Coyotes at Lightning NHL Matchup
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Coyotes at Lightning NHL Matchup Betting Preview
Two National Hockey League clubs do battle in Tampa Bay on Thursday night as the Lightning host the Arizona Coyotes, who are skating in the second leg of a back-to-back trek through the Sunshine State. Let’s take a look and breakdown some key factors for this contest between Cross-Conference foes in this betting preview of Coyotes at Lightning NHL Betting Matchup for Thursday night in Tampa Bay.
Arizona Coyotes (23-20-3, 49 points) at Tampa Bay Lightning (25-18-5, 55 points)
Date, time:
Location: Amalie Arena, Tampa Bay, Florida
Streaming: Live Sports Stream
Coyotes Playing Wolf?
The Arizona Coyotes have had a solid first half of the National Hockey League regular season and are entrenched in their first true Wild Card race for the first time since before the 2019-2020 season was stopped due to the COVID-19 Pandemic, in which that bubble postseason was the last time the Yotes played playoff hockey.
Heading into the All-Star Break, this beat up team is looking forward to some days of rest and healing and it showed last night in their 6-2 blowout loss to the Florida Panthers. Goaltender Karel Vejmelka was a mess between the pipes, allowing three soft goals early in the first period.
He finished the contest making 37 saves on 43 shots faced for the loss. With that defeat, Arizona has now dropped eight of their last eleven contests on the road and now sit two points behind division foes Nashville for the second and final Wild Card spot in the Western Conference with two games left to play before the All-Star break.
Bolts Shocking Again?
The Tampa Bay Lightning have been rolling along in the Atlantic Division of late, winning seven of their last eight games as they head close into the All-Star Break. On Tuesday night, they doubled up the Philadelphia Flyers in a 6-3 decision led by a Hat Trick from forward Nikita Kucherov, who also had an assist, and a goal and assist from veteran Brayden Point.
Goaltender Andrei Vasilevskiy made 29 saves on 32 shots for his 14th victory of the season and his fourth win in his last five starts. The former Conn Smythe Trophy winner seems to be in solid form after missing the first two months of the season recovering from a back procedure right before the start of Training Camp.
Coyotes at Lightning Betting Odds
Sportsbooks have the hosting Tampa Bay Lightning NHL Odds betting odds to win as large favorites against the visiting Arizona Coyotes on Thursday night priced in the range around -185 to -195. The Coyotes have lost eight of their last eleven games on the road after last night’s 6-2 beatdown against the Florida Panthers.
Tampa Bay has won seven of their last eight games overall, including six straight at home, and four of the last five meetings against Arizona.
Concluding the Coyotes at Lightning NHL Betting Matchup Betting Preview: The total for this contest is set at 6.5 goals shaded to the Under between the price of -120 and -130. The Over has cashed in four of the last six head-to-head meetings between these two clubs. The Under has cashed in eight of the last twelve games for the Lightning against clubs from the Central Division.
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