Toronto Maple Leafs at Tampa Bay Lightning 5/8/22 - NHL Picks & Predictions

Last Updated: 05/07/2022 at 8:35 PM ET

This Sunday night May 8th, 2022 7pm EDT the NHL is back with more exciting hockey action. The Toronto Maple Leafs are in Tampa FL to face the Tampa Bay Lightening in Amalie Arena. Stay tuned we've got you covered on all the best betting angles here at Picks and Parlays your leader in free sports betting picks!

The Toronto Maple Leafs are 54-21-7 sitting in 2nd place in the Atlantic Division. Offensively the Maple Leafs are averaging 3.6 goals and 34.2 shots. The Maple Leafs are 30.3% on power play opportunities and 55.8% on faceoffs.

Defensively the Maple Leafs are allowing 3.05 goals and 30.8 shot attempts with a 84.5% penalty kill. Expected goalie for the Maple Leafs is Jack Campbell(31-9-6) with a .899 save percentage.

The Tampa Bay Lightning are 51-23-8 sitting in 2nd place in the Atlantic Division. Offensively the Lightning are averaging 3.46 goals, and 30 shots. The Lightning are 20.8% on power play opportunities and 49.9% on faceoffs.

Defensively the Lightning allow 2.82 goals and 29.3 shot attempts with a 79.6% penalty kill. Expected goalie for the Lightning is Andrei Vasilevskiy(39-18-5) with a .918 save percentage.

The Maple Leafs and Lightning are both what we like to call over teams. An over team is a team in which the over is a high percentage bet. The over is 8-2 in the Lightnings last 10 games and 7-3 in the Maple Leafs last 10. We think both teams will get enough goals to push the score over the projected total. Making our best bet the Over 6.5. Final score prediction the Tampa Bay Lightning wins covers the spread and the total goes over 6-4.

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