Dallas Stars -.5 +114
Everything looks good on this card but unfortunately everything that looks good is at least a buck fifty favorite. I’m so considering the Pens total of 6??? What do they think this is the second All-Star game of the year? But of course that number is still too low for this team as the Islanders will win and win big. So why don’t I take N.Y. -2 goals on Olympic??? Why not parlay the Islanders with the Sabres with the Red Wings with the Avalanche with the over on Pittsburgh????? SHIT everything looks so easy here!!!!
I tell myself to calm down…serenity now…serenity now…breath deep…in with the good air …out with the bad…..Ahhhhhhhh……mmmmmaybe if I round robin the ½ goal with the….STOP!!!!!!!!
After much internal debate and deep breathing exercises I’ve narrowed down my seventeen selections to one. ……And it smells like victory.
Huge game in L.A. that has large playoff implications. Both these teams are battling for the last spot in the western conference with St. Louis and Nashville with a mere two points separating them all.
But to me it comes down to one thing . Dallas is rounding into form after a long season of under achieving while Los Angeles is starting to show the wear of a team that has had over 440 games lost to injuries from a superstar collection of players. They have played hard and you have to give them a world of credit but sooner or later the house of cards will fall.
Dallas has zero injuries. L.A. tonight lists ten players on the I.R. including Jason Allison, Martin Straka, Ziggy Palffy and lost for the season is Adam Deadmarsh.
The Kings are winless in their last four and come back home after a seven game road trip that sandwiched the All-Star break. (First home game in almost three weeks)
Dallas plays their last game of a three game trip in which they have already lost the first two. Before those two loses Dallas was putting things together without a loss in the eight prior. Playing to a tie against Detroit, the Islanders, beating Ottawa, San Jose and the Blues twice. To me losing those two games only sets this game up for a maximum effort by the Stars and a playoff type of atmosphere. This game has great meaning to them and when you look at these two rosters I have to believe that the Stars are simply the better of the two.
So with great restraint I offer this humble selection. It may not be a flashy choice or as exciting as a round robin but to me it’s like the smell of Napalm in the morning …it smells like victory.
NHL single unit plays…………. 58-41-4 + 16.42
Unit and a half plays……………. 5-0-0 + 8.1
NHL total to Date…………….. 63-41-4 + 24.52
Everything looks good on this card but unfortunately everything that looks good is at least a buck fifty favorite. I’m so considering the Pens total of 6??? What do they think this is the second All-Star game of the year? But of course that number is still too low for this team as the Islanders will win and win big. So why don’t I take N.Y. -2 goals on Olympic??? Why not parlay the Islanders with the Sabres with the Red Wings with the Avalanche with the over on Pittsburgh????? SHIT everything looks so easy here!!!!
I tell myself to calm down…serenity now…serenity now…breath deep…in with the good air …out with the bad…..Ahhhhhhhh……mmmmmaybe if I round robin the ½ goal with the….STOP!!!!!!!!
After much internal debate and deep breathing exercises I’ve narrowed down my seventeen selections to one. ……And it smells like victory.
Huge game in L.A. that has large playoff implications. Both these teams are battling for the last spot in the western conference with St. Louis and Nashville with a mere two points separating them all.
But to me it comes down to one thing . Dallas is rounding into form after a long season of under achieving while Los Angeles is starting to show the wear of a team that has had over 440 games lost to injuries from a superstar collection of players. They have played hard and you have to give them a world of credit but sooner or later the house of cards will fall.
Dallas has zero injuries. L.A. tonight lists ten players on the I.R. including Jason Allison, Martin Straka, Ziggy Palffy and lost for the season is Adam Deadmarsh.
The Kings are winless in their last four and come back home after a seven game road trip that sandwiched the All-Star break. (First home game in almost three weeks)
Dallas plays their last game of a three game trip in which they have already lost the first two. Before those two loses Dallas was putting things together without a loss in the eight prior. Playing to a tie against Detroit, the Islanders, beating Ottawa, San Jose and the Blues twice. To me losing those two games only sets this game up for a maximum effort by the Stars and a playoff type of atmosphere. This game has great meaning to them and when you look at these two rosters I have to believe that the Stars are simply the better of the two.
So with great restraint I offer this humble selection. It may not be a flashy choice or as exciting as a round robin but to me it’s like the smell of Napalm in the morning …it smells like victory.
NHL single unit plays…………. 58-41-4 + 16.42
Unit and a half plays……………. 5-0-0 + 8.1
NHL total to Date…………….. 63-41-4 + 24.52
