Tampa Bay Lightning at New York Islanders 6/23/21 - NHL Picks & Predictions

The last game was an amazing showing of the offense for the Lightning. The problem is the Lightning on the year have had issues in getting the big offensive showing in back to back games and that would definitely prove to be very difficult for the Lightning to have in back to back games.

With the Islanders they have to get back into their defensive mode from the season. The Islanders lack of defense in giving up 8 goals in the last game could prove to be a disaster. Now, the Islanders face elimination in this game here and that could make it very difficult for the Islanders to win this game.

In the losing effort the Islanders only managed to get a total of 21 shots in the game. New York ended up delivering a total of 40 hits in the game. The Islanders did have a total of 57 penalty minutes in the game, but had only 27 faceoff wins. 

The Lightning for their part ended up getting a total of 42 shots in the game. The Lightning were fairly physical with 41 hits in the game, but won a total of 28 faceoffs. Even the Lightning were penalized quite a bit serving a total of 28 penalty minutes.