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Cash, the ticket is back and we're not talking golf because yes, me, myself, Evan Jenkins, I let you down last week.

I told you to pick Scottie Schaeffler. Scottie Schaeffler did not win. I don't know if anybody noticed that it was actually a Matt few fits Patrick.

Overcame Jordan's speed on the playoff hole, the third playoff hole actually, and be happy that Jordan's speed didn't win, at least I am because I have been such a naysayer on his, but enough about my losses, enough about your losses.

Let's get some winning ways back and that means sir pucks a lot is in the house that is Kenny cut and Kenny first off, I didn't realize this until just a few moments ago that this is your opening day.

This is your Christmas, this is your Easter, this is every big holiday all wrapped up into one, and that is because the hockey playoffs are beginning Monday night.

This is the high holiday, this is what we all wait for. There's four games on tonight, two different time slots. This is everything that everybody waits for in the hockey world, and I'm not trying to be a dickhead or hear anything, maybe a little subtle shot, but these are on channels that we can watch tonight, right?

ESPN, yes, there on ESPN, I believe the other there's ESPN and ESPN two are both rolling, all hockey tonight, so how do you feel about betting these hockey games, because during the years sir pucks a lot, if you were following along, he would find what he liked to call a ratchet team and put that up against a good team, some of the times or other times, it was a lot like Mike system, that's not a system that is a system is finding these teams that should be better on paper, aren't better on paper.

And we had Corsi, we had Fenwick, we had stats coming out of our ears, but how do you feel about betting the NHL playoffs?

I think if you confidently bet all of the games on every night, I feel like it's just a it's rat poison. I feel not confident in most of these games, I feel like it's like putting your dick in a blender, honestly, if you want to bet all these games, that's a that's a horrible mistake.

I'm going to try to find angles though of things that you can do because inevitably there's going to be a seven game series, which means if you bet every time, you're going to start losing money, there's teams at plus odds, I mean, when you have the teams playing Boston, I mean, Jesus Christ, this team was a regular season wagon, you're getting virtually no value, but with if you bet Florida plus 180, I mean, it's it's a terrifying game. I'm staying away. There's tons of games that you just have to stay away from for your own sanity.

And I feel like that plus 180 is bigger than most of these regular season games that you were actually betting, right? Oh, that's much bigger. I don't think I bet anything bigger than maybe plus 150. Okay. So early on, are you suggesting to stay away from the Boston series, or are you leaning more towards just take Boston and collect your check with something like that. I'm staying away from the Boston series inevitably Florida will win a game. I don't see that that series being a sweep.

And whatever day that happens to fall on is going to be the day where you still are betting Boston and then all of a sudden, all of your profits are completely gone.

And you still and you still feel better like betting the money line more. So then the spread. I don't even know what the spread and NHL playoff game.

He has what's called the puck line, which is basically like baseball plus or minus a goal and a half, which I mean, basically is is the other team going to get an empty net goal is what you're betting on at some point, because a lot of these playoff games are going to go down to the wire.

It's going to be a one goal game. Somebody's going to pull the goalie. Maybe they tied up. And if that's the case, you're going to OT and if you pick the plus one and a half, regardless, you win or you lose if you pick the minus. So it's I hate betting puck line. I just I have no confidence in in how the empty net scenario plays out.

I just picked the winner. I find a good plus odds thing and I try to do as best I can for everybody here.

And for me being a hockey novice, I don't I may parachute. Kenny was asking me earlier, how many of these games I'm actually going to watch. I said, I may turn one on. Now I will definitely be following along with my app to see if Kenny's right here, but typically these games are very, very tight.

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