Oilers take road woes to Columbus

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02/22/2007 - (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Edmonton Oilers will try again for the first win on their current seven-game road trip this evening, when they travel to Columbus and the Nationwide Arena to battle the Blue Jackets.

The Oilers, who are 10-15-4 as the visitor this season, began their trek with a loss to Boston on February 13 and have since dropped games to Buffalo in overtime, Toronto and Ottawa.

Edmonton did mange to earn its second point of the swing when it fell to Ottawa, 4-3, in a shootout on Tuesday.

Petr Sykora scored twice and Tom Gilbert's first career goal tied the contest with 19.8 seconds to play for slumping Edmonton, while Jussi Markkanen allowed three goals on 34 shots in the loss.

Edmonton will travel to Detroit Friday and then wrap its trip Sunday against Minnesota. The Oilers' recent skid has dropped them into a tie with Colorado for last place in the Northwest standings and eight points out of a playoff spot.

The club remains without forward Fernando Pisani and Jarret Stoll, who are both sidelined with concussions. Both players have joined defenseman Daniel Tjarnqvist (groin) and forward Ethan Moreau (right shoulder surgery) on injured reserve.

Columbus is also a last-place club as it sits in the bottom of the Central standings, and was in action on Tuesday when it dropped a 5-4 decision to St. Louis in a shootout.

David Vyborny, Jason Chimera, Ron Hainsey and Rick Nash tallied goals and Fredrik Norrena ended with 31 saves for the Blue Jackets, who have dropped seven of their last nine.

Columbus is 14-14-3 at home this year, but will hit the road for a game on Saturday against the Rangers in New York.

The Oilers have taken two of three from Columbus this year and are 11-3-3 (11 wins, 3 ties, 3 losses,) in the last 17 meetings.

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Two playoff teams from 2007 take center stage on the NFL Network Sunday night in a Week 2 NFL betting match-up when the (0-1) New England Patriots betting head south to Florida for a contest with the (1-0) Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

New England HC Bill Belichick couldn’t care less about the way his team plays in the preseason. With a chance to tie last week’s game with the Baltimore Ravens betting, He elected to go for the two-point conversion and outright victory. The conversion failed, and the Pats ended up falling to the Ravens by a 16-15 final count.

New England rolled off twelve unanswered points to give it a chance at securing the victory, but it never threatened to cover the 3.5-point spread. NFL bettors saw this one coming, as they bet the Ravens down from +6 to +3.5 as the week progressed. QB Tom Brady didn’t take part in the Patriots first preseason clash, but could see action this weekend.

His three replacements all put up embarrassing numbers. They went a combined 17 for 33, and threw three interceptions and no touchdowns. The New England defense was encouraging, as they held the Ravens to 2/12 third down conversions and surrendered just ten first downs. That ‘D’ should be bolstered with the addition of former Bucs and Denver Broncos betting safety John Lynch, who could make his Patriots debut on Sunday against his former mates.

HC Jon Gruden had to be impressed with the way his Bucs played on both sides of the ball in their dominating 17-6 victory over the Miami Dolphins in Week 1’s NFL pre-season betting action. Bucs bettors were quite happy with the effort, as they made a mockery of the fact that they were underdogs in the game.

The logjam at the quarterback position didn’t get any easier to separate for Gruden, as all four of his QBs had positive experiences in the first exhibition of 2008. The four combined to complete 28 of their 40 passes for 204 yards and a touchdown, and that was without starting QB Jeff Garcia in the lineup.

RB Michael Bennett had 19 carries and four receptions, totaling 90 yards and a touchdown. Expect to see more of Bennett, Kenneth Darby, and Earnest Graham, as they all compete for playing time with Warrick Dunn in the backfield this season. Defensively, the Bucs recorded four sacks and held the Fins offense in check all day.

First round draft pick Aqib Talib was impressive in the secondary, recording a tackle and two pass defenses in his debut. Don’t be surprised to see Talib in the starting lineup opposite Ronde Barber for the Bucs in ’08.

The betting trends suggest that NFL bettors should be backing the Bucs in this intra-conference exhibition.

These two teams hooked up last year in Tampa Bay, with the Bucs winning that game 13-10. The Buccaneers have only lost one preseason game at home dating back to the beginning of the ’05 preseason. The Patriots have had a mixed bag of results in their recent exhibitions. They have gone 2-2 ATS and SU each of the last three years.

New England currently sits as modest 1-point favorites in this preseason showdown with the ‘total’ now sitting at 34.5.

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