Montreal at Tampa Bay

The Tampa Bay Lightning have slowly been eroding. They averaged better than 60 wins a season for five straight years, including the playoffs, but last year had just 48, and are at just 32 this season. Things are certainly not going favorably for this team in recent games as they are just 2-5 in their last seven games. They have a lot to clean up on the defensive end of the ice as the Lightning in those seven games are allowing 4.3 goals per contest. Montreal is looking for some signs of progress which just have not been there this season, but they catch a slowly eroding Tampa Bay team in a stretch of the season where they are vulnerable to anyone. Make the play on Montreal.