Lightning vs Stars 9/28/20 - NHL Stanley Cup Finals Betting Picks & Odds
Tampa Bay Lightning vs. Dallas Stars
NHL: 8:00 PM EST
Sep. 28, 2020
TV: NBC
Latest Odds : TB -140 O/U 5
The Tampa Bay Lightning remain one win away from lifting the Stanley Cup after losing Game 5 of the best of seven series in double overtime to the Dallas Stars on Saturday night. Tampa Bay can win the NHL Stanley Cup finals with a victory on Monday in Game 6. Ondrej Palat scored Tampa Bay's first goal in the second period and Mikhail Sergachev added a second in the third. Andrei Vasilevskiy made 30 saves in goal for Tampa Bay in the loss.
Center Brayden Point is leading Tampa Bay in goals scored during the playoffs with 13, while right winger Nikita Kucherov is leading in assists with 26 and points with 33. Left winger Patrick Maroon has a team-high 32 penalty minutes. In goal, Andrei Vasilevskiy is 17-7 with a goals-against average of 1.97 and save percentage .925.
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Dallas was able to stave off elimination in Game 5 on Saturday and must do the same on Monday to force a deciding Game 7. The Stars opened the scoring in Game 5 late in the first with a goal by Corey Perry. Joe Pavelski scored in the third to send the game to overtime and Perry scored his second goal of the game 9:23 into the second overtime for the win. Anton Khudobin made 39 saves in net for the Stars.
Center Joe Pavelski is leading Dallas in goals scored with 13, while defenseman Miro Heiskanen is leading in assists with 20 and points with 26. Center Mattias Janmark has a team-high 38 penalty minutes. In goal, Anton Khudobin is 14-9 with a goals-against average of 2.72, save percentage of .917 and one shutout.
Recent Betting Trends:
Tampa Bay is 43-17 in it's last 60
The OVER has cashed in 16 of the Lightning’s last 27 versus Western Conference opponents
Dallas is 2-5 in its last 7 versus Atlantic division opponents
The OVER has cashed in 5 of the Stars last 8 versus Atlantic division opponents
Free Betting Pick: over 5
Dallas will defeat Tampa Bay on Monday in Game 6 to force a deciding Game 7, but the play here is the OVER. The OVER has cashed in 17 of the last 26 meetings between the two. In addition, the OVER has cashed in four of Dallas's last seven versus an opponent from the Eastern Conference and in 16 of the last 27 for Tampa Bay against Western Conference opponents. Final Score Prediction, Dallas Stars win but our best play is OVER 4-3