Friday NHL Best Bet, Thursday recaps
Thursday was spent getting NFL injury updates and monitoring the line moves for the upcoming Divisional Playoffs this weekend, but my midweek days are becoming more about our NHL Best Bets with First-Period Overs as this has been feeling like the winter/spring of 2019 all over again.
And if you’ve been following along, you know it takes some extra work to shop around for the best prices with the 1P Over 1.5 wagers as more books have been going to Over 2 with some of the hot Over teams. On Thursday, we hit our Best Bet for the second straight day as we gave out Ducks-Blue Jackets 1P Over 1.5 -155/Lightning-Oilers 1P Over -145 for a parlay payoff of +178. The Blue Jackets jumped out to a 3-0 lead vs. the Ducks and the Oilers topped the Lightning 2-0 in the first 20 minutes to get us the cash. Even though we don’t need to hit 50% to make a profit with these parlays, that improved our record to 4-2 for a profit of 4.94 units (note: the picks are 10-2 in the individual games for those willing to lay around an average of -160). Let’s recap the rest of Thursday’s (full-game) action and then give our Friday Best Bet as we’ll continue to stay on the ice even though there are only two NHL games on Friday. And then, as has become our custom here, we’ll rerun our Wednesday column in which we give our “takes” on the upcoming weekend’s NFL playoff schedule with updates based on the current lines.
Thursday Recaps
NBA: Faves went 3-2 SU but dogs led 3-2 ATS with the Warriors (+6.5) covering in 121-118 OT loss at Celtics. The upsets were by the TImberwolves (+4 in 128-126 win vs. Raptors) and Suns (+3.5 in 117-112 win vs. Nets). Home teams went 3-2 SU but road teams led 3-2 ATS. Unders led 3-2.
More NBA: On the season, favorites lead 434-239 SU with 9 games closing pick-'em while underdogs still lead and improved to 339-316-18 ATS (51.8%). Home teams lead 409-273 SU and 349-317-17 ATS (52.4%). In totals wagering, Overs' lead dipped to 354-318-10 (52.7%).