KHL Korner 10.4.21

Now that’s what I’m talking about! There’s nothing better than waking up and checking your phone to see your early am bet hit, especially when you’ve been on a Lil’ cold snap like I have. Just a great start to a Monday. The Amur-Vityaz game was giving off serious OT vibes and the +310 odds were calling my name. Most importantly I took the advice of a friend (and a family of bears who just love to shit) and went with the less is more approach. I didn’t make a bunch of picks that ultimately end up canceling out and just picked one good value pick. That one brings me to 5-5 on the year and covers a little bit of the losses suffered early.

Mondays Results:

Amur 2 Vityaz 1 (SO)

Admiral 1 Dinamo Riga 2

Sibir 0 Torpedo 3

Avtomobilist 5 Avangard 2

Traktor 3 Jokerit 2 (SO)

cSKA 4 Kunlun Red Star 1

Amur and Traktor both with solid shootout victories. Dinamo Riga continues to look better than last year with a solid road win over Admiral. The reigning champs lose in a landslide to Avtomobilist and cSKA defeats the Bejing boys with ease 4-1. Torpedo with an impressive perforemance in Siberia blanking Sibir 3-0.

Now lets move on to Tuesday's slate:

Ak Bars Kazan v Dynamo Minsk 12pm EST

Ak Bars is one of the better teams in this league and on paper should beat Minsk. But the Buffalo from Belarus have been heating up lately absolutely dismantling Sochi 7-3 in Sochi on Sunday and winning 3 of last 4 firmly planting themselves as a middle of the pack team in the KHL. If I were forced to make a pick on this game I would most likely go with Minsk +1.5 -135. If I was feelin' a little dangerous I might go with Minsk ML +210. As I'm writing this the line is already moving to +1.5 -145 and ML +195.

SKA v Lokomotiv Yaroslavl 12:30pm EST

Lokomotivs impressive play under new coach Igor Nikitin continued on Sunday beating Barys 4-3. SKA is coming off of a win at home over Neftekhimik but I expect the rail men to win against a youthful SKA squad. Not taking any action on this one but if I were I like Lokomotiv ML +110.

Sochi v Salavat Yulaev Ufa 12:30pm EST

On paper this one seems like a blowout but we shall see. Ufa is just a better hockey team at the end of the day. This is my only official pick and it is Ufa -1.5 +100.

Spartak v Metallurg 12:30pm EST

The top dogs of the Eastern Conference square off with a red hot Spartak team with hopes of remaining up top the division. I think Metallurg wins this one. No action but again, if I had to I'd attack the value of Alt. Puckline -1.5 +195.

Let's have ourselves a day tomorrow eh?

TL;DR

Ufa -1.5 +100