Morning Coffee: Recapping A Monster Weekend For NBA, NHL Chalk

The first two days of the NBA playoffs are in the books.

If the rest of the postseason is anything like what we got on Saturday and Sunday, it’s going to be a treat.

Game 1 between the Boston Celtics and Brooklyn Nets felt more like Game 7 of the Eastern Conference Finals than a series opener.

Despite a relatively weak performance by Kevin Durant by his ridiculous standards, the Nets nearly pulled out the victory in Boston before Jayson Tatum came to the rescue with an epic buzzer-beater that anybody who bet on the Celtics to win had to be as thrilled about as the crowd at TD Garden.

If you bet on the NBA favourites to win straight up on Sunday, you couldn’t lose.

It was a similar story in the NHL over the weekend, as the chalk delivered big time on Saturday and Sunday. 

Here’s the TSN EDGE Morning Coffee for Monday, April 18th, 2022.

NBA Favourites Roll In Playoff Openers

If you bet the chalk straight up in the NBA and NHL on Saturday and Sunday, it was a great weekend.

NBA favourites went 4-0 straight up on Sunday to improve to 7-1 SU so far in these playoffs.

Meanwhile, NHL favourites followed up an incredible 14-0 sweep on Saturday by going 4-1 on Sunday.

Unfortunately for fans of Canada’s basketball team, the Toronto Raptors were the victim of a big weekend for NBA chalk.

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The Philadelphia 76ers beat the Raptors 131-111 in Game 1 Saturday night.

A 20-point loss to Philadelphia in a game in which Joel Embiid was held to 19 points on 5-of-15 from the floor is one thing. 

Factor in the potential losses of Scottie Barnes, Thad Young and Gary Trent Jr. for Game 2, and it’s easy to understand the significant adjustment that we saw to the series prices at FanDuel Sportsbook. 

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