MLS Opening weekend [B]Kansas City +0.5 –125[/B] I think this is kind of a make or break year with the Wizards. They are coming of a fairly good season last year where they just missed out on a playoff spot. This season they changed their name and our moving into a new stadium this summer. With the expansion teams coming into the league they were moved from the tougher Western Conference to the easier Eastern Conference. Last season they signed Omar Bravo who had several stellar seasons in Mexico. This team has a lot more fire power this season so they should be able to score a few more goals which have been a huge problem for this team the past few seasons. Chivas lost a lot of players last season and stumbled to one of their worst seasons ever. This season they brought in several new players. Many of them aging players far past their peek along with some unproven new comers. Chivas USA comes into the opener with a midfield group depleted by injuries. Paulo Nagamura, Blair Gavin and Mike Lahoud are all likely to miss the season opener, and Simon Elliott is questionable. Throw in the fact that this team did not perform very well in the exhibition season and have a rookie coach. It may take them a while to gel. [B]Vancouver UNDER 2 and 2.5 (-116)[/B] Toronto has always struggled on the road and I we should see the struggles continue once again this season. This team got rid of a lot of their veteran players and none of the players brought in are anything special. Team leader Dwayne De Rosario is unhappy with is contract and has threatened to sit out the opener. This team also has a new coach and a new system so I expect it to take a while for them to all get on the same page. These teams met twice every year in the Nutrilite Canadian Championship and Toronto has failed to score a goal in the last three games in this series. Vancouver had the #1 overall pick in the MLS draft and used it on 17-year-old Mexican-American striker Omar Salgado who will not be eligible to play until late in the season. They traded away a lot of their draft picks this season for allocation money, slots and future picks. The defense looks to be the strong point of this club headlined by U.S. World Cup starter Jay DeMerit. However the front line looks to be the weakness on this team with no proven goal scorers. The only MLS-proven forward currently under contract is Atiba Harris, who really is more of a left winger than a striker. The last three games between these teams have all been 0-0 draws and I would expect to see another low scoring game once again.