Starting to hate hockey u/o's

[zee]

Seriously, the complete randomness going on in the third period of most games is reminding me more and more of the 4th quarter in NBA. It's almost as if it has become 2 periods of skating, one period of actual play sport.

<table class="yspwhitebg" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tbody><tr class="yspsctbg" align="right"><td colspan="2" class="ysptblhdr" align="left" height="18"> Scoring Summary</td> <td class="ysptblhdr" width="18%"> </td> </tr> <tr class="ysptblthbody2"> <td colspan="3" class="yspdetailttl" height="18"> 1st Period</td> </tr> <tr><td colspan="3" valign="top"> None</td></tr> <tr class="ysptblthbody2"> <td colspan="3" class="yspdetailttl" height="18"> 2nd Period</td> </tr> <tr><td valign="top" width="20%"> NY Islanders</td><td width="75%">0:59, Mike York 10 (Trent Hunter, Chris Campoli)</td><td> </td></tr> <tr><td valign="top" width="20%"> Boston</td><td width="75%">6:24, Patrice Bergeron 15 (Marco Sturm)</td><td> </td></tr> <tr class="ysptblthbody2"> <td colspan="3" class="yspdetailttl" height="18"> 3rd Period</td> </tr> <tr><td valign="top" width="20%"> NY Islanders</td><td width="75%">0:44, Trent Hunter 10 (Chris Campoli, Mike York)</td><td> </td></tr> <tr><td valign="top" width="20%"> Boston</td><td width="75%">4:20, P.J. Axelsson 10 (power play) (Brad Stuart, Sergei Samsonov)</td><td> </td></tr> <tr><td valign="top" width="20%"> Boston</td><td width="75%">6:35, Brad Boyes 13 (Patrice Bergeron, Brad Stuart)</td><td> </td></tr> <tr><td valign="top" width="20%"> NY Islanders</td><td width="75%">8:49, Alexei Zhitnik 5 (Mike York, Trent Hunter)</td><td> </td></tr> <tr><td valign="top" width="20%"> NY Islanders</td><td width="75%">9:09, Mark Parrish 19 (Shawn Bates)</td><td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td height="7">
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[LarryTalbot]

have you experienced a loss on the under due to an empty netter? Those hurt the most because it just can't be capped.

 

[zee]

Mate, are you kidding me?
THAT:

http://sports.yahoo.com/nhl/boxscore?gid=2005101308

Is my worst loss on hockey ever, and is easy top 10 bad beat of all time for me. 5 goals in the third period, 4 goals in the LAST 6 minutes, 2(TWO) empty netters in the last 50 seconds. LA playing empty net @ 4:2, with 20 secs to go.
I was bitching for a week after that game.

PS: Was on u6.5

 

[Maniac]

Similar thing happened in the Mon/Tor, 2-1 with 8 mins to go and 4-3 after OT. had already crossed off my Over 6.5 but the Ed Belfour factor strikes again

 

[corporeal]

belfour wasn't playing...

 

[james369]

the way the nhl is now i dont even know how you can ever bet a under

 

[heatohio]

I avoid this by simply not playing the o/u. I find it way too hard to predict, where the winner is fairly easy to predict. Unlike in the nfl or the nba, 9 times out of ten a really good team will beat the really bad team. Now that there are no ties every line is +/- 1.5 goals. If you have two evenly matched teams, you pick the underdog, you almost never lose. Why waist money guessing what the teams might score? I say go for the easy win. And never take the -1.5 on the good team, just take the ML. If your payouts are less than your chances are much better, greed is what takes the gambler down.