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12/20/2008 - Philadelphia, PA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Scott Hartnell had a hat trick and Antero Niittymaki finished the game with 47 saves as the Philadelphia Flyers crushed the Washington Capitals, 7-1, at the Wachovia Center.
Jeff Carter had two goals and two assists while Joffrey Lupul added a goal and three assists for the Flyers, who have won six of their last seven games.
Brooks Laich scored the lone goal for the Capitals, who had a five-game winning streak stopped. Brent Johnson started the game in net, but was pulled after two periods as he gave up three goals on 13 shots. Jose Theodore, though, fared little better between the pipes as he gave up four goals on 15 shots.
Philadelphia grabbed the lead early in the first period as Hartnell moved up the ice and from the middle of the blueline fed the puck over to Lupul, who beat a defender and from the right circle fired a shot past Johnson at the 4:29 mark.
It was Niittymaki, though, who was the star of the first period as Washington threw shots on net from everywhere and the goaltender stopped all 25 shots he saw.
His best save came near the midway mark of the frame while Washington was on the power play as he flashed the glove on an Alexander Ovechkin one-timer from the left circle.
The 25 shots on net set team records for Philadelphia and Washington. It was the most shots allowed on net in one period at home for Philadelphia while it was the most shots in a road game for Washington.
The Capitals continued to pepper Niittymaki with shots in the second period as the team got 14 on net, but it was the Flyers who were able to find the back of the net.
With the puck in his own end, Lupul sprung Carter with a pass through the neutral zone. Carter skated into the Washington end and from the left circle used the defender as a screen on a wrister past Johnson with 4:49 left in the frame.
Just 54 seconds later, Carter scored again on a shorthanded goal. The team pressured the puck-holder at the left point and Braydon Coburn wound up with the disc. He sprung Carter on the breakaway and Carter calmly lifted a backhander past Johnson.
Just 4:45 into the third, Philadelphia took a 4-0 lead as Hartnell caused a turnover with a hit behind the net and centered the puck for Lupul, whose one- timer was stopped, but Hartnell slammed the rebound home from the right side.
Washington, though, got on the board just 24 seconds later as Laich went from the forehand to the backhand and got the puck past Niittymaki.
On the power play, Philadelphia got the goal back as Matt Carle's one-timer from the right circle was stopped by Theodore, but the puck popped into the air and Hartnell whacked it home at the 7:29 mark.
The Flyers then made it a 6-1 game with a 5-on-3 power-play goal as Carter fired a pass from the left side to the right where Simon Gagne had the easy dunk into the net with 10:41 to play.
Hartnell gained the hat trick with 3:35 left in the game as he finished a tic- tac-toe play.
Game Notes
The 25 shots on net in the first period tied a franchise record for the Capitals which it set on February 3, 1998 against Tampa Bay in Washington... The most ever shots allowed in one period by Philadelphia was 32, which occurred in the first period of a game in Minnesota on December 13, 1972... Philadelphia plays in New Jersey on Sunday...Washington plays against the Rangers in New York on Tuesday...Philadelphia went 2-for-5 on the power play and scored its league-leading 13th shorthanded goal of the season...Philadelphia has not lost a game at home in regulation since November 8 against Tampa Bay and is 9-0-2 since at Wachovia.
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Las Vegas Sports Consultants (LVSC) is the world’s premier oddsmaking company and the most respected authority on making the lines. Mike Seba is a Senior Oddsmaker at LVSC and has been making lines for the last six years. In our extended interview, Seba explained that there are 4-5 oddsmakers assigned to make lines for each of the major sports (pro & college football and basketball; MLB, NHL, boxing, golf). Each of these oddsmakers bring unique opinions, strengths and weaknesses to the process. Oddsmakers at LVSC are professional sports junkies who love what they do and would probably do it for nothing if you asked them, but they do get paid for it. By necessity their approach is very research-oriented and concise, since with millions of dollars at risk there is little margin for error.
“You either have a passion for it or you don’t,” Seba said.
“The #1 thing for us is to make a line for each game that creates good two-way action. We do this by drawing from past experiences and applying them to current situations. People think it’s much more complicated, but it’s not. “Divided action means the sportsbook is guaranteed a profit on the game because of the fee charged to the bettor (called juice or vig – typically $11 bet to win $10).
Power ratings are the oddsmaker’s value of each team and are used as a guide to calculate a "preliminary" pointspread on an upcoming game. The power ratings are adjusted after each game a team plays. Examples of non-game factors that would require an adjustment to a team's power rating are key player injuries and player trades.
Once a game’s power rating based pointspread is determined, the oddsmaker will make adjustments to that line after considering each team's most recent games played and previous games played against that opponent. Also, adjustments are made after reading each team’s local newspapers to get a sense of what the coaches & players are thinking going into the game.Since the oddsmaker’s ultimate goal is equally dividing the sports betting action, public perception and sportsbook betting patterns must be taken into account. For example, the public might have heavy betting interest week after week on a popular college football betting team such as USC. If an oddsmaker comes up with a preliminary line of USC -7, then an adjustment up to -7.5 or -8 would be made in response to the public’s expected USC bias.
The last step in the line-making process for each oddsmaker is taking one final look to determine whether or not the line "feels right." This is where common sense and past experience with how games are bet enters into the picture.A round-table discussion among the 4-5 oddsmakers involved in making the line for each sport is then conducted and a consensus line is decided upon by the Odds Director before it is released to the sportsbooks. Of the 4-5 oddsmakers, generally the 2 most respected opinions are weighed more heavily by the Odds Director before he decides on the final line.
Experts working for the individual books having a strong opinion on the game
Individual books having players who consistently bet with certain tendencies (such as an extreme bias toward favorites or toward a certain popular team like USC)The purpose of these adjustments, like all line adjustments, is to more equally divide the betting action.
Once betting begins, sportsbooks can adjust the line at any time. In doing so they attempt to make more attractive the team that is getting less action. By moving the line, sportsbooks can influence how the public bets on a particular game.For example, if the pointspread on a game is 7 and most of the money is coming in on the underdog (taking the +7), sportsbooks will then move the number down to 6 ½ to try and attract money on the favorite.
Moving the line is the oddsmaker's effort to balance betting action, and often times such moves can have a major impact on a bettor’s decision. Oddsmakers can also change the line depending on various event-related factors such as player injuries or weather. Obviously, if the line comes out a week ahead of the event (which is the case in football), there is much that could happen during the week leading up to the event that could affect the line. Oddsmakers have to determine if any changes are necessary and send out an "adjusted line."“The main objective is that our clients get equal action on both sides,” Seba said. “We’re not trying to pick the team that covers the spread, we’re trying to make it a coin flip, a tough decision (for the bettor). If we’ve done that, we’ve done our job.”
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New York, NY – October 3, 2007 – The dress rehearsal is over! The NHL preseason has ended and now that fans have had a glimpse of what is to come it is time to hit the book! Stanley Cup odds are live at MySportsbook.com, the world’s largest online sportsbook and casino.
The Ottawa Senators and Detroit Red Wings remain on top of the odds charts after an impressive start in the preseason. Betting lines opened for both teams at 6-1 in June. Since then the Sens have fallen to 7-1 and the Red Wings are now caught in a pack including the defending champion Carolina Hurricanes, the San Jose Sharks and the Anaheim Ducks, all at 10-1.
MySportsbook.com has also posted props on each team’s point total for the regular season. The Senators lead the charge at 108.5 followed by the Ducks at 106.5. Detroit will attempt a repeat for the prize as the Red Wings are deadlocked with the Predators at 104.5 a piece. The temporary loss of highly touted rookie Evgeni Malkin puts a lot of pressure on the stick of assistant captain Sidney Crosby - his lowly Pittsburgh Penguins are listed at 71.5.
Even if bettors are not brave enough to put their money on the underdog, an early bet on the favorites at sportsbook.com tends to produce bigger payouts than a mid-season wager. Placing a $1,000 bet last summer on the Detroit Red Wings or Ottawa Senators would have paid out to $8,000 and $10,000 respectively, opposed to a $2,500 or $3,000 payout at the beginning of the playoffs.
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