The Tampa Bay Lightning and Philadelphia Flyers meet Thursday in NHL action at the Wells Fargo Center. The Tampa Bay Lightning have won 6 of their last 8 games. The Philadelphia Flyers have lost 13 of their last 16 games.
The Tampa Bay Lightning are averaging 3.6 goals per game and are scoring on 28 percent of their power play opportunities. Steven Stamkos leads Tampa Bay with 13 goals, Nikita Kucherov has 25 assists and Brayden Point has 62 shots on goal. Defensively, the Tampa Bay Lightning are allowing 3.2 goals per game and are killing 77.9 percent of their opponent’s power plays. Andrei Vasilevskiy has given up 46 goals on 487 shots faced, and Brian Elliott has allowed 22 goals on 193 shots.
The Philadelphia Flyers are averaging 2.4 goals per game and are scoring on 14.3 percent of their power play opportunities. Kevin Hayes leads Philadelphia with 8 goals, Travis Konecny has 12 assists and Ivan Provorov has 51 shots on goal. Defensively, the Philadelphia Flyers are allowing 3.3 goals per game and are killing 73.5 percent of their opponent’s power plays. Carter Hart has allowed 43 goals on 519 shots faced, and Felix Sandstrom has given up 25 goals on 226 shots.
The Lightning are 202-94 in their last 296 games playing on 1 days rest and 6-2 in their last 8 overall. The Flyers are 1-4 in their last 5 home games and 20-55 in their last 75 overall. The over is 9-4-1 in Lightning last 14 overall. The under is 3-1-2 in Flyers last 6 home games. The Lightning are 6-0 in the last 6 meetings in Philadelphia and 45-22 in the last 67 meetings. The road team is 4-1 in the last 5 meetings. The favorite is 9-3 in the last 12 meetings.
The Tampa Bay Lightning look like a team that’s starting to heat up, and they’ve absolutely feasted on losing teams over the last 3 years. The Philadelphia Flyers are the coldest team in the sport, as they’ve won just 4 games since October 23. It’s hard to back the Flyers in their current form against anybody, let alone against one of the best teams in the league. Give me the Tampa Bay Lightning and the PL for max betting value.