Stars sign veteran D Lukowich, three others

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07/16/2010 - Frisco, TX (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Dallas Stars signed veteran defenseman Brad Lukowich and two others to one-year, two-way contracts on Friday.

Lukowich, 33, has registered 23 goals and 90 assists in 653 regular season NHL games with six teams. He returns to the Stars, where he spent parts of five seasons with the club from 1997-2002 and helped Dallas win the Stanley Cup in the 1998-99 campaign. Lukowich also won a Cup with Tampa Bay in the 2003-04 season.

Over 71 playoff contests, the blueliner has one goal and six points.

The Stars also agreed to terms with defenseman Trevor Ludwig and forward Raymond Sawada on one-year, two-way contracts, while defenseman Maxime Fortunus inked a two-year, two-way contract.

Fortunus, 26, skated eight games with the NHL club in 2009-10 and did not tally a point, while Ludwig, 25, a sixth-round selection of the Stars in the 2004 NHL Entry Draft, has no NHL experience. Sawada, a 24-year-old, saw action in five games for the Stars last year and did not register a point.

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Coaches and bettors alike are desperate to make sense of the new time-keeping rules on the NCAA gridiron. One of the big stories to come out of the Ohio State-Texas clash last weekend was Texas coach Mack Brown's criticism of the NCAA's new clock rules that are intended to shorten the duration of college football games, therefore affecting college football betting.

"They scored with six minutes left and the game was over before we had a chance to do anything," Brown told ESPN.com. "I really hope whoever made these changes will go back and look them over."

Sure, it might be sour grapes; the Buckeyes thoroughly trounced the defending national champion Longhorns 24-7. However, Brown isn't alone in giving the changes their due thought. Bettors are also wondering about them, albeit for a completely different reason. Most experts agree that the changes will result in games being shortened by anywhere from 10 to 20 plays. The obvious consequence is lower scores, with more time rolling off the clock during changes of possession. (The Ohio State-Texas game flew well under the total of 52.)

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As a result, teams combined to gain an average of about 100 fewer yards a game last weekend versus the 2005 openers. Scoring was also down by about 4.5 points (attention Las Vegas sports lines).

Of course, oddsmakers were able to adjust to the changes before the season started. Proof of that came as the over went a balanced 8-9 at My Sportsbook on Saturday.

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*UPDATE* - Sept. 25, 2007

New Clock Rules Boon for online bookmakers

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