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| Sport | Game Selection | Game Time |
|---|---|---|
| NHL | (5) Anaheim Ducks at (6) Toronto Maple Leafs | 7:07pm EDT - Mar 12/2026 |
The PLAY: Anaheim Ducks -110
The Maple Leafs are strictly fade material at this point of the season. Their one-time optimism shattered by an eight-game losing streak, their longest since the 2014-15 season.
You have to go all the way back to Feb. 3 to find out when Toronto last won. During this eight-game losing streak, the Maple Leafs are averaging 1.8 goals, while surrendering an average of 4.3 goals. Toronto team captain and supposed star Auston Matthews has not scored a goal in 12 straight games.
Anaheim, by contrast, is having a banner season and is hot. The Ducks are leading the Pacific Division. They are 8-2 in their last 10 games. The Ducks have scored four or more goals in seven of their last 10 games. They just defeated Winnipeg, 4-1, on the road two days ago.
The oddsmaker is putting way too much stock in Toronto being at home. The Maple Leafs have dropped eight consecutive home games.
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Consultant Bio
Stephen Nover is unique among professional handicappers. A multiple award-winning sportswriter for numerous newspapers, including the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Nover has one the best combinations of gambling and media sources in the world.
The author of two sports gambling books, "Las Vegas Sports Beat" and "Sports Gaming Beat", along with a book on fantasy football titled, "Winning Fantasy Football", Nover is a former professor at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas having taught a football handicapping class there. He also was the co-host of the Sunday night sports betting radio show "The Stardust Line" during the 1990's.
Parlaying nearly 50 years worth of professional gambling experience with tremendous knowledge of the players through elite deep-roster Rotisserie leagues and building on copious gaming and media sources - having worked for newspapers in the Midwest, South and West and also for legendary Hall of Fame oddsmaker Roxy Roxborough - Nover is a true Las Vegas wise guy. He helped learn his craft from such masters as Roxborough, Dave Malinsky, Lem Banker and Russ Culver.
Part of what makes Nover so special is the pride he takes in writing his deep-dive analysis, which always is unique, well-researched and sometimes entails out-of-the-box thinking.