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Rangers square off with Penguins in Atlantic Division clashHockey Betting Lines03/04/2010 - (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The New York Rangers started their current winning streak with a rare recent victory over the Pittsburgh Penguins. The Blueshirts will try to duplicate that feat when the two Atlantic Division rivals face off tonight at Madison Square Garden. New York ended a string of seven straight losses to the Penguins with a 3-2 overtime triumph in Pittsburgh on February 12, then followed up by downing Tampa Bay by a 5-2 count two days later in their final game before the Winter Olympic break. The Rangers kept up their strong play upon returning from the long respite, using a four-goal second period and a solid performance from goaltender Henrik Lundqvist to post a 4-1 victory at Northeast Division leader Ottawa on Tuesday. Ryan Callahan, fresh off earning a silver medal as a member of the United States squad in the Olympics, scored two of New York's goals to help support 24 saves from Lundqvist. Brandon Dubinsky and Sean Avery also lit the lamp for the Rangers, who enter tonight's play tied with Boston for the eighth and final playoff seed in the Eastern Conference. "We felt good after the break," said Callahan. "We tried not to have that mental letdown. New York prevailed despite leading scorer Marian Gaborik missing the contest with a lower-body injury he sustained while competing for Slovakia in the Vancouver games. The standout sniper is considered questionable to suit up for this evening's tilt. Pittsburgh followed last month's loss to the Rangers with a shootout setback to Nashville on February 14, but got its post-break schedule off to a good start with Tuesday's 3-2 decision over Buffalo in the Steel City. Goaltender Brent Johnson stopped 26-of-28 shots in the win, with Ruslan Fedotenko pacing the Penguins' offense with a goal and an assist. Sergei Gonchar and Pascal Dupuis also scored for Pittsburgh, while Evgeni Malkin had an assist to extend his point streak to 14 straight games. The Russian star has racked up eight goals and 15 assists during the tear and has notched a helper in each of his last eight outings. The win kept the Penguins one point behind New Jersey in the race for first place in the Atlantic standings. Pittsburgh made a couple of moves towards bolstering its chances for a division title in the past few days, acquiring both defenseman Jordan Leopold and forward Alexei Ponikarovsky prior to the trade deadline. The Penguins gave up defenseman Martin Skoula and prospect Luca Caputi for Ponikarovsky, who had 19 goals and 22 assists in 61 games for Toronto this season. The steady 29-year-old won't be able to make his Pittsburgh debut this evening, however, due to problems in obtaining a work visa in the United States. Leopold did play in Tuesday's game after coming over in a deal with Florida one day earlier. The Minnesota native had seven goals and 11 assists in 61 games for the Panthers. The Penguins have emerged victorious in each of their two previous trips to Madison Square Garden this season, but had lost eight in a row as the visitor in this series prior to those wins.
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(Sportsbook Betting Lines) - A Boston Bruins team that hasn't won in their home building in more than two months will host one of the NHL's worst road clubs in 2009-10 when the Toronto Maple Leafs head to TD Garden tonight for a Northeast Division clash.
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(Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Washington Capitals enter tonight's play with the best record in the NHL. The Stanley Cup contenders will also have a much different look when they return to the Verizon Center for this evening's clash with the Tampa Bay
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FOOTBALL BETTING LINESNFL Football Sports BettingTwo playoff teams from 2007 take center stage on the NFL Network Sunday night in a Week 2 NFL betting match-up when the (0-1) New England Patriots betting head south to Florida for a contest with the (1-0) Tampa Bay Buccaneers. New England HC Bill Belichick couldn’t care less about the way his team plays in the preseason. With a chance to tie last week’s game with the Baltimore Ravens betting, He elected to go for the two-point conversion and outright victory. The conversion failed, and the Pats ended up falling to the Ravens by a 16-15 final count. New England rolled off twelve unanswered points to give it a chance at securing the victory, but it never threatened to cover the 3.5-point spread. NFL bettors saw this one coming, as they bet the Ravens down from +6 to +3.5 as the week progressed. QB Tom Brady didn’t take part in the Patriots first preseason clash, but could see action this weekend. His three replacements all put up embarrassing numbers. They went a combined 17 for 33, and threw three interceptions and no touchdowns. The New England defense was encouraging, as they held the Ravens to 2/12 third down conversions and surrendered just ten first downs. That ‘D’ should be bolstered with the addition of former Bucs and Denver Broncos betting safety John Lynch, who could make his Patriots debut on Sunday against his former mates. HC Jon Gruden had to be impressed with the way his Bucs played on both sides of the ball in their dominating 17-6 victory over the Miami Dolphins in Week 1’s NFL pre-season betting action. Bucs bettors were quite happy with the effort, as they made a mockery of the fact that they were underdogs in the game. The logjam at the quarterback position didn’t get any easier to separate for Gruden, as all four of his QBs had positive experiences in the first exhibition of 2008. The four combined to complete 28 of their 40 passes for 204 yards and a touchdown, and that was without starting QB Jeff Garcia in the lineup. RB Michael Bennett had 19 carries and four receptions, totaling 90 yards and a touchdown. Expect to see more of Bennett, Kenneth Darby, and Earnest Graham, as they all compete for playing time with Warrick Dunn in the backfield this season. Defensively, the Bucs recorded four sacks and held the Fins offense in check all day. First round draft pick Aqib Talib was impressive in the secondary, recording a tackle and two pass defenses in his debut. Don’t be surprised to see Talib in the starting lineup opposite Ronde Barber for the Bucs in ’08. The betting trends suggest that NFL bettors should be backing the Bucs in this intra-conference exhibition. These two teams hooked up last year in Tampa Bay, with the Bucs winning that game 13-10. The Buccaneers have only lost one preseason game at home dating back to the beginning of the ’05 preseason. The Patriots have had a mixed bag of results in their recent exhibitions. They have gone 2-2 ATS and SU each of the last three years. New England currently sits as modest 1-point favorites in this preseason showdown with the ‘total’ now sitting at 34.5. You can find these lines and all of the NFL betting lines , so be sure to login and get your wagers down before kickoff! Note: Monday night game will be picked Monday. Lines used are from football betting lines .
What Is the Point Spread?What are Sports Betting Point Spreads?In any football or basketball game (the main sports that use point spreads) there are two teams playing against each other. Those teams, though, are rarely exactly evenly matched – meaning that typically one team has a better chance than the other to win the game. If bettors were allowed to bet on who was simply going to win the game, smart ones would obviously bet on the better team (likely winning more than 50% of the time in the process). If winning were that easy the Las Vegas and online sportsbooks would stop taking any bets! This is where the point spread comes in: the basic function of the point spread is to balance the likelihood of each team “winning” by adjusting the final score by the point spread. After this adjustment is made you get the Against The Spread result (ATS result for short). Let’s look at Super Bowl XXXIX, New England Patriots vs. Philadelphia Eagles. Most people believed the defending champ Patriots to be the better team – so if betting were simply based upon which team would win the game, an uneven majority of people would have wagered on New England. But, by using the point spread, the bookmakers adjusted the terms of the bet, evening the proposition so about half the people believed the Pats to be the smart bet, while the other half considered Philly to be the smart bet. How to Read Point SpreadsNew England Patriots -7 vs. Philadelphia Eagles The better team, called the Favorite, is expected to win the game and must “give” or “lay” points to the weaker team. The favorite is listed with a minus sign and the number of points they are favored by (e.g., New England -7) In the case of our example, New England must not only win the game, but they must win by more than 7 points for Pats bettors to have a winning ATS result. An Eagles bettor wins his bet either if:
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