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12/20/2008 - Boston, MA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - David Krejci and Shawn Thornton scored third- period goals to lift the Boston Bruins to a 4-2 victory over the Carolina Hurricanes at TD Banknorth Garden.
Marc Savard also scored and Stephane Yelle added an empty-net goal for Boston, which has won four straight and nine of its last 10. Manny Fernandez stopped 32 shots in the victory.
The Bruins have also captured 13 straight at home and improved to 13-1-1 at the Garden. They began the home slate with a 2-1 shootout loss to Pittsburgh and a 4-2 setback to Toronto in October. Boston's win streak is its longest at home since a 16-game run during the 1975-76 season.
Joni Pitkanen and Ray Whitney scored for Carolina, which had won two in a row and failed to register a point for the first time in seven games (3-1-3). Rod Brind'Amour assisted on both goals for the Hurricanes, while Cam Ward made 32 saves in defeat.
The game was tied heading into the third period, but Krejci gave Boston the lead for the first time just 3:54 into the stanza. Vladimir Sobotka raced into the Carolina zone along the right wing and sent a cross-ice pass to the left circle for Krejci, who flipped a high shot past Ward for his 12th goal of the season.
Thornton made it a 3-1 game eight minutes later, as he picked up a loose puck behind the Carolina net, skated out to the right of Ward and snapped a shot past the short side for his second goal.
Whitney pulled the Hurricanes within one with 4:36 remaining, whacking home the second rebound of an initial shot by Scott Walker, but Yelle found the empty net in the closing seconds to seal it.
Carolina took a 1-0 lead on a power-play goal by Pitkanen just under five minutes into the game. Pitkanen received a cross-ice pass from Brind'Amour and beat Fernandez with a shot from the left circle for his third goal.
Ward stopped all nine Boston shots he faced in the opening period, but the Bruins tied it at 7:06 of the second. Phil Kessel, who had a goal disallowed a few minutes earlier on an obvious high stick, sent a pass into the slot and the puck deflected off a couple of players. Savard was the beneficiary of the bounce, skated to the left of the crease and lifted a shot over Ward for his 10th goal.
Game Notes
Boston's Patrice Bergeron left the ice in the second period after a collision. He was able to skate off under his own power...Kessel has a 17-game point streak, the longest for a Bruin since Adam Oates recorded points in 20 straight games from January 7 through February 20, 1997...Brind'Amour has a six-game assist streak...The Hurricanes were 1-for-3 on the power play, while Boston failed on its lone attempt with the extra skater.
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Austin Freeman donated 10 points and seven rebounds for the H
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Benni McCarthy scored twice and Jason Roberts tall
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The two sides entered the match
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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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The most popular sports to bet on are NFL and college football along with NBA and NCAA basketball. There are multiple betting opportunities within those sports, beginning with the basic wager on a game’s outcome (also called betting the side). College Football Point spreads are used in both football and basketball in an attempt to even the attractiveness of each team in a match-up. ( See our article detailing how and why point spreads are made)
But you could also simply bet on the money line, or straight-up winner of the game. Oddsmakers use the money line so that more money must be risked on the favorite or expected winner and less money on the underdog to balance the action on both sides. While money line gambling is an attractive option for football and basketball bettors who only care about picking a winner, it is the primary option for those bettors who enjoy wagering on MLB baseball and individual sports like boxing, tennis, golf and racing events such as NASCAR. ( More details on playing the Money Line)
Another bet across all major team sports including football, basketball, baseball, and hockey involves wagering on the amount of scoring in a game, called an Over/Under total. For example, the Over/Under total on Super Bowl XXXIX was 48, which means a bettor could wager whether there would be more or less than 48 points scored by both teams combined in the game.
The final score of Super Bowl XXXIX was 24-21; the scoring of both teams added up to 45, which means the game went Under . So Under bettors won, and Over bettors lost.
Sports gambling doesn’t end there. Betting sides and totals are the most common wagers available everywhere, but many sportsbooks also offer future bets on big upcoming events like who will win next year’s Super Bowl and what movie will win Best Picture at the Academy Awards.
The main advantage of futures is that you can get appealing odds by betting far in advance. For example, with NFL futures you often can get much higher odds on a team by betting before the season even starts. A NFL future bet on a team to win the Super Bowl odds might be 20/1 in the preseason; but by midseason, their odds might decrease to 10/1 if they turn out to be legitimate championship contenders.
Involves one individual wager, whether it be on your team to cover the point spread, to win the game straight-up on the money line, or to go over/under the total.
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