The Philadelphia Flyers (2-0-0) and Tampa Bay Lightning (1-2-0) clash Tuesday. Puck drop from Amalie Arena is at 7 p.m. ET (ESPN). Below, we analyze Tipico Sportsbook’s lines around the Flyers vs. Lightning odds, and make our expert NHL picks and predictions.
Philadelphia is on the road for the 1st time this season after clocking home wins over the New Jersey Devils (5-2) Thursday and Vancouver Canucks (3-2) Saturday. The Flyers have scored 3 special-teams goals while getting good goaltending in the early going.
The Lightning are at home after starting the season with 3 straight games on the road. A shaky performance on faceoffs (34.4%) this season has fed into some significant puck-possession issues in Tampa’s 2 losses.
The Lightning outscored the Flyers 15-4 in sweeping the 3-game season series last year.
Flyers at Lightning odds
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- Moneyline: Flyers +230 (bet $100 to win $230) | Lightning -300 (bet $300 to win $100)
- Puck line (PL)/Against the spread (ATS): Flyers +1.5 (-108) | Lightning -1.5 (-112)
- Over/Under (O/U): 6.5 (O: +100 | U: -125)
Flyers at Lightning projected goalies
Carter Hart (2-0-0, 2.00 GAA, .940 SV%) vs Andrei Vasilevskiy (1-1-0, 2.54 GAA, .925 SV%)
Hart posted an .895 SV% over the last 2 seasons. He struggled against Tampa Bay last year (4.74 GAA, .854 SV%) and struggled on the road overall (3.43 GAA, .901 SV%).
Vasilevskiy stopped 61-of-64 (.953 SV%) pucks across 2 starts against Philadelphia last season. He’s finished top 5 in Vezina voting in each of the last 5 years.
Flyers at Lightning picks and predictions
Prediction
Lightning 5, Flyers 1
Moneyline
Tampa at -250 has value, but the juice drowns out the profit potential here AVOID.
Puck line/Against the spread
Philly’s results have thus far outpaced its execution. With the way Vasilevskiy dominated the Flyers last season and with some regression on each side in special-teams play LIGHTNING -1.5 (-112) is a solid play.
Over/Under
The Over here is enticing, but it also feels like a 5-1 or 4-2 Lightning win could get clocked over the last 10-15 minutes of play.
PASS.
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