philadelphia +7 and New England -7 is the same point spread on the same game, simply stated differently. The first is from the underdog’s perspective; the later is from the favorite’s.
Not a must, but for some a mathematical approach is insightful. You can determine the ATS winner by either:
Let’s look at the actual result of Super Bowl XXXIX: New England 24 Philadelphia 21
The favorite, New England, won the game but not by more than the point spread they were favored by (7), so the ATS result was a LOSS for Pats bettors.
Looking at it from the underdog’s perspective, Philly did not win the game, but they lost by less than the point spread (7), so the ATS result was a WIN for Eagle bettors.
Mathematically considered, 24 for the favorite Pats minus 7 equals 17, which is less than the 20 the Eagles scored, so the underdog Eagles win the ATS result (or you could figure 20 plus 7 equals 27 for the Eagles, which is more than 24 for the Pats).
Emily’s boyfriend understood the point spread and wagered $100 on the Eagles at +7. The Eagles may not have gotten a Super Bowl ring, but since they won the ATS result Emily’s boyfriend cashed his bet – giving him money to take her out to a nice dinner.
And now hopefully you understand how to read point spreads, putting you one step closer to joining the fun of sports betting.
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