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NHL - Ottawa Senators at Carolina Hurricanes

Friday's Free Play is the total and Over 6.5 as the Sens and Canes take the ice. Canes have won 5 straight at home and have done it via putting the puck into the net averaging 4.4 GPG. The Over has gone 6-3-1 the past 10 Canes games. Senators Overs have gone a decent 6-4 past 10 but they've dropped 7 of 10 on the road and allowed 4.86 GPG over those 7 losses. We'll look for some goals tonight to put it over this number.

The Free Play is Over 6.5 -108

Alexander Hernandez (10-1) vs Donald Cerrone (34-11)

The MGM Grand in Las Vegas is the venue this weekend for one of the legends of boxing in Manny Pacquiao as he takes on one of the most outspoken fighters in boxing today in Adrien Broner for the relatively meaningless WBA regular strap on Saturday night.

This is a high line at -290, but a fight we'll be personally invested in on Manny Pacquiao, even at 40 years of age, as he's simply levels above a faded Adrien Broner. 

For those new to boxing, Broner was a Mayweather protege a few years ago and one of the most highly touted fighters coming up before his shock loss to Marcos Maidana back in 2013. From that point on it was all pretty much downhill for "The Can Man" as despite his skills and obvious talent, his dedication to the game was always questionable, leading him and Mayweather to part ways and Broner to go into a tailspin. Since then, Broner has been outclassed by a great fighter in Shawn Porter, involved in a life or death split decision against fringe contender Adrian Granados and has a loss and a draw against Mikey Garcia and Jessie Vargas respectively in his last two fights (a fight we had Vargas winning). 

We were at Pacquiao's last fight in Kuala Lumper against feared puncher Lucas Matthysse and it was a vintage Pacquiao performance from start to finish. His foot speed and hand speed had Matthysse down multiple times in the early rounds before finally finishing him in round 7. We see the same thing happening against Adrien Broner, as while Broner does possess great upper body defense, he is totally lacking in footspeed and will be picked apart from the outside by Pacquiao's fast combinations.

For those looking for extra value, a possible Pacquiao by KO +230 is available at some books, but for us, with Pacquiao only getting one stoppage in the last 10 years, although it did come in his last fight, we're happy with just the outright win here as Broner's long list of parties, felony assault charges and DUI's have finally caught up to him and this version of Broner is unfortunately a shadow of the fighter he once was back in 2012/2013.

Take the Pacman to add another win to his outstanding career on Saturday night with a victory over Adrien Broner at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.

PLAY: MANNY PACQUIAO ML -290