Tampa Bay at Carolina

Tampa Bay will continue to defend its 2020 Stanley Cup championship after beating Florida in six games, and the Lightning topped it off with a dominating 4-0 victory on Wednesday. Andrei Vasilevskiy stopped 29 shots in another series-clinching shutout. He did the same last year when the Lightning beat Dallas to win the Cup. Vasilevskiy is 35-11-2 with a 2.27 goals-against average while his counterpart, Alex Nedeljkovic, actually has allowed 14 goals his last four games against Nashville, all of which went into overtime. The Lightning have won four of the last six meetings, and they are 11-4 their past 15 games playing with at least three days rest, and they are 63-28 their past 91 games after allowing two or fewer goals their previous game. Take the Lightning.