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Penguins aim for fifth straight win in clash with hosting 'CanesHockey Betting Lines03/11/2010 - (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Pittsburgh Penguins will try to stay perfect since returning from the Olympic break when they visit the Carolina Hurricanes tonight at RBC Center. The Penguins are 4-0 since the league came back from the Winter Games. The surge has helped Pittsburgh stay atop the Atlantic Division, which it leads by three points over New Jersey. Pittsburgh is playing its first game since beating visiting Boston on Sunday. Evgeni Malkin scored early in the third period to lift the Penguins to the 2-1 victory at Mellon Arena. Pascal Dupuis also tallied for the Penguins and goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury made 21 saves. However, the game will be most remembered for a blindside hit by Pittsburgh's Matt Cooke on Boston star forward Marc Savard. Cooke caught an unsuspecting Savard in the head with a shoulder moments after he released a shot from the high slot. Savard lay motionless for several minutes while being attended to by the medical staff. He was eventually taken off the ice on a stretcher. No penalty was called on the play and the league announced Wednesday that Cooke would not be suspended. However, partially as a result of the Cooke hit, the NHL proposed a rule change that would penalize a "blindside hit to an opponent where the head is targeted." The potential ban was revealed Wednesday at the conclusion of the NHL GM meetings in Boca Raton. The Pens are kicking off a five-game road trip tonight. Pittsburgh is 19-12-1 as the visiting team this season, matching Washington for the most road wins in the conference. Carolina is coming off Wednesday's close loss in Washington. Tomas Fleischmann scored with 1:40 remaining in overtime to lift the Capitals to a 4-3 victory over the Hurricanes at Verizon Center. In the extra session, Fleischmann hammered a Eric Belanger feed past Carolina goaltender Manny Legace, who made 35 saves in a losing effort. Jussi Jokinen, Tuomo Ruutu and Patrick Dwyer each tallied for the Hurricanes, who have dropped two of their last three games after winning seven straight. "I thought we got better as the game went on," said Carolina head coach Paul Maurice. "We're trying to get as many points as we can. You can't walk away now without any." The Hurricanes are now eight points behind Boston for the final playoff spot. Tonight marks the start of a four-game homestand for the 'Canes, who have won seven straight on home ice. Carolina is 17-12-3 as the host this year. Pittsburgh has split a pair of games with the Hurricanes this year and has taken five of nine overall in the series. The Pens have two wins in their last three trips to Raleigh, but have also lost five of their last seven on the road against Carolina.
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Football Betting Sportsbook Accepts Credit CardsMichael Vick is back, Brett Favre isn't and the NFC East remains the best division in the NFC, maybe in all of football. As players start to gather for the start of another season, some things change and some stay the same in the world of the NFL. The NFC East has been the dominant division in the National Conference for a while, despite limited playoff success, save for the New York Giants surprise Super Bowl win two seasons ago. Hell, there's a generation of kids in Texas who have never seen the Cowboys win a playoff game (last win was in 1996). But collectively, the Giants, Eagles, Cowboys and Redskins (well, maybe not so much the Redskins) are as good as a division gets in an NFC conference that has struggled to stay competitive with the AFC side. Sports bettors have both acknowledged the NFC East's dominance, as one glance at the NFL future odds menu will show. Looking over the NFL betting odds at online sports book MySportsbook.com we see the top three teams listed to win the NFC Championship are all from the NFC East: Dallas Cowboys - 7 - 1 Philadelphia Eagles - 13 - 2 New York Giants - 9 - 2 Slotting in behind these three are two teams from the NFC North: the Minnesota Vikings (15-2) and the Chicago Bears (10-1). Again, despite the lack of recent playoff success, the Dallas Cowboys are popular with the sports betting community, as they hold 14% of all the money wagered on who will win the NFC Championship. So far, the New York Giants are the bettors' favorite to represent their conference in the Super Bowl, as they have 24% of the overall NFC Championship betting volume. And what about the Philadelphia Eagles? For the most part, the Eagles had a very productive offseason, the kind that could bring them back to the top. They had a good draft adding the likes of WR Jeremy Maclin and RB LeSean McCoy. Unfortunately, the team received a blow when long-time defensive coordinator Jim Johnson passed away on Tuesday. But this team will make a real run at the division title this year. Going into the regular season, Philly is listed at +240 to win the division. Last season the Eagles were 9-6-1 SU and 10-6 ATS. Teams from the NFC East will play teams from the AFC West in the regular season and the Eagles haven't really been a good bet in the last 20 games against the likes of San Diego, Oakland, K.C. and Denver, only going 8-12 ATS. Two seasons removed from that Super Bowl title, the New York Giants see themselves listed as the odds-on favorite in NFC East championship futures at +162. Plaxico Burress is gone and with him all the bad publicity surrounding the gun in the sweatpants incident, but can they replace him in the offense? Last season the Giants were a very reliable bet going 12-4 ATS. In the Giants' last 20 games against fellow teams from the NFC East; they are 13-7 ATS. Dallas is listed at +240 to win the division. Dallas went 9-7 SU and 7-9 ATS last season and with the amount of talent the Cowboys have, a similar performance won't do. The Cowboys have been atrocious against divisional rivals, going 6-14 ATS in their last 20. The Washington Redskins are longshots to win the division at +550. Visit MySportsbook.com for free sportsbook odds RSS feeds go to MySportsbook.com for all your betting football needs. |
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