NHL Picks/Props

With a rather busy slate of games this fine Saturday evening, there’s much to get to. Hope you enjoy my debut column and more importantly hope it proves to be helpful as you prepare for your weekend hockey fix.

There are 12 games on the schedule for Saturday, and not to make any excuses but I’ve been hampered by a stomach virus the last 10 days, so here’s to keeping it short and sweet.  With only eight wins collectively last week, here’s hoping Thunder and I break .500... if not, my column will still become more useful as you’ll just have to bet on the team’s that I don’t pick…

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It’s great to have hockey back on again this year, and I apologize to the delay of our Saturday picks column as work has been crazy, and I’m finally in town to throw some numbers together.  Last year had its share of ups and downs... let’s face it, more downs than ups, but this is a clean slate so hopefully things can start off hot.  There are plenty of surprising teams to start the season, so I won’t be holding my breath this week.  Thunder returns for a 3^rd season and it’s come to the point that I have to lock my other dog out in order to even get these picks done in time.  Hope everyone’s got a cold beer on hand for the 13 games scheduled this Saturday.

You may wanna get on board with Notch this week - he's been on fire all season long. Here's his take on Saturday's games...

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Olympic hockey sure was fun to watch, but I am craving some competition. If I can pick NHL winners correct about 70% of the time, how hard is it to pick Canada to beat Germany or Norway? I will be picking my winners for Saturday’s games until the season is over now, as my partner in crime Marty Kwiaton is touring the world looking for the next Alexander Daigle.

These picks are sure to win you money. If you want to be positive you collect cash, just pick the teams I have winning and take out the extra goal in some of my plus picks this week. My winners are solid, but sometimes I gamble on the extra goal to increase my odds at bigger paydays.

Final Saturday of NHL hockey for a couple of weeks, but I’m sure watching the Olympics will be just as exciting. If anything it’ll be a little more relaxing for us poolies as there won’t be any fantasy hockey scoring to keep track of, except for the DobberHockey Olympic Pool. If you haven’t signed up yet, what are you waiting for?? It’s FREE!!! Let’s hope Thunder and I can head into the break on a winning note, as these may be our final picks of the year. I’m heading to Europe for a month so you guys will be able to win even more money by using Notch’s picks! Have a great weekend guys.

What a big week we just witnessed in the hockey world.  Washington and Ottawa have twelve and eleven game win streaks respectively.  On Thursday February 11^th, the two teams will face off, and the NHL should be scrambling to get the game on Versus in the US, as currently it will only be shown on TSN for Canadian viewers. For the two teams to remain unbeaten until that team, Washington will have to defeat Atlanta, Pittsburgh and Montreal, and Ottawa will have to beat Toronto and Calgary.

These two streaks mark only the 2^nd time in NHL history that two teams have concurrent winning streaks of more than 10 games. In other hockey news, the Devils trade for the biggest fish in the trade market – Ilya Kovalchuk.  On top of that, Toronto and Calgary completely overhauled their rosters (which could be bad news for Ottawa’s winning streak).