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The new NHL season is upon and fans are eager to watch their favorite players battle it out on the rink. New coaches and players from the just-ended trade will also add to the excitement. The unpredictability of ice hockey matches is also part of the fun.
However, if you like placing bets, trying to predict the scores can be a fun challenge. The pay can be good if you get the predictions right. However, predicting ice hockey scores isn't as easy as it may look on paper.
Here are some essential tips to help you navigate the different aspects of predicting ice hockey scores.
Understand the Game’s Basics
Knowing the rules, player formations, and positions is crucial. The internet can help you learn more about the game if you are a new ice hockey fan. Look for YouTube videos that break down ice hockey matches and familiarize yourself with different aspects of the games.
This information will help you learn how players can affect game states. For example, power players can help the team with numerical advantage tilt the score to their favor or mount a comeback.
Leverage Data and Stats
Looking through stats isn't pleasing, especially if you are not a math person. However, the numbers don't lie. Past matches and H2H records can help you when predicting ice hockey scores. Pay close attention to stats related to power-play efficiency, goals scored, and shots on goal.
Also, explore individual player stats. There, you will learn about player form and who you should watch out for. A team with a formidable attack will score lots of goals. However, goaltenders with high save percentages can make it tough for opposition players in front of goal.
Analyze Team Form
How is the team performing? Have they won their past five matches? These stats are good for identifying team form. Teams going through a bad patch will most likely ship in more goals. Sometimes, a change in management can spark team form and propel them into a winning streak.
Also, look for team news on The Sports Prophets website before match day. This will help you know which players are missing through injuries or suspensions. A star forward missing could signal fewer goals scored in the match.
Combine Different Approaches
Combining different approaches will help you become better at predicting ice hockey scores. Use stats, player form, and intuition to make informed predictions. Remember, the probability of predicting the correct score is low.
However, don’t get frustrated when you get it wrong. Make it more of a fun adventure rather than a gambling contest. You can leverage the power of statistical models, but their predictions can sometimes be way off the mark.
Wrapping Up
Learning how to predict ice hockey scores will take time. However, you can get better by using the skills mentioned in this guide. Get views from your friends and other ice hockey fans from various social media forums for a different perspective.
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LESSON #1: MEMORIES ARE AS IRREGULAR AS LIFE ITSELF– Ask any pair of people in a long-term relationship about memories and they’ll tell you how they rise and recede in one’s mind at any time. The callbacks and triggers are random. Some are slow and methodical and others anxiously sting like thunderclaps. Their tangents ebb and flow between happiness and sadness like life itself where the memories emanated from. The endlessly romantic new A24 film We Live in Time recognizes that irregularity and saunters from one waltzing memory to another across a decade’s span of one passionate relationship.
Two-time Best Actor Oscar nominee Andrew Garfield (in his first film role since his 2021 triple-header of The Eye of Tammy Faye, tick, tick…BOOM!, and Spider-Man: No Way Home) plays Tobias Durand, a business rep for Weetabix Limited as plain and regular as the products he shills. His significant other is fellow Academy Award nominee Florence Pugh’s spirited top-shelf modern Bavarian chef Almut Brühl. We Live in Time introduces them within their domestic home lives on the English countryside sharing a lovely daughter named Ella (Grace Delaney) only for their bliss to broken by a bout of stomach pain for Almut. An ensuing doctor’s appointment reveals the return of Stage 3 ovarian cancer in the form of a tumor too large to remove with ordinary surgery.
This jarring news arrives very early in the film, skipping many traditional steps for viewers still coming to know Tobias and Almut. Emulating that aforementioned randomness of recall, We Live in Time is intentionally presented in a non-periodic fashion which, after this opening’s perilous development, takes some acclimation time to absorb. Before long, a keen viewer will spot the setting, makeup, and costuming cues that inform when and where the film’s scenes fit together into place. To some, this plot construction could be seen as a gimmick of shortcuts to hide missing breadth or incomplete stamina, which is not the case. Rather, the unbound narrative creates an artful mystery that reinforces the amorous bond between Pugh and Garfield that only grows thicker with every shared scene. Nevertheless, a patience for satisfaction and culmination is both necessary and welcome.
LESSON #2: SHARING EACH OTHER’S HIGH AND LOWS– Liken this serpentine route through life taken by We Live in Time as piece of hooped embroidery made by two threads of different fibers. The beautiful front-facing side was completed one stitch at a time and not in a top-to-bottom sequence. Turning the hoop over reveals the unseen and erratic hops, skips, and jumps between elements and colors. In We Live in Time, its stitched history of knots are made by divorce, courtship, elation, arguments, grand gestures, pregnancy battles, gut punches, parenting woes, and professional successes and failures—all entirely shared by our central couple with grace, humor, vigor, and devotion.
Once again, it would be easy to see We Live in Time as a scheme cherry-picking only the key highest and lowest moments of its romance and scrambling them for the sake of a guessing game. Brooklyn director John Crowley, working from a screenplay by Tony Award-nominated playwright Nick Payne, indeed circles We Live in Time around to present common cornerstones like the Meet Cute, a baby delivery, and more. However, the real dramatic enchantment is how Payne and the slight score from Sing Sing composer Bryce Dessner surround those core memories with, persistently, the less showy parts of life that make up the scrambled back of the embroidery. The bulk of those complementary scenes boil down to another part of the human condition as irregular as memories.
LESSON #3: THE DICHOTOMY OF CONSIDERATIONS AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS– All of life’s peaks and valleys start with questions of consideration. Long-term relationships, such as the one between Almut and Tobias in We Live in Time, sit within and act on all sorts of possible sliding door decisions and then face the dichotomies found in their resulting implications. There are the choices you take and the ones you don’t. There are small considerations that can be readily answered and other larger or sterner considerations that cannot be finalized so easily. While many decision points shown in the film are extremely relatable on many levels, the full gamut of the considerations is still unique to this on-screen partnership.
Taken altogether, We Live in Time becomes a cherished journey of two committed lovers talking out and feeling out those many considerations of life, starting with Almut and Tobias weighing the debate between quality-versus-quantity options for this latest recurrence of cancer. There’s a spoken thought to have six resigned but amazing months free of medical interventions or twelve miserable months of chemotherapy, since both could lead to the same possible grim conclusion. Every decision of consequence branches from there, like if it’s finally time to get married or how do they go about telling their innocent child one of their parents is dying. Thanks to the nonlinear flow, none of it transpires in a simple fashion, and, goodness gracious, tissues are an absolute must for this crusher.
LESSON #4: THE BEAUTY AND POWER OF SUPPORTIVE PARTNERS– Going through this heartbreaking ordeal, you fall in love with these two characters not only in the big moments of rapture, of which there are plenty, but in those little ones where it’s simply the two of them finding their unity and initiative to move forward. After all, true partners are found in honest talk more than pillow talk. Goddamn, the way Andrew Garfield looks at Florence Pugh is simply everything in We Live in Time. Prepare for the GIFs and memes of his expressions setting hearts aflutter, only to see them matched by Florence’s knee-weakening, sparkling, and smirking responses given in return. Messy and loyal, confident but vulnerable–matching the movie itself— they are what loving supportiveness and perfect, alluring endearment look like.
Derived directly from the gambling term, the topmost social commentary terrain of Bad Genius is the “high-stakes testing” which has infiltrated nearly every level of the United States education system, including, at the very top, the norm-referenced SAT college admissions test taken by an average of two million students a year. When 96% of the $700 million standardized test market is controlled by four publishing or scoring companies, any noble intentions for honest and helpful data for students and educators are often lost to lucrative business interests. If you think nine figures is a big number, try eleven. The test prep industry to prepare students for those monstrous exams is valued at nearly $50 billion, a figure higher than the GDP of half the countries in world.
Talk about throwing money at a problem. Alas, there’s a level of Bad Genius that takes a page from All the President’s Men to “follow the money.” Let’s do the same for a moment. Specific SAT prep courses–all to take a $68 dollar test–can cost anywhere from a $50 self-guided book to thousands of dollars of in-person courses or one-on-one tutoring. Considering the high bars of admittance scores to get into the top colleges, a few points here or there can sway hundreds or thousands of dollars and break a family’s back trying to earn scholarship assistance for skyrocketing tuition costs.
LESSON #1: WHAT’S IT WORTH TO YOU?-- Those make-or-break implications call to mind the question of this lesson. How much money is one willing to throw at this problem to improve their standing and extend their ladder of higher education towards a perceived greater success in life? How many of the troubling consquences of the high-stakes testing gauntlet does one weigh right alongside the financial hits? Maybe and most curiously, if you can’t afford the price or handle the woes, what corners are you willing to cut? If any of these thoughts stress you out right now, imagine being a teenager trying to shoulder them. Now you’ve found the mindset of Bad Genius, an American remake of a celebrated 2017 Thai film of the same name.
The main protagonist of the movie is the disciplined introvert Mei Ling, who goes by the more American-friendly name of Lynn Kang. Played as a brilliant high schooler by Tell Me Everything’s Callina Liang in a driven performance, Lynn has gotten farther than her over-proud, lowly laundromat owner father (the cast’s biggest name of Benedict Wong from the Marvel Cinematic Universe) and deceased mother could have every dreamed of. Her impressive aptitude and–more blatantly–her demographic box-checking status as an Asian score her a full-ride to the fictitious and prestigious Exton Pacific School in the Seattle area. There, she befriends Bank (a very compelling Bel-Air star Jabari Banks), a fellow token minority savant, and orbits a bevy of rich white kids on fast tracks to college.
One of those privileged and popular teens, Grace (Taylor Hickson of Freeform’s Motherland: Fort Salem), strikes up a positive friendship with Lynn. Sure enough, a semi-cliched by-product of being so financially comfortable is that students like Grace, her boyfriend Pat (Samuel Braun of The Hallmark Channel’s The Way Home), and several others slack on their academics and sink precariously close to flunking out of Exton, which would upset the apple carts of high parental expectations at their mansion homes.
LESSON #2: WHO WOULD HELP A FRIEND CHEAT AND WHY– On one particular widowmaker exam, Grace is unprepared and drowning to the point where the straight arrow Lynn pities her and reluctantly passes her friend a slew of answers to get by. Like any little white lie or victimless crime, once it happens once, it’s easier to execute again, especially if it keeps a wallflower like Lynn in good standing with the only crowd that’s ever given her attention. Besides, Exton and its flatterer headmaster (Sarah-Jane Redmond of Millenium) would never suspect their multicultural poster child becoming the ringleader of a cheating ring.
LESSOn #2: USE WHAT YOUR GOOD AT TO GET WHAT YOU NEED– Soon enough, Pat turns this into a business proposition for Lynn. She devises a technique of coded finger signals matching piano chord combinations. For Lynn, this is using what she’s good at to get what she needs, which is financial relief for her father at home and squirreling away money to make the big move to New York City for college. The big white whale score on the horizon is the vaunted SAT, billed in Bad Genius as the most secure test in the world. That scheme requires a far more elaborate plan and thicker bundles of cash for Lynn.
Risks in Bad Genius are sized-up constantly by the instantaneous computational internal monologue spoken in Lynn’s head through Liang’s narration. The peril of this peer group’s rule-breaking racket plays out very much like an edge-of-your seat heist movie. Intimidating camera placements controlled by cinematographer Brett Jutkiewicz (The Black Phone, Ready or Not) create the foundation of excellent tension. The villain, so to speak, our on-screen youths are staring down is not an authority figure adult, but the big bad test itself. Jutkiewicz’s shots are put into a kinetic vice of editing by fellow thriller specialist Franklin Peterson (Fair Play) with a steady, unnerving musical score from the Navalny pair of Marius De Vries and Matt Robertson.
All of these traits of Bad Genius’s aesthetic jolts the audience’s blood pressure while being locked, more often than not, into generic classroom seats made all the more confining by the threats at hand. Matching the heist subgenre, it’s only a matter of time before all the money gets noticed and someone squeals, turns on a friend, feels guilty, or gets caught entirely. What pushes back against those typical pitfall tropes is the spine of youthful righteousness crafted by the Luce creative team of director J.C. Lee and co-writer Julius Onah. This is their second outstanding and frighteningly intense teen-scene banger in a row.
LESSON #3: EMPOWERING YOUR OWN FUTURE BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY– Despite so many settings demanding quiet for test-taking, Bad Genius still chooses stumps with plenty of anti-establishment aims to shout about. As Lynn and her classmates come to see it, their attitude is to determine their own futures themselves, especially with the rank socioeconomic and ethnic divisions present between the mix of united people. They don’t want a test to outweigh their own merits and perceived hard work. In their eyes, they deserve the competitive advantages they are bending the rules to seize, and that’s a tantalizing tightrope to watch being walked in this movie.
