Tampa Bay Lightning (42-26-6) vs. Carolina Hurricanes (47-16-9)
March 28, 2023 7:00 pm EDT
The Line: Carolina Hurricanes -135 / Tampa Bay Lightning +115; Over/Under: +6
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The Tampa Bay Lightning and the Carolina Hurricanes meet in NHL action from the PNC Arena on Tuesday night. Let’s dive into the odds, injuries, matchup history and make a prediction for this game.
Odds
Carolina is listed as a -135 home favorite while Tampa Bay is a +115 road underdog. The total for this game is set at 6 goals.
Injuries
Tampa Bay doesn’t have any new names listed on the injury report while Carolina’s listed Jesse Puljujarvi as questionable and Ondrej Kase is out until early April with a concussion.
Matchup History
Carolina’s 6-0 win over Tampa Bay back on March 5th, 2023, made it four wins in the last five head-to-head meetings between these two teams.
Trends
Tampa Bay is 2-6 in their last 8 road games and 0-4 in their last 4 games overall while the over is 7-3-1 in their last 11 games against a team with a winning record. Carolina is 37-14 in their last 51 games overall and 55-22 in their last 77 home games while the over is 5-2 in their last 7 games overall.
Pick
I’m backing the Hurricanes here. Carolina’s simply the team playing better hockey right now, and it almost feels like the Lightning are just focused on the first round of the playoffs and they’ve done this kind of thing before in past seasons where they just mail it in over the last couple of weeks of the season. Carolina’s fighting for a division title and they’ve also had the recent success over the Lightning in past meetings so I’ll back Carolina here.
