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02/16/2007 - Phoenix, AZ (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Teemu Selanne scored a pair of goals, including the game-winner in overtime, as the Anaheim Ducks rallied from a three-goal deficit to defeat the Phoenix Coyotes, 5-4.
In the extra session, Phoenix went down a man when Travis Roche was called for interference 83 seconds in.
Then, with the Coyotes trying to clear the puck, Ryan Getzlaf won a battle along the boards and pushed the disc ahead to Selanne, who was wide open in front of the crease. He finished off the play by backhanding the puck under the outstretched pad of Curtis Joseph at 1:53.
Chris Pronger also scored twice for Anaheim, which snapped a three-game skid. The Ducks had been shut out in two straight and three of their last five games coming in.
Dustin Penner also tallied, Selanne added an assist, and Getzlaf and Scott Niedermayer each finished with a pair of helpers for Anaheim. Jean-Sebastian Giguere finished with 22 saves.
Owen Nolan, Keith Ballard, Mathias Tjarnqvist and Oleg Saprykin all scored for Phoenix, which has lost four straight and seven of its last nine games overall. Joseph surrendered all five goals on 40 shots.
With his team down by three, Pronger ignited the rally by notching a power play tally with just five seconds remaining in the middle stanza, cutting Anaheim's deficit to 4-2 heading to the third.
The Ducks then continued to chip away in the final stanza, resulting in the team's third score. Ryan Shannon took the initial shot, which Joseph turned aside, but the puck was collected by Penner off the right side, where he unleashed a sharp-angle shot that banked off Joseph's skate and rolled over the goal line at 5:11.
A controversial score completed the Anaheim comeback a little more than two minutes later, as Pronger collected his second of the night.
Getzlaf threw a wrist shot toward the net, and with a huge scrum in front of the crease, Corey Perry used a hand pass to sweep the puck backwards. Getzlaf found the puck and immediately dished to Pronger, who ripped a slapshot past Joseph to tie the game at 4-4 with 12:28 remaining in the contest.
Phoenix couldn't convert on a couple of power-play chances later on, and the see-saw battle continued all the way to the end of regulation.
The Ducks wasted no time in bringing an end to their scoreless drought, as Selanne netted the game's first score just 3:33 after the opening faceoff.
The dynamic forward, who leads the team with 66 points, capped a flurry of shots by Anaheim at even strength. Shawn Thornton hit the crossbar on the first attempt, then had a shapshot denied before Andy McDonald took his chance on a wrister. Joseph also got a piece of that shot before Selanne was there to stuff home the rebound and make it 1-0.
Phoenix then responded with four unanswered goals to take command of the game.
Nolan got things started later in the period, as the right winger collected a feed from new acquisition Tjarnqvist and sent a wrist shot past Giguere at 12:33 to knot things up at 1-1.
Ballard then used a wrister that the netminder couldn't catch up to, putting the Coyotes on top 2-1 with 52 seconds remaining in the first stanza.
Tjarnqvist and Saprykin both tallied a little more than four minutes apart in the second, putting Phoenix up by three. Tjarnqvist's goal, which came on a snap shot at 2:48, was just his second of the season, while Saprykin netted his 12th of the campaign on a wrister at 6:58.
Game Notes
Earlier in the day, the Coyotes announced forward Patrick Fischer will miss 6-8 weeks after having abdominal surgery...Fischer has played 27 games this season, collecting four goals and six assists...Also on Thursday, Phoenix officially signed captain Shane Doan to a five-year contract extension...The Ducks have not been shut out in three straight games since their inaugural season...Anaheim's scoreless streak lasted 142 minutes and 43 seconds...The Ducks are 15-1-2 with a tie against the Coyotes since Nov. 8, 2003, outscoring them 67-41, and are 5-1-0 in the series this season...Pronger's first goal of the game was also his 500th NHL point.
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Sportsbook betting odds favor Europe in Ryder Cup
September 19, – Despite holding a decided edge in the all-time series, with 24 wins, 2 ties and 10 losses, Team USA is the underdog again heading into the Ryder Cup in Kidare, Ireland this weekend, according to MySportsbook.com. The Europeans have captured four of the past five editions, including their largest victory ever, an 18 ½ to 9 ½ thumping in Michigan in 2004. Current Ryder Cup betting odds favor the Europeans to continue their winning ways; they are a 4-5 bet to take the title, compared to 6-5 for the Americans.
Despite being knocked out in the first round of World Match play by Shaun Micheel, Tiger Woods is predicted to lead the US charge and be their highest point scorer for the week, with odds listed at 9-4 that he outpoints all other American players, including Jim Furyk, Phil Mickelson and Chris DiMarco to name a few. Team USA has four relatively unknown players on the roster but all four are 2007 tournament winners and have posted some of season’s best performances, each earning over $1.5 million on the PGA TOUR. They include Zach Johnson, Vaughan Taylor, JJ Henry and Brett Wetterich.
The experienced European squad includes the likes of Luke Donald, Sergio Garcia, Padraig Harrington, Jose Maria Olazabal and Darren Clarke, who’s emotions will be tested after the passing of his wife to a battle with cancer. Donald and Garcia are in particularly good form and each is a 5-1 bet to lead the European squad in the points race. Donald has proven he can go head to head with Woods at a major event after a run for the $1.2 million purse at the PGA Championship. Garcia’s Ryder Cup credentials prove he’s ready for battle too.
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Ryder Cup Odds| Europe Tie USA |
4-5 10-1 6-5 |
| Tiger Woods Jim Furyk Phil Mickelson Chris DiMarco David Toms Stewart Cink Chad Campbell Scott Verplank Zach Johnson Vaughan Taylor JJ Henry Brett Wetterich |
9-4 4-1 5-1 7-1 8-1 12-1 15-1 15-1 25-1 30-1 30-1 50-1 |
| Sergio Garcia Luke Donald Padraig Harrington Colin Montgomerie Darren Clarke David Howell Lee Westwood Paul Casey Henrik Stenson Jose Maria Olazabal Paul McGinley Robert Karlsson |
5-1 5-1 6-1 13-2 8-1 9-1 9-1 11-1 12-1 12-1 20-1 25-1 |
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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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