{"id":548619,"date":"2026-03-18T15:29:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T15:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/548619\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T15:29:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T15:29:11","slug":"raptors-upset-win-surprises-many-proline-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/548619\/","title":{"rendered":"Raptors\u2019 upset win surprises many Proline players"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\tBy The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe Canadian Press\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tPosted March 18, 2026 10:44 am\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t1 min read\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>The Toronto Raptors threw a majority of sports bettors off Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Toronto upset Eastern Conference-leading Detroit 119-108 at Scotiabank Arena. Brandon Ingram had a game-high 34 points as the Raptors not only earned a second straight victory but also handed the Pistons their first loss in four games.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp., only 21 per cent of Proline bettors took Toronto to win, although 55 per cent of bets were on the Raptors +3.5 on the point spread.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tRelated Videos\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-video__image\" alt=\"Click to play video: 'Catching up on Canada\u2019s big sports moments'\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/ONLINEGNMMONDANBERLINSTILL.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"   data-\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t5:33<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCatching up on Canada\u2019s big sports moments\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\tPrevious Video<\/p>\n<p>\t\tNext Video<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>A much stronger bet for Proline players was the Ottawa Senators\u2019 2-0 win over the Vancouver Canucks as James Reimer stopped 16 saves for his 32nd career shutout. A solid 88 per cent of the money was on Ottawa earning the road victory.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/national.jpg\" alt=\"Get daily Canada news delivered to your inbox so you'll never miss the day's top stories.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet daily National news<\/p>\n<p>Get daily Canada news delivered to your inbox so you&#8217;ll never miss the day&#8217;s top stories.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday night, the Montreal Canadiens beat the Toronto Maple Leafs 3-1, a result that 76 per cent of players backed. Later, the Buffalo Sabres earned a 3-2 shootout win over Toronto, with 84 per cent of bettors supporting.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore on Sports<br \/>\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, in golf, Cameron Young won The Players Championship by a stroke. He was the ninth-most bet-on golfer to capture the event.<\/p>\n<p>A retail player won $4,114.10 from a $1 bet on a 14-leg NHL parlay while another earned $3,636.10 from a $5 wager on a seven-leg parlay.<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published March 17, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2026 The Canadian Press\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By The Canadian Press The Canadian Press Posted March 18, 2026 10:44 am 1 min read Descrease article&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":548620,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,726,3927,109864,3915,10109,25054,590,575,271437,6597,271438,63716,271439,85,17602,2371,109865,109866],"class_list":["post-548619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-canucks","tag-canucks-hockey","tag-hockey","tag-national-basketball-association","tag-national-hockey-league","tag-nba","tag-nhl","tag-ottawa-hockey","tag-ottawa-senators","tag-ottawa-sports","tag-senators","tag-senators-hockey","tag-sports","tag-toronto-raptors","tag-vancouver-canucks","tag-vancouver-hockey","tag-vancouver-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/548620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}