[gregm]

Poor start to the season. This is the same writeup I had from my baseball thread and I am going to try and keep a season long record like I did in baseball this year and will keep these on my spreadsheet.

I am not really excited about wagering on any of these games, with malkin and Crosby out I am not going to touch the Pitt home opener. The story on malkin not dressing for home opener http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pitt.../s_761272.html

Ottawa is going to be dismal this year, I usually dont like to play teams on a back to back but I love the additions the Wild made with Dany Heatley and Devin Setoguchi and they seem to be playing a lot faster style of play with their usual strong defensive play. I will take a Wild team all year long at +1, +1.5 , especially facing Ottawa.

Wild +1 -167 risk 1.67

Detroit looks like the stronger play on the board but it should be a close one, Detroit is 20-8 in its last 28 home games and Texas is 5-17 in its last 22 games in Detroit. Lewis is on the mound for the Rangers and has been undefeated in the postseason but did get lit up in Detroit this year,giving up 10 hits and five runs and going 4 innings in Detroit in August, he gave up nine runs and four home runs in 3 1/3-innings at home in June.

Fister seems sort of strange to me, his win loss record looks so bad because he was pitching for a bad team in Seattle but still had a great era.

He is traded to a good team and he goes 8-1 with a 1.79 ERA in 11 outings for Detroit, his numbers at home have been phenomenal, 4-0 with a 0.98 ERA in five starts at comerica.This is a tough call but I am going with detroit.

Tigers -125 risk 1.25

Tough call on the total, Jim Wolf is behind the plate tonight and his numbers would seem to point to the over. Wolf saw the over go 18-11 in the regular season with an average of 9.24 runs scored when he is behind the plate. I just like these two starters, both are tough pitchers and if we see in a over I think it comes in the later innings, Texas bullpen threw alot of pitches last night.

first 5 inning under 5 -140 risk 1.4

adding TEX/DET no score 1st inn -115 risk 1.15

[gregm]

I am going to add Pitt. After watching this Versus pregame, I am going to put something ont his one tonight, I really hadn't read much about florida and hearing about all these new players for Florida and pitts good record even without Malkin and crosby in the lineup is putting me on the Pens.

Pens -1 +112 risk 1