BEST LINES: Pinnacle -1½ +433 Bet365 -1½ +425 SportsInteraction N/A  5DIMES -1½ +425

BEST LINES: Pinnacle +166 Bet365 +170 SportsInteraction +175 5DIMES +170

Posted at 1:30 PM EST 

Before we begin and until further notice, we’re going to be splitting up our NHL underdogs into two bets. We’re playing them straight up for 1 unit and we’ll be playing them on the reverse puck line (-1½) for 1 unit, thus making up our traditional 2 unit bet. The thinking is that if the dog loses, we lose our bet anyway. If the game goes into OT, which is a coin-toss anyway, we lose our -1½ bet but have a chance to profit a pork-chop if we happen to get lucky and win it in the extra time. If our team is winning by a goal, we know for sure we’ll get a crack at an empty netter and there is also a good chance that if our team is ahead, it might be by more than one goal anyway. Therefore, our bet for this game and every dog we play will be -1½ for 1 unit and straight up for one unit.

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7:05 PM EST. OT included. How unlucky do you have to be to lose 11 games to open the season? Very. The last team to do so was the New York Rangers in 1943. Not even expansion teams, and there have been some horrible one’s, lost 11 in a row to open the year. The stunning part is that the Coyotes are not a bad hockey team. In fact, they’re pretty good. The Coyotes have scored the first goal eight times in those 11 games. They rank 14th in scoring chances, sandwiched between the Islanders and Canadiens. They rank 16th in high danger scoring chances against, sandwiched between the Blue Jackets and Flames. The ‘Yotes real problem is that everything is going in against them. Against New Jersey on Saturday, Arizona took a 3-2 lead into the third and outshot the Devils 15-6 in that period but lost 4-3. They outshot the Devils 37-25 overall. The Coyotes have outshot and out-chanced seven of their 11 opponents this year. What’s incredible is not that they have lost 11 straight but that they have yet to win. The Arizona Coyotes are playing too well to keep losing and so we’ll get behind them again here.

Philadelphia’s goaltending situation is very suspect as long as Brian Elliott is in goal and he’s confirmed here. Elliott’s save percentage is .884 but since the Flyers signed him to a big deal, they’ll continue to play him. The Coyotes goaltending situation is certainly not any better but Arizona is not the team spotting a big price. We also love that this one home game for the Flyers is sandwiched between four road games. The Flyers just played in Ottawa and Toronto and will head out to play in Chicago and St. Louis after this one. Obviously the victory in Toronto on Hockey Night in Canada was a big one that players look forward to every year. Aside from that, the Flyers metrics are worse than Arizona’s in several key categories. No question that the Flyers are dangerous but they are not ready or worthy of being this high a price against a team that is playing as well as they are. The Coyotes are just as dangerous and a lot more desperate.

The bets are as follows:

Arizona -1½ +433 for 1 unit

Arizona +171 for 1 unit

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