Vegas Odds 4/27/09

So, my Vegas preamble to an amazing Coachella Music Festival yielded some interesting preliminary impressions about pucks in the first city of sin.  In a nutshell, hockey (and playoff hockey at that) emerges well south of the end-of-the-regular-season NBA to the grizzled chops running the books.  No problem.  When I wasn’t double dinnering and crushing the house at PaiGow, I still spent some quality time in 4 books over the course of two nights.  While the Mirage was excellent (the entire renovation was very well done, btw), it was the Wynn that had absolutely the best set up and was the hockey-friendliest I found.  And many thanks to those who rec’d Firefly for chow—outstanding tapas and killer sangria helped drown my post-game 1.  I would submit that on Thursday night, Lotus of Siam—well off the strip in a blank strip mall facing away from the street–was even better…a top 3 Thai experience for me.  Authentic, superb, and cheap.

On to the odds.  Much has changed in the last two weeks, but Vegas of course still loves the B’s and the Wings.  Some new favorites have emerged however, with our pals from the end of the PA turnpike looking like they’re back to form.  Nuts to you Bill Guerin.

Why is it small comfort that Vegas again frowns on the Rags?