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06/23/2010 - Las Vegas, NV (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Phoenix Coyotes captain Shane Doan won the 2010 King Clancy Memorial Trophy, which honors a player deemed to best exemplify leadership qualities both on and off the ice.
Doan posted 18 goals and 25 points in 82 regular-season games for Phoenix in 2009-10, his 13th campaign with the Coyotes and 14th with the franchise, that was previously known as the Winnipeg Jets.
The 33-year-old Alberta native has been a consistent presence in the Valley of the Sun since arriving in 1996, assisting the Coyotes franchise in their charitable efforts as well as overseeing his own charities.
Penguins captain Sidney Crosby was the runner-up for the award, which has been presented annually since 1988.
Ethan Moreau of the Edmonton Oilers won the award last season.
<< Miller takes home Vezina Trophy
Las Vegas, NV (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Buffalo Sabres goaltender Ryan Miller took
home the silver for the Vezina Trophy as the NHL's top goaltender in 2009-10.
Miller, a Michigan State product, finished last season with a 41-18-8 record
with
<< Coyotes' Tippett wins Jack Adams Award
Las Vegas, NV (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Phoenix Coyotes bench boss Dave Tippett won
the 2010 Jack Adams Award, which is given annually to the NHL head coach
judged to have contributed the most to his team's success.
Tippett guided the Coyot
<< Ovechkin takes home Ted Lindsay Award
Las Vegas, NV (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Washington Capitals star forward Alex
Ovechkin took home the Ted Lindsay Award as the best player in the NHL as
voted by members of the NHL players association.
Ovechkin, 24, finished his fifth
<< Datsyuk again selected as Selke winner
Las Vegas, NV (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - For the third consecutive season, Detroit
Red Wings forward Pavel Datsyuk took home the Selke Trophy as the top
defensive forward in the NHL.
Datsyuk completed his eighth NHL season by posting 2
Jutanugarn wins first-round match at Women's Public Links >>
South Bend, IN (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Stroke-play medalist Ariya Jutanugarn and
Kimberly Kim, last year's runner-up, both won their first-round matches
Wednesday at the U.S. Women's Amateur Public Links Championship.
Jutanugarn, the to
Blackhawks' Keith takes home Norris Trophy >>
Las Vegas, NV (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Chicago Blackhawks defenseman Duncan Keith
won the 2010 Norris Trophy, which is given to the defenseman voted to display
the best all-around talent in the NHL.
Keith, a five-year veteran, finished last
Sexual assault accusation against Mets' Santana thrown out >>
Flushing, NY (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - New York Mets pitcher Johan Santana released
a statement Wednesday, confirming he was cleared in a sexual battery case from
last October.
A document dated January 19, 2010 from the sheriff's office in Le
Sedin wins Hart Trophy as league MVP >>
Las Vegas, NV (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Vancouver Canucks forward Henrik Sedin took
home hockey's top honor, the Hart Memorial Trophy, as the player judged to be
the most valuable to his team for the 2009-10 season.
Sedin, part of a tandem with
Michael Vick is back, Brett Favre isn't and the NFC East remains the best division in the NFC, maybe in all of football.
As players start to gather for the start of another season, some things change and some stay the same in the world of the NFL.
The NFC East has been the dominant division in the National Conference for a while, despite limited playoff success, save for the New York Giants surprise Super Bowl win two seasons ago.
Hell, there's a generation of kids in Texas who have never seen the Cowboys win a playoff game (last win was in 1996).
But collectively, the Giants, Eagles, Cowboys and Redskins (well, maybe not so much the Redskins) are as good as a division gets in an NFC conference that has struggled to stay competitive with the AFC side.
Sports bettors have both acknowledged the NFC East's dominance, as one glance at the NFL future odds menu will show.
Looking over the NFL betting odds at online sports book MySportsbook.com we see the top three teams listed to win the NFC Championship are all from the NFC East:
Dallas Cowboys - 7 - 1
Philadelphia Eagles - 13 - 2
New York Giants - 9 - 2
Slotting in behind these three are two teams from the NFC North: the Minnesota Vikings (15-2) and the Chicago Bears (10-1).
Again, despite the lack of recent playoff success, the Dallas Cowboys are popular with the sports betting community, as they hold 14% of all the money wagered on who will win the NFC Championship.
So far, the New York Giants are the bettors' favorite to represent their conference in the Super Bowl, as they have 24% of the overall NFC Championship betting volume.
And what about the Philadelphia Eagles? For the most part, the Eagles had a very productive offseason, the kind that could bring them back to the top.
They had a good draft adding the likes of WR Jeremy Maclin and RB LeSean McCoy.
Unfortunately, the team received a blow when long-time defensive coordinator Jim Johnson passed away on Tuesday.
But this team will make a real run at the division title this year. Going into the regular season, Philly is listed at +240 to win the division.
Last season the Eagles were 9-6-1 SU and 10-6 ATS.
Teams from the NFC East will play teams from the AFC West in the regular season and the Eagles haven't really been a good bet in the last 20 games against the likes of San Diego, Oakland, K.C. and Denver, only going 8-12 ATS.
Two seasons removed from that Super Bowl title, the New York Giants see themselves listed as the odds-on favorite in NFC East championship futures at +162.
Plaxico Burress is gone and with him all the bad publicity surrounding the gun in the sweatpants incident, but can they replace him in the offense?
Last season the Giants were a very reliable bet going 12-4 ATS.
In the Giants' last 20 games against fellow teams from the NFC East; they are 13-7 ATS.
Dallas is listed at +240 to win the division.
Dallas went 9-7 SU and 7-9 ATS last season and with the amount of talent the Cowboys have, a similar performance won't do.
The Cowboys have been atrocious against divisional rivals, going 6-14 ATS in their last 20.
The Washington Redskins are longshots to win the division at +550.
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