USCHO Edge hosts Jim Connelly (@jimmyconnelly), Dan Rubin (@DanRubin12) and Ed Trefzger (@EdTrefzger) look at money lines and over/under for six college games on February 7 and 10, 2025:
- Michigan +135 @ Michigan State -175; over/under 6.5
- Denver -160 @ Arizona State +124; o/u 6.5
- Colorado College +140 @ North Dakota -180; o/u 5.5
- Maine -120 @ Providence -110; o/u 5.5
- Boston College -220 vs. Boston University +170; o/u 6.5 (Beanpot final 2/10/25)
- St. Cloud State +200 @ Western Michigan -270; o/u 5.5 (our "pizza money" game)
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
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Welcome to US Echo Edge four Friday, February seventh, twenty
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I'm Ed Trevsker alongside Jim Connolly and Dan Rubin. Why
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don't we dive right in? There's a great matchup to
start things out. Michigan is at Michigan State. Michigan is
the underdog at plus one thirty five. Michigan State is
minus one seventy five. The over under on this one
is six point five.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Give me Michigan State here all day. One thing.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
I think this is actually a pretty good price. Michigan
State is at home on Friday. Saturday Nights game is
at Little Caesars. That'll be a neutral site, but Friday
at Michigan State. They haven't lost at home the Spartans
since their first game of the year at home against
Boston College, so it's been some time.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
They're playing really well at home.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
They haven't been taking their full complement of points of
six points every weekend, But how many teams do this
time of year.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Yeah, give me the Spartans over under.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
I'd if I had to bet it, I'd go to
you over, but I could see that game going either way,
so I'd stay away.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
Yeah, I'd stay away from the over under on this
the If Michigan were closer to plus one point fifty,
I'd say take Michigan all day and that with those
odds or with something like that, I don't think the
plus one thirty five. While it gives you better value
than maybe a minus two hundred, there's not a whole
lot of money to be made once you start getting
the minus two twenties, once you get to my over
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minus two hundred. But Michigan at plus one thirty five
just doesn't really do it for me, especially in Lance
where like you said, Michigan State has been so good.
I prefer to take Michigan on neutral ice. I prefer
to take Michigan at home. I don't think Michigan's going
to be the team that maybe knocks off Michigan State
at home. I do think that maybe they are one
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of the teams that will give them a good run,
but I don't know if it's going to be an
over under situation. I do like where the using the
puck line to dictate what you would predict in this
game or what you would see the puck lines one
and a half and one and a half is a
protaly hit and clearing that bar is a is plus
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one thirty five. So I'm not saying that the puck line,
but that kind of illustrates I think this is also
going to be a one goal game, and maybe I
don't know if this is going to hit the over
or not.
Speaker 5 (02:47):
I might even stay away from it altogether, but I don't.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Clarify the puck line plus one thirty five on Michigan State.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
To win two or more.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Yes, I yeah, I A Michigan has not been as
consistent as Michigan State has this year.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
It's that simple.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
I put Michigan State in Minnesota as two of the
best teams of the country, and I put the rest
of the Big ten below them.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
It's that simple. Are there tiers?
Speaker 5 (03:15):
Maybe?
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Is there maybe a third tier of teams that don't
belong with Michigan Maybe, But I see Michigan State Minnesota
the top, and then the other five teams just the
Hodgepodge below.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
There are a couple of big games in the NCCHC
first lists. Take a look at Denver at Arizona State.
The Pioneers may be looking for revenge for a pair
of losses at home November twenty second and twenty third.
Denver is the favorite at minus one sixty. Arizona State
is plus one twenty four, and the over under on
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this one is six point five.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
I'm hammering Arizona State here as the whole dog.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
I know Denver wants revenge, but Arizona State playing it
at Mallad has been difficult for any opponents this year.
Give me Arizona State in this one. They've already beat
Denver twice. Maybe they snuck up on them that kind
of I don't want to say put Denver into a tailspin,
but Denver has been less consistent since that weekend. So yeah,
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Arizona State until they give me a reason not to
take them same.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
And I think this is where when you look at
the value in this too, Arizona State at home as
an underdog again, the Denver team, it's flawed, Like I've
been saying it for a couple of weeks, where Denver
going into Minnesota Duluth, I didn't like what I was
seeing out of them. I didn't like what I saw
going into Omaha. There's something about Denver that feels still off.
Even though they scored eleven goals against Omaha, but the
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first night they lost a shootout.
Speaker 5 (04:44):
So it's inconsistent at best.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
And you're dealing with an Arizona State team that, as
of late, is starting to come on and make the run.
That makes you worry about facing a team like Arizona
State in the postseason, and for that reason, the gloss
to CC aside. I just can't look at a team
like Arizona State right now, which is still trying to
fight for its bubble status. This is a big win
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for them. There's a big game for them over under. Again,
I stay away from it. Like six, I love the number,
I love them, I don't like betting the number. I
love the number though, I love where it's at and
I don't think it's going to clear it. But at
the same time, I don't feel confident enough to say, oh, yeah,
there's gonna be a four to two type of game,
four to three type. You get a four to three
type of game. All of a sudden you're at the over,
so I might stay away from that. But if you
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feel strongly about Denver winning this game as a minus
one sixty, you better know something that we don't.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
By the way, Arizona State should scare everybody in the postseason,
especially if the seed would. They're one pace for right now.
He could easily beat one seed in the NCAA tournament.
I actually don't mind the over under here. I'd take
the over. I think both these teams can get up
and down the ice. They both can put up goals.
Low scoring games to these teams of late have been high.
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They could it stay under yeah, three, two or two potentially,
but six and a half, I'd got over.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Let me throw in one thing here. This is about
the same time last year that Denver caught fire. And
if I can mix some metaphors, could they see lightning
strike again?
Speaker 5 (06:21):
I think it's hard.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
I think that we I know we mentioned it a
couple of weeks ago about Denver getting fired and getting
hot about this time of year. Look, if you win
a national championship, a lot of things had to go right,
and you had to commit to a style. And I
know Denver flipped on the fly to playing much more
defensive hockey last year. But I also don't and that
was something we were saying a couple of weeks ago.
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But it's hard to do it every year in the
same bank, on the same thing over and over. And
we've seen that across the board with teams that are
in similar situations where.
Speaker 5 (06:54):
They've been in previous years.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
I draw in Northeastern, where Northeastern had been a bubble
team and had managed get their way by winning the
right games to the tournament. Sometimes you can't bank on
that to be like, all right, we're going to be
if we're around nineteen or twenty in the pair wise,
we're going to get to this number and that's going
to get us in the tournament, and that's what we're
gonna need. Denver right now, to me is a very
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good team, but fifth in the NCCHC makes their postseason
bid difficult, and I don't know that they're going to
get into the top three, and then you have to
worry about where you're going to wind up, which right
now I think actually puts them in.
Speaker 5 (07:31):
A regional with Boston College at Boston University. In an
ironic twist of the of last year's pros and four.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
So I don't know that the road for them they're
going to be able to get through. I just don't
know that they can bank on saying we did it
last year, we'll do it again this year.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Here's the difference between last year's Denver team this year's
Denver team.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Last year's team had to do it.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
They needed some sort of a decent run to get
themselves playing the best. They had been swept at North
Dakota in late January and then just weren't finishing everything off.
They were a tie against Miami that's not great points,
a loss of seven to two, loss to Western, and
then the one that everybody points to, the four to
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three loss and callers that being their lost of the season.
They went on the run after that, but they were
they were in a better position right now. Their non
conference record was perfect this year. That certainly will help
you in terms of getting into the tournament. What they
do in the next few weeks and the NCHD will
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to find how high of a seed they have, but
I expect them to have home mice in the NHC
playoffs when all a said and done. They're a good team.
They'll get that they'll be fine. Is this the weekend
that turns them around? I think this is just a
tough place for them to play. But if they pull
two wins or even four or five points out of
this weekend, they can go back to a dead for
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feeling really good and maybe ready for one of those runs.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
The other NCHD matchup we're going to look at is
Colorado College at North Dakota. Neither team having the season
that they probably were expected to have. Colorado College started
out eight and oh they've gone five to twelve in
one since then. They did win their last game against
Western Michigan, which was a huge win. But the Colorado
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College is a road underdog at plus one forty. North
Dakota is minus one point eighty and the over under
on this one is five point five.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
Just say that.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
I like the way that North Dakota has played a
little bit of late. They had that overtime game against
Arizona State. They caught five out of six last weekend
against the Saint Cloud's state team that I'm not sure
where they are, and then they had two tight games.
One one got away from five to one loss to
Western Michigan, but they lost in overtime, So they've pulled
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some points out of weekends.
Speaker 5 (09:57):
Here.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
They took it on the and lost Friday, but then
bounce back with a really nice win. I got to
watch that game, the overtime come back against Western Michigan.
Ability to put that game away in the overtime. They
played a fantastic game. I guess for Colorado College, as
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we're saying this a lot now, it's can you be consistent?
There's not a lot of teams right now nationally that
are consistent, and those that are seem to be the
ones that are right at the top of the polls.
I think that in Colorado College North Dakota both for
these teams looking for consistency, I.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
Do North Dakota a little bit more on this one.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
Yeah, me too, And there's a reason for me is
that North Dakota has been a lot, a little bit
more consistent and a little bit better offensively. I think
there's more depth to North Dakota's scoring. I know that
when I look at Colorado College's scoring numbers that they
have I think half dozen guys that have scored at
least five goals, But North Dakota has more guys who
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have scored roughly the same amount they have. I think
almost everybody in their top nine have scored four goals
or more, and they've got a little bit more high
end scoring at least on their sheet.
Speaker 5 (11:13):
And then when you look in back TJ symptom held
there is.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
I don't know what the numbers implied there versus versus
Cayden and Berrico, they're up there or however you pronounce it.
Up at Colorado College back ends are both flawed and
both flawed in the sense that they're equal. So that's
when I start looking at the offense and North Dakota
a little bit better offensively. So that's where at home,
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I honestly hate the number. That's I think my biggest
concern is that I don't think you're gonna get enough
value on minus one eighty. But that's it's just that's
just what you're going to get though at this point.
Plus they're at home in North Dakota. That always draws
some action when you're at home with North Dakota, the
whole mice advantage all that. So maybe I picked North Dakota,
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but I don't know if I love the number that's
associated there.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
One other question Mark in this will be who is
in goal for Colorado College? You, sir, Carson Muser played
last Saturday night, got the win against Western Michigan after
Embariko let up the four on Friday. So we'll see
today bounce back to m Verico. Do you ride Muser?
Speaker 3 (12:25):
Who?
Speaker 1 (12:26):
It's a tough question, but though that should factor and
it might be a reason potentially to stay away from
this game too.
Speaker 5 (12:33):
Yeah, I think. Thank you for the correction on that
I was.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
I keep forgetting there were games last Saturday while I
was dying on my couch for the stomach bug.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Oh, we got more games to look at in our
next segment, including a big Eastern matchup, the Bean Pod Championship,
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Speaker 2 (13:31):
We're back with more of usc cho edge. This is
a big game, probably the second biggest game involving Hockey
East teams coming up this week and into next week,
and that is Maine at Providence. The over under on
this one is five point five. Maine is minus one twenty,
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Providence is minus one ten, So essentially a pick.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Them rightfully, these two teams are pretty close and everything
they do. Both of these teams have had some unbelievable
stretches of hockey this season. Both of these teams have
had some weekends they'd like back. They're right there fighting
for that top four spot in Hockey East. They're right there,
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and the pair wise, both of these teams comfortably inside
the bubble right now. I look at the way Maine
is playing of late, as strong as you could expect.
Good wins last weekend, that was the bounce back after
the Connecticut weekend.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
That kind of they took it on the chin.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
On Friday, they tie and win the shootout on Saturday,
but that ended a three game winning streak. They've played
really well in the second half, not that Providence has not.
They've had in Providence has had a real tough schedule
with Yukon. They got a win on the roadie Yukon
on Saturday. They had a couple of games against you Masslo.
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Those were two fantastic games. They lost one of those.
I lost the BC games before that. Before that, though,
I thought that Providence was playing really well.
Speaker 5 (15:04):
So where are we were?
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Two teams that have shown really great signs of brilliance.
They're fighting for the top of Hockey East. They should
be a pick them. I don't even want to say
that home ice dictates much here. I'm not sure that
Schneider Arena is one that really sways in. If anything,
Main fans travel so well, they could be pretty raucous
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in that place. So I'm going main here, and I
would if I had to make it better than the
over under, I'd go over, but I'd honestly stay away.
This could be a two to one game and a heartbeat.
Speaker 5 (15:38):
I can tell you It's gonna be a damn good
hockey game, is what it's going to be.
Speaker 4 (15:43):
Providence has win over Yukon was the first one since
it's Mayor's Cup win.
Speaker 5 (15:47):
Regulation Wise, I believe over Brown they had.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
Bet a couple of they'd hit their lull, and I
look at teams that I think that the lull it
can cause a bit of panic when you look at
a team, because you always wonder how they're going to respond.
I liked when the lull happens in January. I don't
like it too early because then you can derail your
season before it begins. I don't like it too late
because then you're you're not going playing your best hockey
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into the postseason. So every good hockey team has that
one stretch with a three weekends, three four weekends, and
they start battling things a bit, and there's enough film
that people get the wrong matchup everything that.
Speaker 5 (16:23):
Goes into it. So I like props.
Speaker 4 (16:26):
Here because I feel like that win over Connecticut gave
them the first step out of that dip where they
were playing really good hockey teams and just not.
Speaker 5 (16:38):
Winning the games.
Speaker 4 (16:39):
It's hard to beat teams like Littell in Boston College
and everyone else that's in Hockey East right now, so
I like the pick them since it is in Providence.
Maybe I like Providence just because sleeping in their own bed,
don't get on the bus Main coming down. It's the
first night Providence. In regard, I do not want to
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touch this over under. Though this could be two one game,
this could be a three to two game. I don't
think this is going to hit me if I'm picket
and a pick in the under. But I don't want
to touch this at all. But I do like Providence.
I like Providence and Main to split, but I think
Providence is going to win.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
The first game that brings us to the bean Pot,
which has Boston College and Boston University. It's been a
few years since they've faced off in the championship. They
both sailed into this an eight two win for BC
over Northeastern BU seven to one over Harvard, and this
one is heavily favored for BC. They both have games
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Friday night, so they have a little something to distract
them before they get to this over under. In this one,
not surprisingly, I think six and a half. But a
huge favorite is Boston College at minus two twenty and
BU is a plus one seventy.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
Yeah, I think the line is correct.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
When you come to the fact that BC just beat
BU two weekends ago, swept them a home and a
home six two nothing. I think it's fair. Should BC
be a favorite? Absolutely? I do have some concerns.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
I know that they have.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
They might have a little bit of injury stuff going on,
But talking to Greg Brown, he's hoping everybody is back
and available by Monday's game.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
BU. They showed what they can do though BC bhre.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
They both put on display their abilities this past week.
This probably is more there's no real inside edge to
this game.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
Does BU have a little bit more scoring depth? Yes.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
I don't even want to say that they have the
best goaltender because I'm not sure that Bu's freshman here.
Your Gorhoff is not as great as he seems to
be playing. I kind of wonder where the goaltending edge is,
if there is one anymore. This is one where you
just get to go with wherever your mind is thinking.
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If I had if somebody put a gun to my
head said make.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
A pick, I'd go BC.
Speaker 4 (19:11):
I am so happy that it's BCBU in the bean
Pot final. It just feels like those matchups from when
I was growing up, when they play and then you'd
see them in the bean Pot. You'd see them at
the Godden for a Hockey East Championship later on, or
you'd see them meet in the playoffs wherever it was
hasn't happened since sixteen, which BC one BC hasn't played
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for a final since nineteen.
Speaker 5 (19:33):
I know BU played a couple of years ago.
Speaker 4 (19:35):
They played in the consolation game a couple of years
ago for the first time ever against one another. To
give you an idea of how good these teams are
on this stage, I think the X factor for this
matchup is the goaltending, which we know what you're going
to get defensively from Boston College, which is arguably playing
the best defensive hockey in the country right now. Like
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the way that they are clamping teams down in Jacob
Fowl or bails out when they need to and forcing
shots from the dots to the wall and from the
blue line.
Speaker 5 (20:06):
Nothing's coming from inside.
Speaker 4 (20:08):
A few shots are coming from inside, and the penalty
kill is taking a step back to being great. They
were great against Northeastern at times over the week on Monday,
so Boston College is Boston College now. The difference is
that we still don't really know what BU is going
to do on this stage. And that's the part of
the Yogora factor that I come back to, which is
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he's only.
Speaker 5 (20:31):
Played a couple of games.
Speaker 4 (20:32):
There's now film on him which maybe didn't exist before.
Speaker 5 (20:35):
But he's such a unicorn, right.
Speaker 4 (20:37):
He's six ' five, he's got tremendous length, but he
knows how to play down and he's really turned BU
into a completely different defensive team. So that makes it
almost impossible to look at this game and wonder. Plus
it's a bean pot, right, throw the records out cliche central.
Speaker 5 (20:55):
Plus it's BCBU.
Speaker 4 (20:56):
Plus they just played, which I don't remember a time
that they played this close to playing each other in
the bean pot. I don't remember the last time they
did they play?
Speaker 5 (21:07):
Yeah? I didn't think they played right away, did they?
Speaker 3 (21:10):
It was two weeks later?
Speaker 5 (21:12):
Two weeks later, Yeah, it's two weeks.
Speaker 4 (21:14):
Then after the matchup, I thought it would be I
keep forgetting to put last week. Don't to my brain
from last week, and I like never existed in my brain.
Speaker 5 (21:23):
I thought it was like weekend.
Speaker 4 (21:24):
Bean pot, but they It's just crazy to me that
BU has changed so fundamentally so quickly, And that's what
makes this almost impossible to predict. We know what BC
brings to the table, and now it's just a matter
of how Yo Goorov is going to play on the stage.
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It doesn't seem like he cares one bit about the
atmosphere around him. I know the devils would probably be
happy with him if that's the case, but I don't
know which way to go. I don't know how to
I wouldn't make a pick on this one if I were.
In general, I think the team that gets the better
goaltending game this one's going to win it way.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
I will say under six and a half. I like
under here two.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Nothing gained last time out of the game before that
was six to two empty netters, So that's one that
would have teetered on six and a half. You would
have been right at six before the empty netters. I
do the under in this one.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Let's go to our pizza money, and that is the
one where the odds are so wide that we only
suggest you consider it if you're willing to spend the
money you'd otherwise spend on a pizzas. Maybe you're looking
to slim the waistline and you'll say, okay, I can
forego that and have a little fun with it. And
it's Saint Cloud's State at Western Michigan. I talk about
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two teams in different directions. Saint Cloud State's last win
was over Saint Thomas on December twenty ninth. They picked
up one point in a tie with North Dakota last Friday. Meanwhile,
Western Michigan's only loss was last Saturday in overtime at
Colorado College. Very different directions there. Five and a half
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is the over under. Saint Cloud State is plus two
hundred and Western Michigan is minus two seventy.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
This one has me a little bit fuddled.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
More just trying to get my arms around where Saint
Cloud State is right now. You mentioned that it's been
a while since they've had an actual win. They've had
some overtime games in there, gotten some points. I'm confused
as to what happened to the Saint Cloud State team
because I had them pegged as one of the best
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early on. I again not part of my beat, so
I don't see them a lot. I've been just looking
at stats, looking at lineups. They don't look like they're
having any They have injuries, but no more than any
other team. It's not like a leading scorer that I
can tell they've been splitting goaltending. I'm confused as to
where they are, so I just have even with a
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really wide number here and a plus two hundred, I
don't think that the odds are even good strong enough
that I would touch this one.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
No value in Western Michigan.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
Obviously that's part of the pizza money, but I don't
think I would put the pizza money onto.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
Saint Cloud State the way.
Speaker 4 (24:22):
Things are going right now, I already ordered a pizza
this week, so we'll do it.
Speaker 5 (24:27):
I had a large cheese the other day and it
was delightful fun.
Speaker 4 (24:33):
So I don't know that I have the pizza money
to suggest what to do because we already got the
takeout on it.
Speaker 5 (24:39):
So that's a a small problem over here.
Speaker 4 (24:42):
By the way, plating cheese pizza does not get its due.
Everyone always puts a topping in a plain slice of
cheese pizza. Still still writ in my wheelhouse on there,
I love a good slice of cheese, And if I
love a good slice of cheese, then you know what
I'll take Sant Cloud on this one, because that's the point.
Speaker 5 (25:00):
Let's throw the pizza money down and say, look, there.
Speaker 4 (25:04):
There is no good reason right now to take Saint
Cloud on the throw the money down and say, yeah, sure,
Saint Cloud, go for it. I will say that. So
that's probably why you take the pizza money and you
do it now. My I guess the My only issue
with Western right now is that Western Point lost that
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game to Colorado College last week. They were up to
one going into the third period and lost the game
in overtime. Bear in mind, three on three overtime does
nothing really for me as a as an indicator because
you're not playing five on five. But that loss, maybe
it's enough to justify a bit of.
Speaker 5 (25:47):
Money on Saint Cloud.
Speaker 4 (25:49):
I would have preferred to Saint Cloud were like plus
two point fifty here instead of plums two hundred. That's
the point of the pizza money bet, right Like you
look at the long dodds and say go for it.
Speaker 5 (25:59):
It's not a great bet, but that's the point of
pizza money bet.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
I will. I'll say I'll double up my pizza money
next week.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
Maybe we have had some pizza money underdogs win this season,
so you know what, yeh, don't count them out. I
think somebody right in your face even sure, yeah, I've.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
Had it rubbed.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
I've had people leave pizza boxes at my seat the
next night, so it happens.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
I'm gonna just say one last thing, Dan, I'm with
you on the plane. Cheese pizza Baby, A little bit
browned in bubbly on top, so you get that, just
a little extra flavor and a little crispiness in the cheese,
plus the stretch.
Speaker 5 (26:42):
That's outstanding.
Speaker 4 (26:44):
When I moved to Metro West, Massachusetts, outside of Boston,
there were no good pizza places around me, and it
took five years to find a decent pizza place. And
then when we found it, it was like heaven on Earth.
Finding that like that, Like a little bit dowie on
the crust, a little brown on the cheese, not a
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whole lot of sauce. You don't want to be dribbling
sauce and grease all of yourself. And you got to
be able to hold it when one hand, when you
have the beer and the other one.
Speaker 5 (27:12):
You got to be able to do that. It's there.
You go, chase pizza and I'll be back.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
I'll be back in Durham, New Hampshire this weekend where
we I don't remember the name of the bar, but
we had pretty good pizza that night after the ri
T game, back before things going around.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
Thanks No.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
Yes and wood Fire and really good underrated pizza.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
That was a really good one up in New Hampshire.
Speaker 4 (27:42):
Big fan of Durham, Hampshire, A really underrated road trip.
If anyone's going to a Hockey East market, that place is.
It's out of the way, but it's awesome. I love Durham.
Great pizza places up there too.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
If that other knucklehead that does pizza reviews ever stops
doing it, I think we'll step in.
Speaker 5 (28:00):
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I'm Ed Trevsker alongside Jim Connolly and Dan Rubin. Why
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don't we dive right in? There's a great matchup to
start things out. Michigan is at Michigan State. Michigan is
the underdog at plus one thirty five. Michigan State is
minus one seventy five. The over under on this one
is six point five.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Give me Michigan State here all day. One thing.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
I think this is actually a pretty good price. Michigan
State is at home on Friday. Saturday Nights game is
at Little Caesars. That'll be a neutral site, but Friday
at Michigan State. They haven't lost at home the Spartans
since their first game of the year at home against
Boston College, so it's been some time.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
They're playing really well at home.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
They haven't been taking their full complement of points of
six points every weekend, But how many teams do this
time of year.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Yeah, give me the Spartans over under.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
I'd if I had to bet it, I'd go to
you over, but I could see that game going either way,
so I'd stay away.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
Yeah, I'd stay away from the over under on this
the If Michigan were closer to plus one point fifty,
I'd say take Michigan all day and that with those
odds or with something like that, I don't think the
plus one thirty five. While it gives you better value
than maybe a minus two hundred, there's not a whole
lot of money to be made once you start getting
the minus two twenties, once you get to my over
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minus two hundred. But Michigan at plus one thirty five
just doesn't really do it for me, especially in Lance
where like you said, Michigan State has been so good.
I prefer to take Michigan on neutral ice. I prefer
to take Michigan at home. I don't think Michigan's going
to be the team that maybe knocks off Michigan State
at home. I do think that maybe they are one
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of the teams that will give them a good run,
but I don't know if it's going to be an
over under situation. I do like where the using the
puck line to dictate what you would predict in this
game or what you would see the puck lines one
and a half and one and a half is a
protaly hit and clearing that bar is a is plus
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one thirty five. So I'm not saying that the puck line,
but that kind of illustrates I think this is also
going to be a one goal game, and maybe I
don't know if this is going to hit the over
or not.
Speaker 5 (02:47):
I might even stay away from it altogether, but I don't.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Clarify the puck line plus one thirty five on Michigan State.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
To win two or more.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Yes, I yeah, I A Michigan has not been as
consistent as Michigan State has this year.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
It's that simple.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
I put Michigan State in Minnesota as two of the
best teams of the country, and I put the rest
of the Big ten below them.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
It's that simple. Are there tiers?
Speaker 5 (03:15):
Maybe?
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Is there maybe a third tier of teams that don't
belong with Michigan Maybe, But I see Michigan State Minnesota
the top, and then the other five teams just the
Hodgepodge below.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
There are a couple of big games in the NCCHC
first lists. Take a look at Denver at Arizona State.
The Pioneers may be looking for revenge for a pair
of losses at home November twenty second and twenty third.
Denver is the favorite at minus one sixty. Arizona State
is plus one twenty four, and the over under on
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this one is six point five.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
I'm hammering Arizona State here as the whole dog.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
I know Denver wants revenge, but Arizona State playing it
at Mallad has been difficult for any opponents this year.
Give me Arizona State in this one. They've already beat
Denver twice. Maybe they snuck up on them that kind
of I don't want to say put Denver into a tailspin,
but Denver has been less consistent since that weekend. So yeah,
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Arizona State until they give me a reason not to
take them same.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
And I think this is where when you look at
the value in this too, Arizona State at home as
an underdog again, the Denver team, it's flawed, Like I've
been saying it for a couple of weeks, where Denver
going into Minnesota Duluth, I didn't like what I was
seeing out of them. I didn't like what I saw
going into Omaha. There's something about Denver that feels still off.
Even though they scored eleven goals against Omaha, but the
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first night they lost a shootout.
Speaker 5 (04:44):
So it's inconsistent at best.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
And you're dealing with an Arizona State team that, as
of late, is starting to come on and make the run.
That makes you worry about facing a team like Arizona
State in the postseason, and for that reason, the gloss
to CC aside. I just can't look at a team
like Arizona State right now, which is still trying to
fight for its bubble status. This is a big win
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for them. There's a big game for them over under. Again,
I stay away from it. Like six, I love the number,
I love them, I don't like betting the number. I
love the number though, I love where it's at and
I don't think it's going to clear it. But at
the same time, I don't feel confident enough to say, oh, yeah,
there's gonna be a four to two type of game,
four to three type. You get a four to three
type of game. All of a sudden you're at the over,
so I might stay away from that. But if you
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feel strongly about Denver winning this game as a minus
one sixty, you better know something that we don't.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
By the way, Arizona State should scare everybody in the postseason,
especially if the seed would. They're one pace for right now.
He could easily beat one seed in the NCAA tournament.
I actually don't mind the over under here. I'd take
the over. I think both these teams can get up
and down the ice. They both can put up goals.
Low scoring games to these teams of late have been high.
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They could it stay under yeah, three, two or two potentially,
but six and a half, I'd got over.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Let me throw in one thing here. This is about
the same time last year that Denver caught fire. And
if I can mix some metaphors, could they see lightning
strike again?
Speaker 5 (06:21):
I think it's hard.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
I think that we I know we mentioned it a
couple of weeks ago about Denver getting fired and getting
hot about this time of year. Look, if you win
a national championship, a lot of things had to go right,
and you had to commit to a style. And I
know Denver flipped on the fly to playing much more
defensive hockey last year. But I also don't and that
was something we were saying a couple of weeks ago.
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But it's hard to do it every year in the
same bank, on the same thing over and over. And
we've seen that across the board with teams that are
in similar situations where.
Speaker 5 (06:54):
They've been in previous years.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
I draw in Northeastern, where Northeastern had been a bubble
team and had managed get their way by winning the
right games to the tournament. Sometimes you can't bank on
that to be like, all right, we're going to be
if we're around nineteen or twenty in the pair wise,
we're going to get to this number and that's going
to get us in the tournament, and that's what we're
gonna need. Denver right now, to me is a very
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good team, but fifth in the NCCHC makes their postseason
bid difficult, and I don't know that they're going to
get into the top three, and then you have to
worry about where you're going to wind up, which right
now I think actually puts them in.
Speaker 5 (07:31):
A regional with Boston College at Boston University. In an
ironic twist of the of last year's pros and four.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
So I don't know that the road for them they're
going to be able to get through. I just don't
know that they can bank on saying we did it
last year, we'll do it again this year.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Here's the difference between last year's Denver team this year's
Denver team.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Last year's team had to do it.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
They needed some sort of a decent run to get
themselves playing the best. They had been swept at North
Dakota in late January and then just weren't finishing everything off.
They were a tie against Miami that's not great points,
a loss of seven to two, loss to Western, and
then the one that everybody points to, the four to
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three loss and callers that being their lost of the season.
They went on the run after that, but they were
they were in a better position right now. Their non
conference record was perfect this year. That certainly will help
you in terms of getting into the tournament. What they
do in the next few weeks and the NCHD will
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to find how high of a seed they have, but
I expect them to have home mice in the NHC
playoffs when all a said and done. They're a good team.
They'll get that they'll be fine. Is this the weekend
that turns them around? I think this is just a
tough place for them to play. But if they pull
two wins or even four or five points out of
this weekend, they can go back to a dead for
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feeling really good and maybe ready for one of those runs.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
The other NCHD matchup we're going to look at is
Colorado College at North Dakota. Neither team having the season
that they probably were expected to have. Colorado College started
out eight and oh they've gone five to twelve in
one since then. They did win their last game against
Western Michigan, which was a huge win. But the Colorado
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College is a road underdog at plus one forty. North
Dakota is minus one point eighty and the over under
on this one is five point five.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
Just say that.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
I like the way that North Dakota has played a
little bit of late. They had that overtime game against
Arizona State. They caught five out of six last weekend
against the Saint Cloud's state team that I'm not sure
where they are, and then they had two tight games.
One one got away from five to one loss to
Western Michigan, but they lost in overtime, So they've pulled
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some points out of weekends.
Speaker 5 (09:57):
Here.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
They took it on the and lost Friday, but then
bounce back with a really nice win. I got to
watch that game, the overtime come back against Western Michigan.
Ability to put that game away in the overtime. They
played a fantastic game. I guess for Colorado College, as
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we're saying this a lot now, it's can you be consistent?
There's not a lot of teams right now nationally that
are consistent, and those that are seem to be the
ones that are right at the top of the polls.
I think that in Colorado College North Dakota both for
these teams looking for consistency, I.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
Do North Dakota a little bit more on this one.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
Yeah, me too, And there's a reason for me is
that North Dakota has been a lot, a little bit
more consistent and a little bit better offensively. I think
there's more depth to North Dakota's scoring. I know that
when I look at Colorado College's scoring numbers that they
have I think half dozen guys that have scored at
least five goals, But North Dakota has more guys who
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have scored roughly the same amount they have. I think
almost everybody in their top nine have scored four goals
or more, and they've got a little bit more high
end scoring at least on their sheet.
Speaker 5 (11:13):
And then when you look in back TJ symptom held
there is.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
I don't know what the numbers implied there versus versus
Cayden and Berrico, they're up there or however you pronounce it.
Up at Colorado College back ends are both flawed and
both flawed in the sense that they're equal. So that's
when I start looking at the offense and North Dakota
a little bit better offensively. So that's where at home,
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I honestly hate the number. That's I think my biggest
concern is that I don't think you're gonna get enough
value on minus one eighty. But that's it's just that's
just what you're going to get though at this point.
Plus they're at home in North Dakota. That always draws
some action when you're at home with North Dakota, the
whole mice advantage all that. So maybe I picked North Dakota,
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but I don't know if I love the number that's
associated there.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
One other question Mark in this will be who is
in goal for Colorado College? You, sir, Carson Muser played
last Saturday night, got the win against Western Michigan after
Embariko let up the four on Friday. So we'll see
today bounce back to m Verico. Do you ride Muser?
Speaker 3 (12:25):
Who?
Speaker 1 (12:26):
It's a tough question, but though that should factor and
it might be a reason potentially to stay away from
this game too.
Speaker 5 (12:33):
Yeah, I think. Thank you for the correction on that
I was.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
I keep forgetting there were games last Saturday while I
was dying on my couch for the stomach bug.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
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We're back with more of usc cho edge. This is
a big game, probably the second biggest game involving Hockey
East teams coming up this week and into next week,
and that is Maine at Providence. The over under on
this one is five point five. Maine is minus one twenty,
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Providence is minus one ten, So essentially a pick.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Them rightfully, these two teams are pretty close and everything
they do. Both of these teams have had some unbelievable
stretches of hockey this season. Both of these teams have
had some weekends they'd like back. They're right there fighting
for that top four spot in Hockey East. They're right there,
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and the pair wise, both of these teams comfortably inside
the bubble right now. I look at the way Maine
is playing of late, as strong as you could expect.
Good wins last weekend, that was the bounce back after
the Connecticut weekend.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
That kind of they took it on the chin.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
On Friday, they tie and win the shootout on Saturday,
but that ended a three game winning streak. They've played
really well in the second half, not that Providence has not.
They've had in Providence has had a real tough schedule
with Yukon. They got a win on the roadie Yukon
on Saturday. They had a couple of games against you Masslo.
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Those were two fantastic games. They lost one of those.
I lost the BC games before that. Before that, though,
I thought that Providence was playing really well.
Speaker 5 (15:04):
So where are we were?
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Two teams that have shown really great signs of brilliance.
They're fighting for the top of Hockey East. They should
be a pick them. I don't even want to say
that home ice dictates much here. I'm not sure that
Schneider Arena is one that really sways in. If anything,
Main fans travel so well, they could be pretty raucous
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in that place. So I'm going main here, and I
would if I had to make it better than the
over under, I'd go over, but I'd honestly stay away.
This could be a two to one game and a heartbeat.
Speaker 5 (15:38):
I can tell you It's gonna be a damn good
hockey game, is what it's going to be.
Speaker 4 (15:43):
Providence has win over Yukon was the first one since
it's Mayor's Cup win.
Speaker 5 (15:47):
Regulation Wise, I believe over Brown they had.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
Bet a couple of they'd hit their lull, and I
look at teams that I think that the lull it
can cause a bit of panic when you look at
a team, because you always wonder how they're going to respond.
I liked when the lull happens in January. I don't
like it too early because then you can derail your
season before it begins. I don't like it too late
because then you're you're not going playing your best hockey
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into the postseason. So every good hockey team has that
one stretch with a three weekends, three four weekends, and
they start battling things a bit, and there's enough film
that people get the wrong matchup everything that.
Speaker 5 (16:23):
Goes into it. So I like props.
Speaker 4 (16:26):
Here because I feel like that win over Connecticut gave
them the first step out of that dip where they
were playing really good hockey teams and just not.
Speaker 5 (16:38):
Winning the games.
Speaker 4 (16:39):
It's hard to beat teams like Littell in Boston College
and everyone else that's in Hockey East right now, so
I like the pick them since it is in Providence.
Maybe I like Providence just because sleeping in their own bed,
don't get on the bus Main coming down. It's the
first night Providence. In regard, I do not want to
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touch this over under. Though this could be two one game,
this could be a three to two game. I don't
think this is going to hit me if I'm picket
and a pick in the under. But I don't want
to touch this at all. But I do like Providence.
I like Providence and Main to split, but I think
Providence is going to win.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
The first game that brings us to the bean Pot,
which has Boston College and Boston University. It's been a
few years since they've faced off in the championship. They
both sailed into this an eight two win for BC
over Northeastern BU seven to one over Harvard, and this
one is heavily favored for BC. They both have games
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Friday night, so they have a little something to distract
them before they get to this over under. In this one,
not surprisingly, I think six and a half. But a
huge favorite is Boston College at minus two twenty and
BU is a plus one seventy.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
Yeah, I think the line is correct.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
When you come to the fact that BC just beat
BU two weekends ago, swept them a home and a
home six two nothing. I think it's fair. Should BC
be a favorite? Absolutely? I do have some concerns.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
I know that they have.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
They might have a little bit of injury stuff going on,
But talking to Greg Brown, he's hoping everybody is back
and available by Monday's game.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
BU. They showed what they can do though BC bhre.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
They both put on display their abilities this past week.
This probably is more there's no real inside edge to
this game.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
Does BU have a little bit more scoring depth? Yes.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
I don't even want to say that they have the
best goaltender because I'm not sure that Bu's freshman here.
Your Gorhoff is not as great as he seems to
be playing. I kind of wonder where the goaltending edge is,
if there is one anymore. This is one where you
just get to go with wherever your mind is thinking.
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If I had if somebody put a gun to my
head said make.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
A pick, I'd go BC.
Speaker 4 (19:11):
I am so happy that it's BCBU in the bean
Pot final. It just feels like those matchups from when
I was growing up, when they play and then you'd
see them in the bean Pot. You'd see them at
the Godden for a Hockey East Championship later on, or
you'd see them meet in the playoffs wherever it was
hasn't happened since sixteen, which BC one BC hasn't played
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for a final since nineteen.
Speaker 5 (19:33):
I know BU played a couple of years ago.
Speaker 4 (19:35):
They played in the consolation game a couple of years
ago for the first time ever against one another. To
give you an idea of how good these teams are
on this stage, I think the X factor for this
matchup is the goaltending, which we know what you're going
to get defensively from Boston College, which is arguably playing
the best defensive hockey in the country right now. Like
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the way that they are clamping teams down in Jacob
Fowl or bails out when they need to and forcing
shots from the dots to the wall and from the
blue line.
Speaker 5 (20:06):
Nothing's coming from inside.
Speaker 4 (20:08):
A few shots are coming from inside, and the penalty
kill is taking a step back to being great. They
were great against Northeastern at times over the week on Monday,
so Boston College is Boston College now. The difference is
that we still don't really know what BU is going
to do on this stage. And that's the part of
the Yogora factor that I come back to, which is
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he's only.
Speaker 5 (20:31):
Played a couple of games.
Speaker 4 (20:32):
There's now film on him which maybe didn't exist before.
Speaker 5 (20:35):
But he's such a unicorn, right.
Speaker 4 (20:37):
He's six ' five, he's got tremendous length, but he
knows how to play down and he's really turned BU
into a completely different defensive team. So that makes it
almost impossible to look at this game and wonder. Plus
it's a bean pot, right, throw the records out cliche central.
Speaker 5 (20:55):
Plus it's BCBU.
Speaker 4 (20:56):
Plus they just played, which I don't remember a time
that they played this close to playing each other in
the bean pot. I don't remember the last time they
did they play?
Speaker 5 (21:07):
Yeah? I didn't think they played right away, did they?
Speaker 3 (21:10):
It was two weeks later?
Speaker 5 (21:12):
Two weeks later, Yeah, it's two weeks.
Speaker 4 (21:14):
Then after the matchup, I thought it would be I
keep forgetting to put last week. Don't to my brain
from last week, and I like never existed in my brain.
Speaker 5 (21:23):
I thought it was like weekend.
Speaker 4 (21:24):
Bean pot, but they It's just crazy to me that
BU has changed so fundamentally so quickly, And that's what
makes this almost impossible to predict. We know what BC
brings to the table, and now it's just a matter
of how Yo Goorov is going to play on the stage.
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It doesn't seem like he cares one bit about the
atmosphere around him. I know the devils would probably be
happy with him if that's the case, but I don't
know which way to go. I don't know how to
I wouldn't make a pick on this one if I were.
In general, I think the team that gets the better
goaltending game this one's going to win it way.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
I will say under six and a half. I like
under here two.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Nothing gained last time out of the game before that
was six to two empty netters, So that's one that
would have teetered on six and a half. You would
have been right at six before the empty netters. I
do the under in this one.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Let's go to our pizza money, and that is the
one where the odds are so wide that we only
suggest you consider it if you're willing to spend the
money you'd otherwise spend on a pizzas. Maybe you're looking
to slim the waistline and you'll say, okay, I can
forego that and have a little fun with it. And
it's Saint Cloud's State at Western Michigan. I talk about
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two teams in different directions. Saint Cloud State's last win
was over Saint Thomas on December twenty ninth. They picked
up one point in a tie with North Dakota last Friday. Meanwhile,
Western Michigan's only loss was last Saturday in overtime at
Colorado College. Very different directions there. Five and a half
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is the over under. Saint Cloud State is plus two
hundred and Western Michigan is minus two seventy.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
This one has me a little bit fuddled.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
More just trying to get my arms around where Saint
Cloud State is right now. You mentioned that it's been
a while since they've had an actual win. They've had
some overtime games in there, gotten some points. I'm confused
as to what happened to the Saint Cloud State team
because I had them pegged as one of the best
(23:38):
early on. I again not part of my beat, so
I don't see them a lot. I've been just looking
at stats, looking at lineups. They don't look like they're
having any They have injuries, but no more than any
other team. It's not like a leading scorer that I
can tell they've been splitting goaltending. I'm confused as to
where they are, so I just have even with a
(24:02):
really wide number here and a plus two hundred, I
don't think that the odds are even good strong enough
that I would touch this one.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
No value in Western Michigan.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
Obviously that's part of the pizza money, but I don't
think I would put the pizza money onto.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
Saint Cloud State the way.
Speaker 4 (24:22):
Things are going right now, I already ordered a pizza
this week, so we'll do it.
Speaker 5 (24:27):
I had a large cheese the other day and it
was delightful fun.
Speaker 4 (24:33):
So I don't know that I have the pizza money
to suggest what to do because we already got the
takeout on it.
Speaker 5 (24:39):
So that's a a small problem over here.
Speaker 4 (24:42):
By the way, plating cheese pizza does not get its due.
Everyone always puts a topping in a plain slice of
cheese pizza. Still still writ in my wheelhouse on there,
I love a good slice of cheese, And if I
love a good slice of cheese, then you know what
I'll take Sant Cloud on this one, because that's the point.
Speaker 5 (25:00):
Let's throw the pizza money down and say, look, there.
Speaker 4 (25:04):
There is no good reason right now to take Saint
Cloud on the throw the money down and say, yeah, sure,
Saint Cloud, go for it. I will say that. So
that's probably why you take the pizza money and you
do it now. My I guess the My only issue
with Western right now is that Western Point lost that
(25:26):
game to Colorado College last week. They were up to
one going into the third period and lost the game
in overtime. Bear in mind, three on three overtime does
nothing really for me as a as an indicator because
you're not playing five on five. But that loss, maybe
it's enough to justify a bit of.
Speaker 5 (25:47):
Money on Saint Cloud.
Speaker 4 (25:49):
I would have preferred to Saint Cloud were like plus
two point fifty here instead of plums two hundred. That's
the point of the pizza money bet, right Like you
look at the long dodds and say go for it.
Speaker 5 (25:59):
It's not a great bet, but that's the point of
pizza money bet.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
I will. I'll say I'll double up my pizza money
next week.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
Maybe we have had some pizza money underdogs win this season,
so you know what, yeh, don't count them out. I
think somebody right in your face even sure, yeah, I've.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
Had it rubbed.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
I've had people leave pizza boxes at my seat the
next night, so it happens.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
I'm gonna just say one last thing, Dan, I'm with
you on the plane. Cheese pizza Baby, A little bit
browned in bubbly on top, so you get that, just
a little extra flavor and a little crispiness in the cheese,
plus the stretch.
Speaker 5 (26:42):
That's outstanding.
Speaker 4 (26:44):
When I moved to Metro West, Massachusetts, outside of Boston,
there were no good pizza places around me, and it
took five years to find a decent pizza place. And
then when we found it, it was like heaven on Earth.
Finding that like that, Like a little bit dowie on
the crust, a little brown on the cheese, not a
(27:05):
whole lot of sauce. You don't want to be dribbling
sauce and grease all of yourself. And you got to
be able to hold it when one hand, when you
have the beer and the other one.
Speaker 5 (27:12):
You got to be able to do that. It's there.
You go, chase pizza and I'll be back.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
I'll be back in Durham, New Hampshire this weekend where
we I don't remember the name of the bar, but
we had pretty good pizza that night after the ri
T game, back before things going around.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
Thanks No.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
Yes and wood Fire and really good underrated pizza.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
That was a really good one up in New Hampshire.
Speaker 4 (27:42):
Big fan of Durham, Hampshire, A really underrated road trip.
If anyone's going to a Hockey East market, that place is.
It's out of the way, but it's awesome. I love Durham.
Great pizza places up there too.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
If that other knucklehead that does pizza reviews ever stops
doing it, I think we'll step in.
Speaker 5 (28:00):
And that'll wrap up this edition of us c ch
O Edge.
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