CNOTES 2025 2026 NHL NEWS, BEST BETS, AND OPINION !

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Wednesday, March 18​

Game	Time(ET)	Pick	Units
NJ at NYR	07:00 PM	U 6.0*****	+500
PIT at CAR	07:00 PM	CAR -137 U 6.5*****	+500 +500
OTT at WAS	07:30 PM	OTT -127***** U 6.0*****	+500 +500
STL at CAL	09:30 PM	STL -122***** U 5.5*****	+500 +500
DAL at COL	09:30 PM	DAL +132***** O 6.5*****	+500 +500
PHI at ANA	10:00 PM	PHI +135***** O 6.5*****	+500 +500

 

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CNOTES NHL BEST BETS THRU MARCH !

03/18/2026................4 - 6 - 0................40.00%..................- 11.10
03/17/2026................5 - 7 - 0................41.66%..................- 11.30
03/16/2026................4 - 4 - 0................50.00%..................+ 3.80
03/15/2026................2 - 6 - 0................25.00%..................- 20.50
03/14/2026................6 - 8 - 2................42.57%..................- 10.10
03/13/2026................1 - 3 - 0................25.00%..................- 10.60
03/12/2026................5 -5 - 0.................50.00%..................+ 13.45
03/11/2026................3 - 1 - 0................75.00%..................+ 14.15
03/10/2026................4 - 9 - 1................30.76%...................- 26.10
03/09/2026................3 - 3 - 0................50.00%...................+ 4.60
03/08/2026................7 - 2 - 0................77.77%..................+ 26.90
03/07/2026................6 - 8 - 0................42.85%..................- 11.20
03/06/2026................4 - 4 - 0................50.00%..................+ 1.45
03/05/2026................5 - 5 - 0................50.00%..................- 1.75
03/04/2026................4 - 3 - 0................57.14%..................+ 6.45
03/03/2026................4 - 3 - 2................57.14%..................+ 4.75
03/02/2026................3 - 5 - 0................37.50%..................- 8.10
03/01/2026................2 - 6 - 0................25.00%..................- 13 .70

TOTALS...................72 - 86 - 2................45.56%...................- 47.15


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CNOTES NHL BEST BETS THRU JANUARY !

TOTALS.............116 - 105- 0..............52.48%................+ 139.55

CNOTES NHL BEST BETS THRU FEBRUARY !

TOTALS...................44 -69 - 0.............38.93%.............- 15.24

 

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Thursday’s 6-pack
Abraham Toro’s last six years in the major leagues:
2021- Astros/Mariners
2022- Mariners
2023- Brewers
2024- A’s
2025- Red Sox
2026- Royals

Quotes of the Day
“I’m an optimist by nature. So in baseball, to have things you can grab on to as you’re building, successes that you can be happy about, both individual and team when it’s not just about the major league team all the time — I missed all those things.”
Colorado Rockies’ president of baseball operations Paul DePodesta; he is the character Jonah Hill portrayed in Moneyball

Thursday’s quiz
Who is the only #1-seed who lost to a #16-seed in the NCAA Tournament?

Wednesday’s quiz
Dick Vitale coached the Detroit Pistons for 94 games from 1978-80, after he was 79-29 as a college coach at Detroit Mercy.

Tuesday’s quiz
In the movie Bull Durham, Robert Wuhl played the Bulls’ pitching coach.


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Thursday’s Den: Welcome to my two favorite days of the year​

— There are seven teams who are in the top 25 in both eFG% and eFG% defense, which is something national champs have done recently.
Arizona
Duke
Florida
Houston
Iowa State
Louisville (best player is hurt)
Michigan

— I’m picking Arizona to win the national championship this year; in four years with the Wildcats, Tommy Lloyd hasn’t gotten Arizona to the Elite 8, but I think they’ll win the title this time around.

— Miami OH 89, SMU 79
Miami wins play-in game, shuts lot of people up.
Redhawks were 16-41 on the arc, scored 1.34 ppp
SMU lost six of its last seven games.
Miami advances to play Tennessee on Friday

— Prairie View 67, Lehigh 55
Panthers win their eighth game in a row.
Three guys on Prairie View played the whole game.
Dontae Horne was 11-22 shooting, had no assists.
Prairie View advances to play Florida on Friday

— Queens, Cal Baptist are only teams in this year’s NCAA Tournament who are in the Field of 68 for the first time.

— No team that lost their first conference tournament game has ever won a national title, which is bad news for Alabama, Illinois, Michigan State, Nebraska.

— There are 13 teams in this year’s tournament who have a head coach who is in his first year at that school- that seems like a lot.

— Last year, all four #1-seeds made the Final Four, only the second time that happened.

— Famous birthdays, March 19th:
Ursula Andress, 91
Glenn Close, 79
Mike Norris, 71
Bruce Willis, 71
Andre Miller, 50
Steve Gleason, 49
Clayton Kershaw, 38
EJ Manuel, 36

— Philadelphia Eagles are trading a 7th-round draft pick in next year’s draft to Carolina for 38-year old QB Andy Dalton, who started seven games in three years for the Panthers.

Eagles already have Jalen Hurts, Tanner McKee in their QB room; Dalton gives them more of a veteran presence. The trade saves Carolina $2.1M in salary cap space in 2026 and $4M in cash.

— Shaquille O’Neal must still be making a boatload of money; he does a lot of commercials.
NIT games

— Wake Forest 82, Navy 72
Deacons shot 73.1% inside the arc.
Navy finished 26-8; they won the Patriot League regular season title.
Think Tim Duncan/David Robinson had a bet on this game?

— Dayton 80, Bradley 66
Flyers led 47-30 at halftime.
Dayton won eight of its last ten games

— Illinois State 79, Kent State 58
Redbirds led 45-25 at halftime.
Kent State shot 32.8% from the floor.

— George Washington 79, Utah Valley 78
George Washington led by 16 early in 2nd half, hung on for the win.
Next: George Washington plays New Mexico in Albuquerque Sunday.

— Nevada 89, Murray State 75
Wolf Pack shot 57.7% inside the arc.
Nevada was +10 (15-5) in turnovers.

— California 91, Ill-Chicago 73
Cal shot 15-28 on the arc, scored 1.28 ppp
Chris Bell scored 31 points, shot 7-8 on the arc.

— New Mexico 107, Sam Houston 83
Lobos shot 65% inside arc, scored 1.41 ppp.
New Mexico was +9 (14-5) in turnovers.

— St Joe’s 69, Colorado State 64
Derek Simpson scored 13 points, had 9 rebounds for the Hawks
St Joe’s moves on to play California in Berkeley Sunday.