Coyotes welcome Kings for home-and-home finale

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12/27/2008 - (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Phoenix Coyotes will aim for a home-and-home sweep of the Los Angeles Kings when they host the finale tonight at Jobing.com Arena.

The series between these Pacific Division foes began in Los Angeles on Friday and the Coyotes were able to notch a close victory in that contest. The win ended a two-game slide for Phoenix.

Shane Doan's power-play marker in the late stages of the second period proved to be the game-winner and lifted the Coyotes to a 2-1 win over the Kings at the Staples Center.

Doan also set up Peter Mueller in the first period, while Ilya Bryzgalov was sensational between the pipes for Phoenix, stopping 24 shots for the Coyotes.

Doan has had great success against the Kings in his career, posting 56 points (22 goals, 34 assists) in 66 career outings against LA. Bryzgalov has also feasted on the Kings with an 8-2-1 record in 12 lifetime games against Los Angeles.

Peter Harrold found the back of the net for Los Angeles, which has dropped five of its last six games. Jonathan Quick was solid for the Kings, making 24 saves.

The Coyotes are currently tied with Anaheim for a distant second place in the Pacific Division. San Jose is leading the division with 57 points, while Phoenix and the Ducks each have 39 points.

The Kings, meanwhile, are fourth in the Pacific with 34 points.

Phoenix is 2-0 against the Kings this year and has won eight of the last 10 meetings in the series. LA has also struggled mightily in the desert, losing seven of eight and 11 of its last 13 trips to Phoenix.

The Coyotes are 11-4-2 as the host this season, while the Kings are just 4-8-0 as the visiting club.

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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.

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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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