I wouldn’t touch the Monday Night game with a 100 foot pole. Both teams are ridiculously flawed and I don’t see any way to squeeze any value out of it. It’s also a frustratingly dull night on the college front. What’s a guy to do to get a little action? Look to the rink, I guess. There are two games that are reasonably interesting on Monday night:

Anaheim (+100) at Columbus – Anaheim got a huge boost with the announced return of Scott Niedermayer this week, and I expect them to ride that wave to a victory over the struggling Blue Jackets.

Edmonton at Dallas (-1.5 +155) – I am from Calgary, so hatred for the Oilers is programmed into my DNA. Dallas is a better team, and the Oilers don’t travel well. I’ll take a risk at this price that Edmonton won’t be competitive.

UPDATE: Anaheim won, and so did Dallas, but not by enough. That means I exactly break even on the day. That seems fitting for a sports day that was so flat and uninteresting.

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Instead of this bad excuse for sports entertainment I am going to go watch Sidney Crosby, aka Wayne Gretzky Jr., play live in my hometown of Calgary for the first time ever. Normally I am blindly loyal to my Flames, but in this case I will be cheering for Sidney to get about 8 goals. Even if he gets no points, though, it will still be much better than the football mess. Since we are on the hockey topic, I don’t bet on the NHL much, but I think that the value in this game is with Pittsburgh (+120) in the first period. Calgary has not been starting strong recently, and Crosby’s presence has created a bit of a circus in town, so it is quite likely that they won’t jump off to a good start again. I also like Pittsburgh (+146) for the game including overtime, and that may make me a bad Flames fan.

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