Montreal at Tampa Bay

Montreal is down 3-0 and in desperation mode on the road. It helps to have a strong defense if you want to crawl out of a hole like this and the Canadiens are the best, at #1 in the NHL in goals allowed and #7 in penalty killing. They played a close, defensive game the last time out and lost 2-1 and will play a similar style here. Montreal goalie Carey Price led the NHL in wins (44), goals against (1.96) and save percentage (.933) to become the first to top all three categories since Ed Belfour in 1990-91. Montreal is 7-5 the last 12 games and three of the five losses were by one goal. They are more than capable of either winning straight-up or losing by one goal in a close one, plus the road team is 5-2 in the last seven meetings between these Eastern Conference foes. Take Montreal on the puckline.