The UMass Football Team (+2.0 Goals) (-120)
The Phantom Pie Pie (-2.0 Goals) (-120)
Over 7.5 Goals (-120)
Under 7.5 Goals (-120)
Notes: This would have been probably the marquee matchup of the night pitting two of the best defensive squads in the league against each other. Unfortunately 1st overall pick Joe Magosin is out for this one which puts UMass at a significant disadvantage against the 1st place orange team. And when I say significant disadvantage, I really mean it as orange has been mostly rolling through games to start the season. But they do have Source and that’s really worth a lot.
Will his presence, fresh off his first goal of the season last week, and Russo fresh off a two goal game and subsequent celly in Yehuda’s face be enough? I’m not entirely sure against a close to full strength orange team, but those two and Jo Robin should be enough to keep it somewhat close. I’m giving orange the edge but nothing too crazy.
The UMass Football Team (+2.0 Goals) (-120)
Glazin’ Donuts (-2.0 Goals) (-120)
Over 7.5 Goals (-130)
Under 7.5 Goals (-110)
Notes: If you want to see how Glazin’ Donuts celebrates goals just go to our Instagram page where Ryan gets into the prone sniper position only to get possibly surprised by a prone bone situation from Pete. Listen, Pete’s missed the first few weeks of the season and has presumably been having sex the entire time, I think it’s entirely possible that after Ryan scored the other night Pete legitimately temporarily forgot where he was for a second. In any case, that kind of camaraderie cannot be discounted. I’m going to favor them by two; one for each guy in the phrase “guy on guy action.” People often ask me what kind of mathematical calculations go into these lines. Now you know.
Bruise Control (+2.0 Goals) (-120)
Glazin’ Donuts (-2.0 Goals) (-120)
Over 7.5 Goals (-120)
Under 7.5 Goals (-120)
Notes: Karly is apparently out for purple but seeing as no one’s asked me for subs or complained today, I have to think most teams are in decent shape. And if that’s the case, I think this is just a difficult overall matchup for purple. They can certainly hold the fort and keep this one close as that’s what they’re built to do as an all-around solid but mostly defensive team, especially since Simon is in for this one but apparently out for the late game. But with what I assume is going to be a full strength silver team, I don’t think it’ll be quite enough. Donuts 5-2.
Sex Ed (-3.5 Goals) (-145)
Baja Blast (+3.5 Goals) (EVEN)
Over 7.5 Goals (-120)
Under 7.5 Goals (-120)
Notes: Amit is a GTD for this one as is Mitch and Jacob/Nikki are out for blue, with Chad also a serious flight risk because it’s Habs/Lightning game 3 and just a Friday night in general. Not ideal, but the situation on the Baja side of the ledger is worse as they seem to be missing Donny, Minsky, Seb, Rys, Wagner and Brooke. They’ll have some subs in tow including Alex Horton (receiving special approval) and Kobi from the Skyfighters who I’ve never seen but I’ve heard is quite good and then I’ll have to figure out one more along the way. Corey’s back from injury and should be extremely fresh for this one in goal and green’s still got some high level players in for this one including everyone’s favorite bearded defenseman Joel, but if Neil is out they’re in serious trouble, especially since they’ve annoyed blue by picking a jersey color so close to blue that we have to wear black tonight. 6-2 black.
Bruise Control (+1.5 Goals) (EVEN)
Street Meat (-1.5 Goals) (-145)
Over 8.0 Goals (-120)
Under 8.0 Goals (-120)
Notes: This game is a clash in styles as you have a high flying, high variance street meat team taking on a purple team that will look to keep this game tight checking and low scoring and be opportunistic. Will they be successful? I guess that depends on a few factors, namely if Simon is in for this one (always a flight risk on a Friday night) and if Carl will be able to shut down his Street Meat teammates, for whom he moonlights as a tandem dman. The absences of Ian, PIgozzi and Ariel continue to loom large for yellow, but Ken’s continued attendance is a good sign as is Rob bringing a bottle of postgame booze for the team. And I would be remiss if I didn’t mention that at long last, Doug will be making his Street Meat debut as a forward, parking that meaty ass directly in the opponents crease like it’s his own personal street meat truck. That kind of sways the line in a big way. 5-3 yellow depending on if Carl can move that thing. I’m betting he cannot.