Tampa Bay Lightning vs Detroit Red Wings 12/6/22 NHL Picks, Predictions, Odds

The Detroit Red Wings and the Tampa Bay Lightning meet in NHL action from Amalie Arena on Tuesday night.

The Detroit Red Wings will look to build on their 4-2 win over Columbus in their last game. Dylan Larkin leads Detroit with 9 goals and 17 assists for his 26 points while Dominik Kubalik has 24 points with 10 goals and 14 assists. Filip Hronek has 22 points with 6 goals and 16 assists and David Perron has 19 points with 7 goals and 12 assists. Ville Husso has gone 10-4-3 with a 2.58 GAA and a .912 save percentage while Alex Nedeljkovic is 2-3-2 with a 3.97 GAA and an .880 save percentage between the pipes for Detroit this season.

The Tampa Bay Lightning will look to build on their 4-3 OT win over Toronto last time out. Nikita Kucherov leads the Lightning with 36 points including a team-high 25 assists while Steven Stamkos has 29 points with a team-high 13 goals on the year. Brayden Point also has 24 points with 10 goals and 14 assists while Mikhail Sergachev has 23 points with 4 goals and 19 assists this season. Andrei Vasilevskiy is 10-7-1 with a 2.78 GAA and a .909 save percentage while Brian Elliott is 5-1 with a 3.62 GAA and an .886 save percentage so far between the pipes for Tampa Bay.

Detroit is 29-82 in their last 111 road games and 30-71 in their last 101 games against a team with a winning record while the under is 5-2 in their last 7 games following a win. Tampa Bay is 8-2 in their last 10 games overall and 39-16 in their last 55 home games while the over is 5-1 in their last 6 division games.

I get the case to be made for either side here, but I honestly like the under. I don’t trust Detroit on the road, but sometimes the Red Wings just have a knack for playing the better teams close and tight on the road like they’ve done in the past with the Hurricanes, Panthers and you guessed it… The Lightning. This to me just has a 3-2 kind of feel to this game or a first to 3 wins vibe, so give me the under.