CDL Season Preview Series: Introduction
September 6, 2011 Leave a comment
The Cycle Down Low Season Preview is a feature where we look at the chances for your favourite team in the 2011-2012 NHL campaign. AND WE’RE GOING TO VEGAS! With the new season upon us, a mere 30 days away, the CDL Season Preview Series will take you right up to game one of the new season. Is this the year they surprise everyone and take the Cup? Are the great expectations placed upon them too much? Here you’ll get the scoop on what is to come for every team from both the Eastern and Western Conferences.
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As the introduction says, this year at Cycle Down Low, we’re going to try something a bit different — and bite a bit off of world renowned Puck Daddy’s season preview style — by throwing together a theme for this years season preview. The theme? Vegas and gambling.
Listen, we’ve all done it; you’re sitting around a table, you’re talking with a few of your friends, and someone makes an outrageous statement: “I guarantee you that this season, Lubos Bartecko is going to be an all-star! At least 45 goals!”* or, ”THIS is the year Jamie Storr goes off for 40 wins. He’s going to do what Gretzky couldn’t and carry the Kings to a Cup, baby!”**
In those crazy bets, those outrageous statements, we are going to break down the league from bottom to top by the Stanley Cup futures odds that Bodog.ca has set up this season.
For those unfamiliar, a futures bet is a wager placed on an event that is going to be coming up in the future (Crazy, right?). Often times these bets encompass all things pertaining to championships — in regards to hockey it would be division winners, conference winners, Presidents’ Trophy, and the Stanley Cup — and can also include things such as: final point leader, final goal leader, who will win which trophy, etc.
You can go to Bodog.ca to view the order or, better yet, visit Cycle Down Low each of the next thirty days as we break down the odds.
So, without further ado, Cycle Down Low is proud to present the NHL Season Preview with sportsbook style.
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*No one has ever said this.
**Or this.
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