Nashville Predators at Tampa Bay Lightning 4/23/22 - NHL Picks & Predictions

The Nashville Predators will go back on the road Saturday night to Tampa Bay Florida to take on the Tampa Bay Lightning. Nashville comes into Saturday night as one of the better teams in the NHL winners of three of the last five games played following a 3-2 win over the Calgary Flames. Despite a few mishaps goalie Juuse Saros saved 19 of 21 shots against posting a .905 save percentage leading his team to the victory in the shootout.

Offensively this season Nashville has been one of the better teams in the league averaging 3.17 goals per game on 29.9 shots as a team. Roman Josi leads the Nashville offense with 89 points on the year to go along with a team high 69 assists. Matt Duchene is the top goal scorer for Nashville with 40 goals on 210 shots this season.

The Tampa Bay Lightning will play their fifth consecutive home game Saturday night winners of three of the last four games played following and 8-1 blow out of Toronto. Andrei Vasilvskiy was dominant in the net for Tampa Bay posting a .973 save percentage after allowing only one goal on 37 shots.

Ross Colton and Alex Killorn led the way for the Tampa Bay offense with two goals and one assist each. Nikita Kucherov added 1 goal and 1 assists, while Ondrej Palat chipped in one goal and two assists as well for the Tampa Bay offense.