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Intriguing NHL Western Conference Matchups and Insights
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4/18/2025
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all right i want to start with the west actually dave because honestly i think that there's more
00:04
intriguing matchups in the west i think you've got some big rivalries you got a lot of things
00:08
in the western conference uh that really stick out to me uh now only two series starts saturday
00:15
now this is the nhl for you it is what it is i guess they didn't want the teams that played
00:18
thursday to only have one day off so you know you couldn't get any east teams like tampa or
00:23
washington etc in there so only two series are going to start saturday three start on sunday
00:28
another the rest on monday and then tampa and florida don't start till tuesday tuesday they're
00:33
not playing game one two which is absolutely nonsense but it is what it is dave let's start
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with winnipeg and st louis they'll play game one on saturday night uh we know the story here
00:42
president's trophy's been a curse last team to win the cup with the president's trophy was the
00:47
blackhawks in 12 13 i think it's only eight teams in the last 35 years or some ridiculous stat like
00:54
that it's very hard to do president's trophy winnipeg wins it and they get the team in st louis
01:00
that has been hot over the last couple of months bennington of course hella bucks had his problems
01:05
in the playoffs bennington's won a cup interesting first round matchup dave very interesting and i don't
01:12
know if it's the best case scenario for winnipeg i mean what st louis did to get to this point and get
01:20
in the playoffs awesome maybe not such a great stretch that you know the last couple games but
01:24
they got this guy in net he's won the cup and winnipeg has nothing but questions so i think this
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is an extended series um i think it might be what's known in the business as a a homer series meaning the
01:42
home team wins pretty much every game and we get this thing stretched out to uh a minimum of six maybe
01:49
seven games i don't think this price might surprise me um you know and i think it's sometimes the hockey
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prices don't surprise you because the odds makers we don't the seeds don't matter eights can beat
02:05
ones twos can beat sevens can beat twos this one surprised me this was a little heavy in my in my
02:12
yeah you know minus 225 for the series for winnipeg and i get it they're they were the best team in the
02:18
regular season but you know i don't think that they've warranted uh from their past couple years
02:25
this group with hellebuck is not warranted uh being that big of a favorite especially against
02:30
a goalie who's won a cup you know that's the thing for me you know goalie who's won a cup on the other
02:36
side now i do think winnipeg finds a way dave i don't think winnipeg's gonna go down here to st
02:41
louis in the first round but i'm agree with you on this aspect they could make it a little tough on
02:45
them uh here in this opening round series uh and make them think about it a little bit i think
02:50
i think minnesota's the team everybody wanted uh if you talk about the top i i think that that was
02:56
the matchup uh that everybody was kind of hoping for whether you were winnipeg or vegas in the west
03:02
the other uh series in that central division is of course this monster colorado dallas series and man
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i know jason robertson is a great player dave but i was very surprised how much things moved
03:16
off of this series by him getting injured this series was all colorado was a very slight favorite
03:23
when they first put the odds out a couple nights ago and now it's dropped uh completely to the point
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where i've got up to this very second uh with colorado minus 152 dallas plus 126 and then you saw
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dallas who was favored in the west dropped to fifth in the west on those odds boards big movements dave
03:43
huge um again i think colorado should be favored all things being equal um they split the first two
03:51
games go home you know hold home ice and then it kind of goes from there that's the way it looks
03:58
dallas is having a complete mess going into the playoffs where they lose seven in a row to finish the
04:03
season couldn't find anything that made them be the odds on favorite before all of that and then
04:09
the injury news um this is this is a bit strange as much as the other one surprised me with winnipeg
04:17
being such a big favorite i think the line is closer to being right now uh i thought it was a
04:22
little you know shaded a little bit light when it first came out so colorado being a favorite makes
04:28
more sense uh this would be an over series meaning games more likely to go over i think than the first
04:35
series we just talked about the winnipeg st louis is going to be a lot of unders um they're going to
04:40
look different but man colorado is along with vegas now one of the teams to beat odds wise in the west
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they are they are now officially the odds are my favorite
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