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Flames resume postseason push against struggling SharksHockey Betting Lines03/19/2010 - (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Calgary Flames will continue their postseason push tonight, when they host the sliding San Jose Sharks at the Saddledome. While the Sharks are tied for first in the West with 96 points, the Flames enter Friday just one point behind Detroit for the eighth and final seed in the conference. The Red Wings are in action tonight in Edmonton. The Flames and Sharks have split two games this year, but Calgary will be seeking revenge from a 9-1 blowout loss it was dealt the last times the clubs met on January 18 in San Jose. The Flames have taken six of nine overall in the series and the Sharks have dropped three of their last five in Calgary. Calgary ended a two-game slide on Wednesday with a big regulation win at Colorado. Rene Bourque tallied twice and Vesa Toskala made 32 saves as the Flames clipped the Avalanche, 3-2, at Pepsi Center. Eric Nystrom picked up the other score for the Flames, who won for the fifth time in seven tilts to give them 79 points on the year. "Overall, it was a solid road win. We knew coming in we had to play well, and we're going to have to do the same from here on out," noted Flames head coach Brent Sutter. "Every game from now on is big for us." The Flames played their second straight game without forward Christopher Higgins, who is suffering from a foot injury and is questionable for tonight. Higgins has two goals and an assist in 12 games since coming to Calgary in a trade with the New York Rangers. Calgary is just 17-16-3 as the host this year and has lost nine of its last 14 games at the Saddledome. San Jose comes into tonight on a downswing having lost three straight in regulation during an 0-3-1 slide. The Sharks were destroyed 8-2 in Dallas on Tuesday and then were dealt a 3-2 setback Thursday in Vancouver. The slide has helped Chicago tie San Jose for the conference lead and has also allowed Phoenix to pull within three points of the Sharks for first place in the Pacific Division. Ryan Kesler and Alexander Edler each had a goal and an assist to lead the Canucks to Thursday's victory at GM Place. Joe Pavelski had a goal and an assist for the Sharks, who fell behind 2-0 in the first period and never recovered. "In the third period, we got a couple goals. We got to find something; we start taking a few more chances, and it led to one goal there. But it's tough to come back from two or three goals," Pavelski said. Ryan Clowe also lit the lamp. Evgeni Nabokov turned aside 23-of-26 shots in defeat. The Sharks have an excellent 21-11-2 record as the guest this year, but have struggled so far with an 0-3-0 mark on a current six-game road trip. San Jose has lost five of its last six away from Silicon Valley.
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(Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Minnesota Wild will try to get their playoff run back on track tonight when they visit the Columbus Blue Jackets at Nationwide Arena. The Wild, who are six points behind Detroit for the eighth and final postseason ber
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(Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Oilers picked up two wins over the Red Wings this year when facing the club during its tough opening to the season. They won't be as lucky tonight when they try to win three straight over the Red Wings for the first time
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FOOTBALL BETTING : Crabtree's base deal: six years, $32 millionIn the wake of the news that the 49ers have signed receiver Michael Crabtree after an extended holdout, there has been not a hint of the dollars to be paid to Crabtree. And since this means that his agent hasn't leaked the numbers, it means that his agent feels no specific motivation to do so. Possibly because his agent isn't all that thrilled to have his name on the deal. So the numbers will come from sources other than Crabtree's agent. And we've gotten our mitts into them. Per a league source, Crabtree has signed a six-year, $32 million contract. (The total includes guaranteed money, base salaries, and the one-time incentive based on achieving minimum playing time.) The deal also includes $17 million in guaranteed money. As reported elsewhere, the deal can void to five years based on performance triggers, wiping out a final year base salary of $4 million. But they won't be easily reached. The source tells us that, in his first four seasons (including 2009), Crabtree must either qualify for two Pro Bowls, or he must qualify for one Pro Bowl in one year and he must participate in 80 percent of the offensive snaps in a separate year in which the team makes the playoffs. In other words, if in 2010 he qualifies for the Pro Bowl and the team makes the playoffs and he participates in 80 percent of the snaps, he'll still need to make it to the Pro Bowl or achieve the 80-percent/playoffs in another season. Since the chances of Crabtree making the Pro Bowl or participating in 80 percent of the offensive snaps this year is roughly zero percent, he'll have three years to get it done. And it won't be easy. Frankly, he'll be hard pressed to make it to one Pro Bowl in three years with the likes of Larry Fitzgerald, Calvin Johnson, Anquan Boldin, Steve Smith, the other Steve Smith, Hakeem Nicks, DeSean Jackson, Johnny Knox, Percy Harvin, Greg Jennings, Roddy White, T.J. Houshmandzadeh in the same conference for sportsbook betting. So, by all appearances, it's a six-year deal. And at $17 million in guaranteed money, the per-year guarantee is a tepid $2.83 million per year. There's another problem with the deal -- it has no mid-tier incentive package. Instead, the additional $8 million that Crabtree can earn (pushing the max value to six years, $40 million) requires the kind of unrealistic, mega-star performances that no rookie is likely to ever achieve. So while the contract paid to Packers defensive tackle B.J. Raji covers five years and pays $22.5 million, he has the ability (if he's a solid player) to make up the difference between his base deal and Crabtree's five-year, $28 million haul via the mid-tier incentive package in Raji's deal. And unless Crabtree meets the performance thresholds necessary to void the sixth year, he'll be stuck under contract for another year at a base salary of only $4 million. There's one other area of concern with the deal. Crabtree, per the source, received no option bonus. Instead, he has significant money tied to a fairly new device known as a "discretionary salary advance," which unlike an opition bonus is subject to forfeiture if Crabtree decides in a year or two that he wants to hold out for a better deal. (We're also told that the 49ers have included language that would make certain escalators subject to forfeiture, too.) Meanwhile, the deal falls well short of the mark for which Crabtree and agent Eugene Parker were aiming -- the five-year, $38.25 million contract paid by the Raiders to receiver Darrius Heyward-Bey, the seventh overall pick in the draft. Even if Crabtree successfully voids the final year, he'll make more than $2 million per year less on average than Heyward-Bey. Thus, as we explained earlier in the day, this is a deal that Crabtree could have done in July, which would have given him a much better chance of making a contribution to the 49ers during his rookie year. So while the final outcome can be described as win-win, the broader view suggests that it's really a lose-lose situation. To visit this sportsbook go to MySportsbook.com for all your college football betting needs. |
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