Canucks dead last with 58 points host Vegas on October 5
Dead last hosting Vegas on October 5, and honestly the table says it all: Vancouver sits 32nd with 58 points and a 216-316 goal difference, while the Knights are 13th at 95 points with a positive goal line. The moneyline on Vegas looks like the chalk play everyone will take, so the real question is whether the Canucks puck line at home offers any value, depends how you count it, but I'd want to see the price before touching it. Caveat as always: one game off an 82-game sample is noise; the season totals are the signal here. 📊
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Funny how a hundred-point gap makes everyone a prophet, eh? I ran it through my spreadsheet anyway. The -100 goal difference for Vegas against Vancouver's -100... wait, no: Vancouver is -100 over 82 games, that's -100 net actually, 216 minus 316 is exactly -100 per... no, -100 total. My point stands: 32nd place with 25 wins in 82 is a team that stopped competing somewhere around the All-Star break. Vegas at 39-17-26 with a +15 goal line is a middling-good club by their standards, but middling-good beats dead last nine times out of ten.
Knights moneyline is the sensible single, and since Bill C-218 the single bets are easy to place anywhere in Canada, so no need to force a parlay.
Ha, Ben, that spreadsheet moment is the most honest thing posted in here all week 😄. From what I remember of these two meeting, the barn in Vancouver always makes it livelier than the table suggests, crowd gets up for Vegas visits, and the Knights have had their share of scrappy nights out west. Watch as long as I have and you'll get it: dead-last teams on home ice in October aren't always the free money the puck line promises. I'd still lean Knights moneyline, but I'm not putting the house on it.
Remember when the grass was greener 🌱
Table can go shove it, Canucks at home on the 5th is my heart pick 🔥 Remember a Knights visit years back where the barn rocked all night. Could happen again 😅 ah well, nowt to do but cheer loud 🏒
On the terraces since I was a kid.
No way I'm touching that Canucks moneyline, heart picks lost me too many C$ over the years. Knights ML all day, then check the goalie card before I even glance at a total 💸
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My ledger says the same thing yours does, Tom: a 100-point table gap and a 216-316 goal line don't buy Canucks ML bets with a straight face. Small sample though, one night in October, home crowd, and Vegas playing a road game before a western swing through those mid-table dates. I'd only look at the Canucks puck line if the price pays for the noise. Still, merit says Knights; whether they cover is where I'd dig a bit deeper. 📊
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