Saturday NHL Best Bets, Friday Recaps
Friday was a diverse day in the Tuley’s Takes home office. I helped Chris Andrews with his “inside the betting action” column on this Sunday’s NFL Championship Games, added my plays to the VSiN NFL Best Bets article and did a bunch of handicapping for my “Tuley’s Thoroughbred Takes” column for Saturday’s big day and added it to my friend Ed Sehon’s “Mr. Ed” piece at VSiN.com/horse-racing/.
But while we have to wait to see how successful all those plays turned out to be over the weekend, the most rewarding part of Friday was my NHL First-Period Over bets as we went 3-0 for our followers and personally cleaned up by sweeping our round-robin parlays. I won my Best Bet on Senators-Maple Leafs 1P Over -150/Flames-Kraken 1P Over -140 (parlay payoff of +186) as Senators-Maple Leafs was a 7 p.m.ET/4 p.m. PT game and the teams both scored in the first 7:15. I then had to wait until 9 p.m. ET/6 p.m. PT to complete the parlay as Flames-Kraken also covered early with both teams scoring in the first 7:16 on the way to four goals in the first 20 minutes!.
At the same time, my other posted “potential play” on the Blue Jackets-Canucks cashed even easier as the teams exchanged goals in the first 2:08! Regular readers will remember that I usually play round-robins of 2’s and 3’s in these situations and that paid around 10-1 depending on what lines you received on the individual First Periods.
For our grading purposes here, we’re back to 6-6 with my daily top 1P Over plays, but because these parlays are at plus-money the way we play these, we’re now back ahead 4.74 units. Let’s recap the rest of Friday’s (full-game) betting action and then look for Best Bets on Saturday as we’ll stick to the ice since it’s been so successful. We have a bunch of plays for Saturday (more-than-usual bunch of swagger/anti-swagger plays, plus it seems like the NHL is trying to stay out of the NFL’s domination of the news cycle on Sunday and Monday LOL!)i And then, as has become our custom around here, we’ll rerun our NFL column from Wednesday and update our “takes” on the NFL Championship Games based on the current lines.