Sports Betting

Monday, March 20, 2006

NHL Betting

NHL Hockey Handicapping
Sabres Proving To Be A Good BetIf you've wagered on the Buffalo Sabres consistently throughout the 2005/06 season you've probably earned yourself a nice chunk of change. In the last year before the NHL owners staged their lockout, the Sabres had a mediocre 37-34-7-4 record and finished out of the playoffs and in ninth place in the Eastern Conference. After losing both Miro Satan and Alexei Zhitnik from that 2003/04 team, the Sabres weren't expected to make a leap this season. That assumption has proven to be wrong, as Buffalo sits at 44-17-5 this season, just back of the Ottawa Senators in the Northeast Division and comfortably in fourth place in the Eastern Conference standings. So jumping on the Buffalo Sabres bandwagon and staying there since October has been profitable for bettors. The Sabres are 26-10 as the favored team this year, and a healthy 18-12 as the underdog. The UNDER bet has paid off in Buffalo games this year as well, as the defensively-sound Sabres have a 25-39-2 OU record through 66 games That sound defense, however, took a night off on Saturday, as the Sabres allowed goaltender Ryan Miller to get peppered with 48 shots in a 4-2 loss to division-leading Ottawa. Despite ending up on the wrong end of the score, Miller was named the game's first star, and Buffalo did come back from a 3-0 deficit to make the game interesting. The result against Ottawa, though, was an anomaly for Buffalo this month. The Sabres have played 10 games in March, and have picked up wins in eight of them. Their only two losses came against Ottawa on Saturday, and against the Atlanta Thrashers back on March 1. In that eight-game win streak, the Sabres outscored their opponents 41-23, potting an average of five goals per night and boosting their total OVER results. The Sabres play seven more games in the month of March, starting on Monday night against the Thrashers in Atlanta. Center Tim Connolly could return from his knee injury in time for that game, but center Jochen Hecht will be out of the Sabres' lineup for at least another week with his own knee woes. Also on tap around the National Hockey League on Monday night: Boston at the New York Rangers, Montreal at Washington, Tampa Bay at Florida, St. Louis at Nashville, Anaheim at Dallas, and Colorado at Los Angeles.
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