February 21, 2025 • 27 mins
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 21, 2025:
- Ohio State +170 @ Minnesota -220; over/under 5.5
- Penn State +220 @ Michigan State -298; o/u 6.5
- Western Michigan -154 @ Arizona State +120; o/u 6.5
- Maine -160 @ UConn +124; o/u 5.5
- UMass -130 @ New Hampshire +100; o/u 5.5
- Northeastern +220 @ Boston University -298; o/u 6.5 (our "pizza money" game)
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
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I'm Ed Trevsker along with Jim Connolly and Dan Rubin.
The first game on our docket has a big ten
matchup Ohio State at Minnesota. Ohio State's the underdog on
the road at plus one seventy Minnesota favorite at home
at minus two. Twenty over under on this game is
five and a half. Before I turn it over to you, guys,
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you got to admit the Buckeyes are one of the
hottest teams in the country this month and since the
first of the year.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Yeah, that's actually what implementing my pick this week. I
don't have a lot of underdogs picked this week. I
do have Ohio State. Do I think that there's a
chance that they'll have a tough time in Minnesota at Mariuchi, certainly,
But I like Ohio State. They have played some great hockey.
They're not giving up a lot of goals right now.
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They're a tough team to play against. I like the
I do the over here, though, I feel like this
is at five and a half and this one shade's
a little bit toward the over.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
I still think it's going to go.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
You're probably going to see a five three, five two,
four to three type of game. Is there a chance
you lose that over bet with a fourth to two?
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Yes.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
I look at this, and I'm looking at it through
the lens of the fact that Ohio State in Minnesota,
whoever wins this series, still has a legitimate shot at
Michigan State in the Big Ten regular season championship, and
if you you're really in the driver's seat for the
top spot in the postseason tournament. Given what I'm looking
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at in terms of value on the bet, even though
Minnesota is sitting at minus two twenty, Ohio State has
done enough to tie Minnesota in the standings, and depending
on who wins this game, if Ohio State wins it,
I think the percentage goes up to a seventy percent
likelihood of finishing second. If you lose, it drops down
to about thirty, you're sitting in about a fifty to
fifty shot of hitting second.
Speaker 5 (02:28):
Versus third, with an open door to reach up into
first place.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
That said, when you're looking at a gambling odds, the
fact that Ohio State is plus one seventy, I think
is a lot of respect to Minnesota at home. But
there is a ton of value on the fact that
Ohio State is just as equal to Minnesota in the standings.
Speaker 5 (02:52):
I'll even go so far as.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
To say in the statistics they both score out the
same per game, they both allow out the same. I
want to say that Ohio State is a little better
and back than Minnesota is, but Minnesota is a little
better up front than Ohio State is. But since it's negligible,
then you look at the odds and there it is
plus one seventy. That's an absurd number for Ohio State.
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The way the fuck guys are playing right now.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
These two teams already played once and that was a split.
Both teams routed one another a six to one decision
one way, a five to one decision the other way.
So I don't feel like we learned a lot from
the first meeting between these teams, except for the fact
that there'll be goals. That expect some goals in these games.
I don't expect both teams. I don't expect both teams
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to score low. That's why I'm saying God with the over.
But I even expect both teams to probably hit three
goals in this game. It just feels that these two
teams can get up and down the ice.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
I look at the differences in them.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
I think it's if you look at just conference play,
Minnesota barely has a slight edge. If you look at
the overall, I think you can say that Minnesota has
a bigger edge when you look at the overall in
terms of goals allowed versus goals scored. But I still
look at this as a coin flip. So seeing the
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plus one seventy for Ohio State, if I was betting this,
there's no way I could stay away from that one.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Well, let's go to another Big Ten game. Penn State
is at Michigan State. Now Penn State. We had written
them off on our podcast at semester break. They were
zero to eight in the Big Ten. Since then, seven
two and three, and of the two ties they won
or of the three ties they've won two of the shootouts.
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Penn State maybe even hotter right now than Ohio State.
They're the road underdog plus two twenty. Michigan State is
minus two ninety eight at home over under six and
a half.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Yeah, I don't light the numbers here at all. The
minus two ninety eight or mission against State is very high,
takes all value away, and I don't see Penn State
pulling off a win here on the road. So I'm
in the stay away mode. You're not getting the value
off Michigan State that you would need. I do look
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at this as another one where the over probably hits.
The last time these two teams played, one game had
ten goals scored. The other game had two four goals scored,
So the over under six and a half kind of
right in the middle of that. I still think that
I just have a hard time betting unders in general.
I guess I would probably go with the over and
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not feel very secure with it this whole game.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
If I were to bet it, I wouldn't feel very
secure with my money.
Speaker 5 (05:43):
State at this point.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
One of the things that I don't want to say
frustrates me about the system that we live in with
college hockey.
Speaker 5 (05:49):
Everyone knows that I have a little bit of.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
Issues with juking the mats so to speak, is that
Penn State is still very much alive for an at
large bit and if they win a game this weekend,
that is a really big deal because they get the
bonus credit for winning on the road, and they're be
and they would be beating a team that is essentially
the number one to number two in the pairwise number
one in the country and the like. That would do
wonders to get them closer to the cut line, which
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is going to be I think we've we fell on
thirteen is going to be the thirteen In between thirteen
and fourteen is the cut line. So for Penn State
sitting around the sixteen seventeen mark, these are steak, big games.
Speaker 5 (06:25):
That said, my issue with Penn State is that.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
They're I don't like using Look, you got to play
the big boy hockey right now, like you got to
step up in a game in the Big ten where
everybody's good.
Speaker 5 (06:36):
But if you look at who.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
They've beaten over the past couple of months, they did
not They beat Ohio State, but required and overtime. They
beat Ohio State in the shootout. It was a six
to six game they split with Michigan. The rest of
the games have been against Wisconsin and Notre Dame. And
so for me, the games that are really going to
set Penn State apart and make or break the season
for them is the Michigan State game in the Minnesota game,
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which is who they end the season with. So playing
at Michigan State this weekend for me is the wait
and see. If they win games this weekend, you're gonna
get less value next weekend.
Speaker 5 (07:11):
But I'll probably like them for one game against Minnesota.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
But I don't like them right now that if we
were talking about this as a pizza bet, maybe I
might say, yeah, throw whatever down on Penn State and
don't be afraid to lose it.
Speaker 5 (07:25):
Who cares, it's your pizza money.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
But there's just not enough on what Penn State has
won to get to the bubble that to me indicates
that they would go into Lansing and beat Michigan State,
which is playing it playing itself into probably the hottest team.
Speaker 5 (07:46):
Right now in the country. Right Are they the number
one team?
Speaker 3 (07:50):
No?
Speaker 5 (07:51):
But I really like.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
What I've been seeing out of Michigan State, and I'm
not I'm not with Penn State on this one, I
do like the over because I think everybody's gonna score.
Speaker 5 (08:00):
It's the Big Ten. Everybody scores goals.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Yeah, a lot concerns me about just Penn State and
Big Ten play. They're negative ten in terms of gold differential,
but they are plus thirteen overall in gold differentials. They
really get that. They lose a lot when it comes
to Big Ten play as opposed to their non conference play.
They're a plus twenty three and non conference play at
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minus ten. In Big Ten plays, they're struggling at times.
But as you said, Ed, and I think this is
the big highlight here is they are playing their best
hockey of the season right now. I still don't think
that I'm willing to put money behind the fact that
they're going to pull out a victory in Lancing on
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Friday night, but I do think that there's some certainly
some merit to looking at Penn State in this matchup.
Speaker 5 (08:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
My one counterpoint, just the last point on Michigan State
is that they did lose a couple games along the way.
I know, I say they're one of the hottest teams,
they do have losses, but I tend to chalk up
a game a lost to Michigan as being a rivalry
game where anything can happen and something weird might happen.
And I don't chalk up the lost to Ohio State
as being it was on the road. I look, we're
playing this game in Lansing and that I just don't
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see it for Penn State right now. And I think
I'm with you there though. That said, like I said,
if you want that as your pizza bet, then go
for it. But I think there's a better pizza bet
out there, which we'll discuss later.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Let's turn to the NCCHC. It's a battle for the
top of the league's standings. Western Michigan can pull away,
Arizona State can cut it close if there's a sweep,
And for Western Michigan they are point zero zero zero
three behind Maine and the RPI is they look to
get into the top four in the pairwise and maybe
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be a number one seed in a regional. But this
one has Arizona State a home underdog at plus one twenty.
Western Michigan is minus one fifty four over under on
this one seems really good to me. At six and
a half.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
I agree there, ed, I like the over under If
I had a choice, I'd go under here.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
I'll just start with that.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
I've been saying that I'm not betting against Arizona State
till they give me a reason.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
They're at home.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
I know Western is the best team probably in the NCCHC,
but I still like Arizona State. They've played so well
at home. They get a nice emotional boost every time
they're in Mullet. So I like Arizona State here. Just
this one doesn't even have a lot of analytics of
stats behind in my opinion. I just I've liked Arizona
State for a while now, and I'm not going to
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change now.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
This is where I come back to my home underdog theory,
which is that that is that I think this is
a very evenly matched game, and I think that that
making Western Michigan the favorite makes a whole lot of sense.
Western Michigan, I think even if they lose both games
this weekend, I think still has a ninety three percent
chance of winning the league. It's there. If they win,
I'm pretty sure they clinch it. I'm pretty sure if
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they sweep the weekend, it's over. They're your regular season champions.
They think Western Michigan is probably the best team in
college hockey that we're not really talking about still, Like
we still talk about Michigan State, talk about Boston College,
talk about Maine. Denver is a defending national champion, usually
works its way into the conversation Minnesota.
Speaker 5 (11:23):
No one's really talking about Western Michigan.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
And that's a crime, in my mind, one of those
sports crimes where we should be talking more about them.
But at minus one fifty four going on the road
to Arizona State, you've lost some of your value in
the bet to a team that is playing incredibly well
right now. And like you said, you want to ride
some of these teams while they're still until they give
you a reason not to. Arizona State is in that
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mode where it's an underdog at home. You're not really
gonna find a whole lot of home underdog status in
the desert for Arizona State.
Speaker 5 (11:58):
Western Michigan gives you that. I would have.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
Actually put this more as a if these would have
been my odds if this were in cowl Mazoo, like
I would have made a plus one twenty on Arizona State.
Speaker 5 (12:10):
I would have made this one.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
Coming back to Arizona maybe more close to a dead split,
like a minus one oh five minus one ten, But hey,
go with the sun Devils. I actually don't hate the
under here either. At six and a half, I just
I feel like that's a high number to get to.
Speaker 5 (12:26):
I just don't. I think that's a I think that's
a tough number to reach.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
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We're back with usccho edge Maine at Yukon. Yukon got
four out of six points up at Alphon just about
a month ago, and Yukon has been playing pretty well.
Speaker 5 (13:30):
Maine in the top four.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Look we mentioned in the pairwise five and a half
is the over under in this single game this weekend
on Friday, Maine is the favorite at minus one sixty.
Yukon is plus one twenty four at home.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
I think if I just blindly bet this one without
having a lot of background on the two teams, I
play Yukon home underdog. They're pretty evenly matched when you
look at a lot of their stats, but then you
really think about it. In Alvin boya Is he might
win the Microrector Award this year. He's possibly the best
goaltender in the country. He is winning games for Maine
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and win. Maine puts the puck in the net like
they did last last Saturday night in the third period
against New Hampshire. When they score, you can't beat them
because they're not giving up more than two a game
right now.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
That's the cap on them. So as long as they
get their three goals that they're a winner.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
So I see them finding a way to score three
on Yukon, and I expect Alvin Boyer to keep this
one low scoring. That's why I like the under here,
despite the fact that the under is shaded minus one
forty five under five. I'm basically betting on three goals,
four goals, or five goals here.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
I see that happening.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
Agree, and it's only because I don't think you're going
to get three goals against Boya or four goals against
Boya to hit a four to two win or.
Speaker 5 (14:55):
Something like that.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
I don't mind taking Yukon with the home underdog status
and the plus one twenty four. I do think Maine
is significantly better and is probably going to wind up
in that number one seed conversation before the year is over.
I do think Yukon because Yukon also is playing for
I believe a first round by it coming down the
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end of the season, and there's a lot of teams
shammed up in Hockey East in general around that last
by spot.
Speaker 5 (15:25):
And the one thing that I think.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
Makes Yukon dangerous towards that buy is because nobody really
wants to play the extra game and lose it and
cost yourself a potential bad loss. In the pairwise or
anything like that. With the potential two seed on the
line for Connecticut. So I think being able to play
at home against Maine, the fact that it's in Connecticut,
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I know that Maine is playing exceptional. Yukon seems to
have straightened itself out after starting what is an end
of season, second half month long stand where they started
with a couple of losses. They've seen they've used the
right opponents to straighten themselves out. One thing that I'll
throw in here is that it's actually not easy.
Speaker 5 (16:09):
And I said this elsewhere. I've said this to a
couple of people.
Speaker 4 (16:13):
It's not easy to play at home for that long,
to play seven or eight games at home, directly because
you can't escape it, like you don't have that road trip,
that bus ride to escape if something starts going wrong.
They've done a really good job of bouncing back. And
I think that's probably why I like Connecticut in this one.
Plus is the home underdog status. I just shade towards
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the value there. Do I think they're gonna win. It's
really hard, But in terms of a bet and in
terms of an odds, I tend to look at this
one and go Hey, look, minus one sixty on Maine
kind of zap some of the value away from it.
This were closer to a one to twenty, i'd go
with it. But you're not going to get minus one
twenty on me. That's just not happening. That's where there's
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a little bit extra value on Connecticut.
Speaker 5 (16:57):
This one.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
I might actually stay away from it all together, but
if you going to bet it, I might lead into
Yukon for one game this week.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Let's go elsewhere. In Hockey East U Mass is at
New Hampshire. They'll go to Amherst on Saturday in the
home and home. U Mass coming off a split with
BC last weekend and they're number thirteen in the pair wise,
right on the edge. Their soft non conference schedule hasn't
helped them. New Hampshire really, the wheels have come off
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since the first of the year for them. Five and
a half is the over under you. Mass is a
slight favorite at minus one thirty in New Hampshire is
at home a plus one hundred.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
This is a tough one for me when we think
about this series. We're two weeks away from being removed
from both of these teams being the pairwise bubble. In
those two weeks, U mass moved themselves up. Obviously, the
win over Boston College on the road helped them significantly.
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You and Ah, they've moved themselves down and made it
so that they put much have to win the Hockey
East tournament. I think they have NCAA expectations. This is
a team that was right there in the picture not
too long ago. Because of that, I just I feel
like you when age is heading the wrong way and
they're finding unfortunately, they're finding ways to lose games. And
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anybody that knows me knows that Mike Suis is one
of my favorite coaches out there, especially in Hockey East.
He's a great guy, good friend. His team's just finding
ways to lose games right now. They've had third period
leads and four straight games and come out without a
single win in those four. I also like the under here.
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Neither of these teams put up a ton of goals.
It actually shades toward the under minus one twenty five.
So I guess I should be surprised that I'm stuck
on this under here. But give me you massive minus
one thirty, give me the under of minus one twenty five.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
That's a nice little parlay if you can hit both legs.
Speaker 4 (18:55):
Yeah, I agree. I don't love what's happened with you.
UNH is same as it's been across the board. The
one thing about U MASS is U MASS played itself
into the inside of the bubble by beating Boston College
last week because they also won the game on the road.
So winning that game at Connie Forum moves them up
to the twelve or thirteen spot, and now they're in
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a situation where they have inside control a bit as
long as they don't off the table and get passed
by other teams.
Speaker 5 (19:24):
The two games against Maine later on in the at
the end of.
Speaker 4 (19:27):
The year hopefully will not really cost you MASS if
they can handle business against UNH and against Bowl next week.
The biggest thing for me is going on the road,
which I which I'll always say, Hey, that buys you
a little bit in the value, But I don't see
enough on UNH given everything that's been going on. If
you're plugging this into a computer, you're going to get
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more of an evenly matched up game because of the
numbers line up, the fact that they're close in the
pair wise. But when you start to factor out and
start to see what's happened over the last month.
Speaker 5 (20:00):
I just don't like UNH.
Speaker 4 (20:01):
The one thing that's interesting about this game is if
U MASS wins or if you MASS even sweeps, UNH
doesn't actually really help them towards getting up into that
next tier in Hockey East. To play into that next
I think they're still likely to finish sixth or seventh
if that happens. Even if UNH sweeps at this point,
they're still likely to finish sixty seven percent chance of
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finishing in eleven. So outside of all of that, when
you factor all of that in, you take all those
outside other factors, you start looking for an edge. It's
just not there for you and H. The one thing
about the old under is also there hasn't been a
whole lot of goal scoring between these teams. So if
you're gonna get a two one game, I think even
getting to five drugs, it could be a struggle for
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these two teams.
Speaker 5 (20:46):
And that's just because.
Speaker 4 (20:47):
UMass is geared towards its back line and UNH just
has them there.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Our pizza money bet the game that you put money
on if you're willing to give up that twenty dollars
pizza is Northeastern at Boston University, first of only two
games they'll play in Hockey East this year. It's a
home and home series at BU on Friday. Six and
a half is the over under. Northeastern is a heavy
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underdog at plus two twenty and Boston University, of course
heavily favored at home and minus two ninety eight. And
as we look at this, I've got to think that
Boston University is like a totally different team since they
added Mikile you go Off.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
I think they're more confident. When you look at his record,
it's decent. What supports I think you go off is
his actual stats, So the win loss put that aside.
He's lost in low scoring games too. His numbers are phenomenal,
great save percent, great goals against staffords. Right now, Northeastern
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just doesn't feel like they have things in.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
The right direction. Yes.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
Did they get a win against Lowell last Friday on
the road to two nothings shutout, Yes, and that was
a good thing. They held Lowell to just a couple
of goals the next nine right, losing three to one
with an empty netter. But this Northeastern team has not
really been playing well since a win over Quinnipiac on
the road on January fourth. That's a long time ago.
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There's been signs that this team is good and we'll
get better at times this year.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
But I'm just not there on them right now.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
Even with the great odds, the plus two to twenty,
it's not that different. It's exactly the same as Penn State.
I wasn't touching Penn State against Michigan State. I'm not
touching Northeastern at Boston University right now.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
Save the money, eat the pizza. Oh and I like
to be under on sixty one.
Speaker 4 (22:52):
I will do no such thing. I will not eat
that pizza. I will turn that pizza into more pizza.
And I might be crazy on this one, and I
might be providing the most possible bullet and board material
across the board, but I'm gonna go for it.
Speaker 5 (23:05):
Which is I.
Speaker 4 (23:07):
Actually find positives out of Northeasterns.
Speaker 5 (23:12):
Win to Lowell, you lose the three to one game.
Speaker 4 (23:15):
Played reasonably well before the bean Pot, even though they
lost some games. I know they lost to Merrimack that
was a four to three loss. Barramax been pretty good
Hockey East play. They're right in the They're right up
round fifth, which I know that when you look at
the pairwise and you look at where Merrimack stands, you're like,
how the heck is Merrimax in fifth? That to me
is when you lose a one goal game, you're losing
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a one goowl game to a team that is in
that tier that you're chasing down or trying that you're
likely going to face in the first round of the
Hockey East Playoffs.
Speaker 5 (23:45):
It took two from Vermont.
Speaker 4 (23:47):
Boston University is a clear step up from those teams
like BU up.
Speaker 5 (23:52):
Until they lost to Providence.
Speaker 4 (23:53):
I think I said they were playing the best hockey
in the country, and then they lost to Providence, but
they game of six in that and for all of
the confidence, that was the first time that I thought
to myself, maybe there is still that semblance of you
get the right goal at the right time, similar to
the bean Pot Championship, which was BC needed to get
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the second goal in that first period when they were
pounding away at Bu's goal and they didn't get the
second goal. So I think there is a path, and
I think there is a direct line that if Northeastern
can find its way into an early goal that you
Gorov has had given up over his first couple of states,
given up early goals.
Speaker 5 (24:33):
I don't remember what.
Speaker 4 (24:34):
Happened last week against Providence, but I know he gave
up an early goal in the bean Pot.
Speaker 5 (24:37):
Now we gave up the early one to BC.
Speaker 4 (24:39):
I know we'd given up some early ones or play
worse in the first part of the game. There's going
to be an opening for you to regain your confidence
and regain some juice. And I also think that it's
just one of those things that, given the odds, if
we're making it the pizza bet and we're saying, throw
it down and see what happens. Look, I've seen the
other night in the NBA the the Hornets at plus
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five hundred or whatever beat the Lakers. It can happen.
And I'm saying that if you don't mind losing the money,
turn your pizza into more pizza. That is what this
name of the game is all about. Have some fun
with it, roof for the underdog. Why not have some fun,
go with it, go for it.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
Sometimes, isn't the advice we're supposed to give here, just
supposed to be actually fact based and not have some fun.
Speaker 4 (25:25):
You know what, if you can't have fun with this
on that last one, what do you do?
Speaker 5 (25:31):
You know what? Sometimes it's just sometimes it's just nice.
Speaker 4 (25:34):
If you have the big enough bankroll, you don't mind
taking the pizza money and flushing it. If yeah, and
I'm talking like, if you've got the bankroll to do
that's like, if you're playing with twenty five dollars, you're
not in your bankroll and you're putting in dollar bets,
don't put twenty bucks down on your pizza money bet.
But if you've got the bankroll and you've got the
you've got the mojo and the juice in your account,
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you're already up over one hundred bucks. You're up over
two hundred and fifty bucks on the season. Whatever it is,
roll with it, just go even if you're up with
the higher you go, throw that beat lover down on
Northeastern and roots for the Huskies.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
I have a feeling Dan is gonna ask me to
venmo him twenty bucks for a pizza.
Speaker 4 (26:13):
If Northeastern wins on Friday, I will be texting both
of you a picture of two extra large pizzas in
my house.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
What's the rest of the family going to eat?
Speaker 5 (26:24):
That's a good point. I know I could devour two
of them.
Speaker 4 (26:27):
Oh. I found the right pizza shop around my house too,
which it means I finally found the place that can
give me like the puddled up grease and the proper
pie finally got one, which means that I'm with no
home game for me this weekend. I'm gonna be I'm
gonna be fired up to watch some hockey and just
the scene when an Animal House, when Belushi dumps the
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mustard on his chest, It's basically going.
Speaker 5 (26:50):
To be me with pizza grease.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
The picture.
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I'm Ed Trevsker along with Jim Connolly and Dan Rubin.
The first game on our docket has a big ten
matchup Ohio State at Minnesota. Ohio State's the underdog on
the road at plus one seventy Minnesota favorite at home
at minus two. Twenty over under on this game is
five and a half. Before I turn it over to you, guys,
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you got to admit the Buckeyes are one of the
hottest teams in the country this month and since the
first of the year.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Yeah, that's actually what implementing my pick this week. I
don't have a lot of underdogs picked this week. I
do have Ohio State. Do I think that there's a
chance that they'll have a tough time in Minnesota at Mariuchi, certainly,
But I like Ohio State. They have played some great hockey.
They're not giving up a lot of goals right now.
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They're a tough team to play against. I like the
I do the over here, though, I feel like this
is at five and a half and this one shade's
a little bit toward the over.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
I still think it's going to go.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
You're probably going to see a five three, five two,
four to three type of game. Is there a chance
you lose that over bet with a fourth to two?
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Yes.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
I look at this, and I'm looking at it through
the lens of the fact that Ohio State in Minnesota,
whoever wins this series, still has a legitimate shot at
Michigan State in the Big Ten regular season championship, and
if you you're really in the driver's seat for the
top spot in the postseason tournament. Given what I'm looking
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at in terms of value on the bet, even though
Minnesota is sitting at minus two twenty, Ohio State has
done enough to tie Minnesota in the standings, and depending
on who wins this game, if Ohio State wins it,
I think the percentage goes up to a seventy percent
likelihood of finishing second. If you lose, it drops down
to about thirty, you're sitting in about a fifty to
fifty shot of hitting second.
Speaker 5 (02:28):
Versus third, with an open door to reach up into
first place.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
That said, when you're looking at a gambling odds, the
fact that Ohio State is plus one seventy, I think
is a lot of respect to Minnesota at home. But
there is a ton of value on the fact that
Ohio State is just as equal to Minnesota in the standings.
Speaker 5 (02:52):
I'll even go so far as.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
To say in the statistics they both score out the
same per game, they both allow out the same. I
want to say that Ohio State is a little better
and back than Minnesota is, but Minnesota is a little
better up front than Ohio State is. But since it's negligible,
then you look at the odds and there it is
plus one seventy. That's an absurd number for Ohio State.
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The way the fuck guys are playing right now.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
These two teams already played once and that was a split.
Both teams routed one another a six to one decision
one way, a five to one decision the other way.
So I don't feel like we learned a lot from
the first meeting between these teams, except for the fact
that there'll be goals. That expect some goals in these games.
I don't expect both teams. I don't expect both teams
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to score low. That's why I'm saying God with the over.
But I even expect both teams to probably hit three
goals in this game. It just feels that these two
teams can get up and down the ice.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
I look at the differences in them.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
I think it's if you look at just conference play,
Minnesota barely has a slight edge. If you look at
the overall, I think you can say that Minnesota has
a bigger edge when you look at the overall in
terms of goals allowed versus goals scored. But I still
look at this as a coin flip. So seeing the
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plus one seventy for Ohio State, if I was betting this,
there's no way I could stay away from that one.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Well, let's go to another Big Ten game. Penn State
is at Michigan State. Now Penn State. We had written
them off on our podcast at semester break. They were
zero to eight in the Big Ten. Since then, seven
two and three, and of the two ties they won
or of the three ties they've won two of the shootouts.
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Penn State maybe even hotter right now than Ohio State.
They're the road underdog plus two twenty. Michigan State is
minus two ninety eight at home over under six and
a half.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Yeah, I don't light the numbers here at all. The
minus two ninety eight or mission against State is very high,
takes all value away, and I don't see Penn State
pulling off a win here on the road. So I'm
in the stay away mode. You're not getting the value
off Michigan State that you would need. I do look
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at this as another one where the over probably hits.
The last time these two teams played, one game had
ten goals scored. The other game had two four goals scored,
So the over under six and a half kind of
right in the middle of that. I still think that
I just have a hard time betting unders in general.
I guess I would probably go with the over and
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not feel very secure with it this whole game.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
If I were to bet it, I wouldn't feel very
secure with my money.
Speaker 5 (05:43):
State at this point.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
One of the things that I don't want to say
frustrates me about the system that we live in with
college hockey.
Speaker 5 (05:49):
Everyone knows that I have a little bit of.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
Issues with juking the mats so to speak, is that
Penn State is still very much alive for an at
large bit and if they win a game this weekend,
that is a really big deal because they get the
bonus credit for winning on the road, and they're be
and they would be beating a team that is essentially
the number one to number two in the pairwise number
one in the country and the like. That would do
wonders to get them closer to the cut line, which
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is going to be I think we've we fell on
thirteen is going to be the thirteen In between thirteen
and fourteen is the cut line. So for Penn State
sitting around the sixteen seventeen mark, these are steak, big games.
Speaker 5 (06:25):
That said, my issue with Penn State is that.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
They're I don't like using Look, you got to play
the big boy hockey right now, like you got to
step up in a game in the Big ten where
everybody's good.
Speaker 5 (06:36):
But if you look at who.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
They've beaten over the past couple of months, they did
not They beat Ohio State, but required and overtime. They
beat Ohio State in the shootout. It was a six
to six game they split with Michigan. The rest of
the games have been against Wisconsin and Notre Dame. And
so for me, the games that are really going to
set Penn State apart and make or break the season
for them is the Michigan State game in the Minnesota game,
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which is who they end the season with. So playing
at Michigan State this weekend for me is the wait
and see. If they win games this weekend, you're gonna
get less value next weekend.
Speaker 5 (07:11):
But I'll probably like them for one game against Minnesota.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
But I don't like them right now that if we
were talking about this as a pizza bet, maybe I
might say, yeah, throw whatever down on Penn State and
don't be afraid to lose it.
Speaker 5 (07:25):
Who cares, it's your pizza money.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
But there's just not enough on what Penn State has
won to get to the bubble that to me indicates
that they would go into Lansing and beat Michigan State,
which is playing it playing itself into probably the hottest team.
Speaker 5 (07:46):
Right now in the country. Right Are they the number
one team?
Speaker 3 (07:50):
No?
Speaker 5 (07:51):
But I really like.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
What I've been seeing out of Michigan State, and I'm
not I'm not with Penn State on this one, I
do like the over because I think everybody's gonna score.
Speaker 5 (08:00):
It's the Big Ten. Everybody scores goals.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Yeah, a lot concerns me about just Penn State and
Big Ten play. They're negative ten in terms of gold differential,
but they are plus thirteen overall in gold differentials. They
really get that. They lose a lot when it comes
to Big Ten play as opposed to their non conference play.
They're a plus twenty three and non conference play at
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minus ten. In Big Ten plays, they're struggling at times.
But as you said, Ed, and I think this is
the big highlight here is they are playing their best
hockey of the season right now. I still don't think
that I'm willing to put money behind the fact that
they're going to pull out a victory in Lancing on
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Friday night, but I do think that there's some certainly
some merit to looking at Penn State in this matchup.
Speaker 5 (08:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
My one counterpoint, just the last point on Michigan State
is that they did lose a couple games along the way.
I know, I say they're one of the hottest teams,
they do have losses, but I tend to chalk up
a game a lost to Michigan as being a rivalry
game where anything can happen and something weird might happen.
And I don't chalk up the lost to Ohio State
as being it was on the road. I look, we're
playing this game in Lansing and that I just don't
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see it for Penn State right now. And I think
I'm with you there though. That said, like I said,
if you want that as your pizza bet, then go
for it. But I think there's a better pizza bet
out there, which we'll discuss later.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Let's turn to the NCCHC. It's a battle for the
top of the league's standings. Western Michigan can pull away,
Arizona State can cut it close if there's a sweep,
And for Western Michigan they are point zero zero zero
three behind Maine and the RPI is they look to
get into the top four in the pairwise and maybe
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be a number one seed in a regional. But this
one has Arizona State a home underdog at plus one twenty.
Western Michigan is minus one fifty four over under on
this one seems really good to me. At six and
a half.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
I agree there, ed, I like the over under If
I had a choice, I'd go under here.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
I'll just start with that.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
I've been saying that I'm not betting against Arizona State
till they give me a reason.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
They're at home.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
I know Western is the best team probably in the NCCHC,
but I still like Arizona State. They've played so well
at home. They get a nice emotional boost every time
they're in Mullet. So I like Arizona State here. Just
this one doesn't even have a lot of analytics of
stats behind in my opinion. I just I've liked Arizona
State for a while now, and I'm not going to
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change now.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
This is where I come back to my home underdog theory,
which is that that is that I think this is
a very evenly matched game, and I think that that
making Western Michigan the favorite makes a whole lot of sense.
Western Michigan, I think even if they lose both games
this weekend, I think still has a ninety three percent
chance of winning the league. It's there. If they win,
I'm pretty sure they clinch it. I'm pretty sure if
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they sweep the weekend, it's over. They're your regular season champions.
They think Western Michigan is probably the best team in
college hockey that we're not really talking about still, Like
we still talk about Michigan State, talk about Boston College,
talk about Maine. Denver is a defending national champion, usually
works its way into the conversation Minnesota.
Speaker 5 (11:23):
No one's really talking about Western Michigan.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
And that's a crime, in my mind, one of those
sports crimes where we should be talking more about them.
But at minus one fifty four going on the road
to Arizona State, you've lost some of your value in
the bet to a team that is playing incredibly well
right now. And like you said, you want to ride
some of these teams while they're still until they give
you a reason not to. Arizona State is in that
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mode where it's an underdog at home. You're not really
gonna find a whole lot of home underdog status in
the desert for Arizona State.
Speaker 5 (11:58):
Western Michigan gives you that. I would have.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
Actually put this more as a if these would have
been my odds if this were in cowl Mazoo, like
I would have made a plus one twenty on Arizona State.
Speaker 5 (12:10):
I would have made this one.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
Coming back to Arizona maybe more close to a dead split,
like a minus one oh five minus one ten, But hey,
go with the sun Devils. I actually don't hate the
under here either. At six and a half, I just
I feel like that's a high number to get to.
Speaker 5 (12:26):
I just don't. I think that's a I think that's
a tough number to reach.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
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We're back with usccho edge Maine at Yukon. Yukon got
four out of six points up at Alphon just about
a month ago, and Yukon has been playing pretty well.
Speaker 5 (13:30):
Maine in the top four.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Look we mentioned in the pairwise five and a half
is the over under in this single game this weekend
on Friday, Maine is the favorite at minus one sixty.
Yukon is plus one twenty four at home.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
I think if I just blindly bet this one without
having a lot of background on the two teams, I
play Yukon home underdog. They're pretty evenly matched when you
look at a lot of their stats, but then you
really think about it. In Alvin boya Is he might
win the Microrector Award this year. He's possibly the best
goaltender in the country. He is winning games for Maine
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and win. Maine puts the puck in the net like
they did last last Saturday night in the third period
against New Hampshire. When they score, you can't beat them
because they're not giving up more than two a game
right now.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
That's the cap on them. So as long as they
get their three goals that they're a winner.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
So I see them finding a way to score three
on Yukon, and I expect Alvin Boyer to keep this
one low scoring. That's why I like the under here,
despite the fact that the under is shaded minus one
forty five under five. I'm basically betting on three goals,
four goals, or five goals here.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
I see that happening.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
Agree, and it's only because I don't think you're going
to get three goals against Boya or four goals against
Boya to hit a four to two win or.
Speaker 5 (14:55):
Something like that.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
I don't mind taking Yukon with the home underdog status
and the plus one twenty four. I do think Maine
is significantly better and is probably going to wind up
in that number one seed conversation before the year is over.
I do think Yukon because Yukon also is playing for
I believe a first round by it coming down the
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end of the season, and there's a lot of teams
shammed up in Hockey East in general around that last
by spot.
Speaker 5 (15:25):
And the one thing that I think.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
Makes Yukon dangerous towards that buy is because nobody really
wants to play the extra game and lose it and
cost yourself a potential bad loss. In the pairwise or
anything like that. With the potential two seed on the
line for Connecticut. So I think being able to play
at home against Maine, the fact that it's in Connecticut,
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I know that Maine is playing exceptional. Yukon seems to
have straightened itself out after starting what is an end
of season, second half month long stand where they started
with a couple of losses. They've seen they've used the
right opponents to straighten themselves out. One thing that I'll
throw in here is that it's actually not easy.
Speaker 5 (16:09):
And I said this elsewhere. I've said this to a
couple of people.
Speaker 4 (16:13):
It's not easy to play at home for that long,
to play seven or eight games at home, directly because
you can't escape it, like you don't have that road trip,
that bus ride to escape if something starts going wrong.
They've done a really good job of bouncing back. And
I think that's probably why I like Connecticut in this one.
Plus is the home underdog status. I just shade towards
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the value there. Do I think they're gonna win. It's
really hard, But in terms of a bet and in
terms of an odds, I tend to look at this
one and go Hey, look, minus one sixty on Maine
kind of zap some of the value away from it.
This were closer to a one to twenty, i'd go
with it. But you're not going to get minus one
twenty on me. That's just not happening. That's where there's
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a little bit extra value on Connecticut.
Speaker 5 (16:57):
This one.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
I might actually stay away from it all together, but
if you going to bet it, I might lead into
Yukon for one game this week.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Let's go elsewhere. In Hockey East U Mass is at
New Hampshire. They'll go to Amherst on Saturday in the
home and home. U Mass coming off a split with
BC last weekend and they're number thirteen in the pair wise,
right on the edge. Their soft non conference schedule hasn't
helped them. New Hampshire really, the wheels have come off
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since the first of the year for them. Five and
a half is the over under you. Mass is a
slight favorite at minus one thirty in New Hampshire is
at home a plus one hundred.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
This is a tough one for me when we think
about this series. We're two weeks away from being removed
from both of these teams being the pairwise bubble. In
those two weeks, U mass moved themselves up. Obviously, the
win over Boston College on the road helped them significantly.
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You and Ah, they've moved themselves down and made it
so that they put much have to win the Hockey
East tournament. I think they have NCAA expectations. This is
a team that was right there in the picture not
too long ago. Because of that, I just I feel
like you when age is heading the wrong way and
they're finding unfortunately, they're finding ways to lose games. And
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anybody that knows me knows that Mike Suis is one
of my favorite coaches out there, especially in Hockey East.
He's a great guy, good friend. His team's just finding
ways to lose games right now. They've had third period
leads and four straight games and come out without a
single win in those four. I also like the under here.
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Neither of these teams put up a ton of goals.
It actually shades toward the under minus one twenty five.
So I guess I should be surprised that I'm stuck
on this under here. But give me you massive minus
one thirty, give me the under of minus one twenty five.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
That's a nice little parlay if you can hit both legs.
Speaker 4 (18:55):
Yeah, I agree. I don't love what's happened with you.
UNH is same as it's been across the board. The
one thing about U MASS is U MASS played itself
into the inside of the bubble by beating Boston College
last week because they also won the game on the road.
So winning that game at Connie Forum moves them up
to the twelve or thirteen spot, and now they're in
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a situation where they have inside control a bit as
long as they don't off the table and get passed
by other teams.
Speaker 5 (19:24):
The two games against Maine later on in the at
the end of.
Speaker 4 (19:27):
The year hopefully will not really cost you MASS if
they can handle business against UNH and against Bowl next week.
The biggest thing for me is going on the road,
which I which I'll always say, Hey, that buys you
a little bit in the value, But I don't see
enough on UNH given everything that's been going on. If
you're plugging this into a computer, you're going to get
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more of an evenly matched up game because of the
numbers line up, the fact that they're close in the
pair wise. But when you start to factor out and
start to see what's happened over the last month.
Speaker 5 (20:00):
I just don't like UNH.
Speaker 4 (20:01):
The one thing that's interesting about this game is if
U MASS wins or if you MASS even sweeps, UNH
doesn't actually really help them towards getting up into that
next tier in Hockey East. To play into that next
I think they're still likely to finish sixth or seventh
if that happens. Even if UNH sweeps at this point,
they're still likely to finish sixty seven percent chance of
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finishing in eleven. So outside of all of that, when
you factor all of that in, you take all those
outside other factors, you start looking for an edge. It's
just not there for you and H. The one thing
about the old under is also there hasn't been a
whole lot of goal scoring between these teams. So if
you're gonna get a two one game, I think even
getting to five drugs, it could be a struggle for
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these two teams.
Speaker 5 (20:46):
And that's just because.
Speaker 4 (20:47):
UMass is geared towards its back line and UNH just
has them there.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Our pizza money bet the game that you put money
on if you're willing to give up that twenty dollars
pizza is Northeastern at Boston University, first of only two
games they'll play in Hockey East this year. It's a
home and home series at BU on Friday. Six and
a half is the over under. Northeastern is a heavy
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underdog at plus two twenty and Boston University, of course
heavily favored at home and minus two ninety eight. And
as we look at this, I've got to think that
Boston University is like a totally different team since they
added Mikile you go Off.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
I think they're more confident. When you look at his record,
it's decent. What supports I think you go off is
his actual stats, So the win loss put that aside.
He's lost in low scoring games too. His numbers are phenomenal,
great save percent, great goals against staffords. Right now, Northeastern
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just doesn't feel like they have things in.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
The right direction. Yes.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
Did they get a win against Lowell last Friday on
the road to two nothings shutout, Yes, and that was
a good thing. They held Lowell to just a couple
of goals the next nine right, losing three to one
with an empty netter. But this Northeastern team has not
really been playing well since a win over Quinnipiac on
the road on January fourth. That's a long time ago.
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There's been signs that this team is good and we'll
get better at times this year.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
But I'm just not there on them right now.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
Even with the great odds, the plus two to twenty,
it's not that different. It's exactly the same as Penn State.
I wasn't touching Penn State against Michigan State. I'm not
touching Northeastern at Boston University right now.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
Save the money, eat the pizza. Oh and I like
to be under on sixty one.
Speaker 4 (22:52):
I will do no such thing. I will not eat
that pizza. I will turn that pizza into more pizza.
And I might be crazy on this one, and I
might be providing the most possible bullet and board material
across the board, but I'm gonna go for it.
Speaker 5 (23:05):
Which is I.
Speaker 4 (23:07):
Actually find positives out of Northeasterns.
Speaker 5 (23:12):
Win to Lowell, you lose the three to one game.
Speaker 4 (23:15):
Played reasonably well before the bean Pot, even though they
lost some games. I know they lost to Merrimack that
was a four to three loss. Barramax been pretty good
Hockey East play. They're right in the They're right up
round fifth, which I know that when you look at
the pairwise and you look at where Merrimack stands, you're like,
how the heck is Merrimax in fifth? That to me
is when you lose a one goal game, you're losing
(23:37):
a one goowl game to a team that is in
that tier that you're chasing down or trying that you're
likely going to face in the first round of the
Hockey East Playoffs.
Speaker 5 (23:45):
It took two from Vermont.
Speaker 4 (23:47):
Boston University is a clear step up from those teams
like BU up.
Speaker 5 (23:52):
Until they lost to Providence.
Speaker 4 (23:53):
I think I said they were playing the best hockey
in the country, and then they lost to Providence, but
they game of six in that and for all of
the confidence, that was the first time that I thought
to myself, maybe there is still that semblance of you
get the right goal at the right time, similar to
the bean Pot Championship, which was BC needed to get
(24:14):
the second goal in that first period when they were
pounding away at Bu's goal and they didn't get the
second goal. So I think there is a path, and
I think there is a direct line that if Northeastern
can find its way into an early goal that you
Gorov has had given up over his first couple of states,
given up early goals.
Speaker 5 (24:33):
I don't remember what.
Speaker 4 (24:34):
Happened last week against Providence, but I know he gave
up an early goal in the bean Pot.
Speaker 5 (24:37):
Now we gave up the early one to BC.
Speaker 4 (24:39):
I know we'd given up some early ones or play
worse in the first part of the game. There's going
to be an opening for you to regain your confidence
and regain some juice. And I also think that it's
just one of those things that, given the odds, if
we're making it the pizza bet and we're saying, throw
it down and see what happens. Look, I've seen the
other night in the NBA the the Hornets at plus
(25:01):
five hundred or whatever beat the Lakers. It can happen.
And I'm saying that if you don't mind losing the money,
turn your pizza into more pizza. That is what this
name of the game is all about. Have some fun
with it, roof for the underdog. Why not have some fun,
go with it, go for it.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
Sometimes, isn't the advice we're supposed to give here, just
supposed to be actually fact based and not have some fun.
Speaker 4 (25:25):
You know what, if you can't have fun with this
on that last one, what do you do?
Speaker 5 (25:31):
You know what? Sometimes it's just sometimes it's just nice.
Speaker 4 (25:34):
If you have the big enough bankroll, you don't mind
taking the pizza money and flushing it. If yeah, and
I'm talking like, if you've got the bankroll to do
that's like, if you're playing with twenty five dollars, you're
not in your bankroll and you're putting in dollar bets,
don't put twenty bucks down on your pizza money bet.
But if you've got the bankroll and you've got the
you've got the mojo and the juice in your account,
(25:55):
you're already up over one hundred bucks. You're up over
two hundred and fifty bucks on the season. Whatever it is,
roll with it, just go even if you're up with
the higher you go, throw that beat lover down on
Northeastern and roots for the Huskies.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
I have a feeling Dan is gonna ask me to
venmo him twenty bucks for a pizza.
Speaker 4 (26:13):
If Northeastern wins on Friday, I will be texting both
of you a picture of two extra large pizzas in
my house.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
What's the rest of the family going to eat?
Speaker 5 (26:24):
That's a good point. I know I could devour two
of them.
Speaker 4 (26:27):
Oh. I found the right pizza shop around my house too,
which it means I finally found the place that can
give me like the puddled up grease and the proper
pie finally got one, which means that I'm with no
home game for me this weekend. I'm gonna be I'm
gonna be fired up to watch some hockey and just
the scene when an Animal House, when Belushi dumps the
(26:48):
mustard on his chest, It's basically going.
Speaker 5 (26:50):
To be me with pizza grease.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
The picture.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
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