Capitals at Lightning NHL Betting Preview
Big Eastern Conference battle on Thursday Night
Capitals at Lightning NHL Betting Preview
The National Hockey League is packed with action on Thursday night, with one of the contests going down in the Sunshine State as the Tampa Bay Lightning prepare for a battle against Alex Ovechkin and the Washington Capitals. Let’s take a look and break down some key factors for this Eastern Conference showdown between the Capitals at Lightning NHL Betting Preview matchup for Thursday night in Tampa.
Capitals at Lightning 
Records: Washington Capitals (25-21-8, 58 points) at Tampa Bay Lightning (30-22-5, 65 points)
Location: Amalie Arena, Tampa Bay, Florida
Day/Time: Streaming: ESPN+
Capital Freeze
The Washington Capitals have struggled all season long in the National Hockey League Metropolitan Division, with one of the worst offensive groups in the league, despite having the second-best scorer of All-Time in Alex Ovechkin. Now, the “Great Eight” was on a slump for most of the start to the year, but with five goals in the last five games combined, the 38-year-old veteran is starting to find his personal groove, but it won’t help much for the rest of this club moving forward.
Outside of winger Dylan Strome, with his team leading 21 goals, head coach Spencer Carberry is strapped with a bunch of forwards who can’t find their way toward scoring consistently on a nightly basis. Goaltender Charlie Lindgren made 37 saves on 39 shots faced to earn his eleventh victory of the season in a 6-2 win over the New Jersey Devils on Tuesday evening in D.C.
Shock and Awe in Tampa?
The Tampa Bay Lightning were on a nice run until they got blown out by their rivals, the Florida Panthers, at home 9-2 last weekend. The Bolts followed that up with another defeat at Amalie Arena on Monday evening, this time at the hands of the Ottawa Senators by a final score of 4-2. Senators defenseman Mathieu Joseph scored a pair of goals, and Tampa has now fallen to the first Wild Card spot in the Eastern Conference, just one point ahead of the Detroit Red Wings, who are also in the Atlantic Division.
Tampa Bay will once again go to their superstar between the pipes in Andrei Vasilevskiy, who has won three of his last five starts and will need to be in better form along with the rest of head coach Jon Cooper’s club if they wish to continue their streak of reaching the postseason this Spring.
Capitals at Lightning Betting Odds
Sportsbooks have the hosting Tampa Bay Lightning NHL Odds betting odds to win as large favorites against the visiting Washington Capitals on Thursday night, priced around -190 to -200. Tampa Bay has won ten of their last fifteen games overall, including seven of their last nine games at home. Washington has lost eight of their eleven games overall, including six of their last eight head-to-head meetings with the Lightning. Tampa has won four of the previous five contests against the Caps on home ice.
Concluding the Capitals at Lightning NHL Betting Preview: The total for this contest is set at six goals shaded to the Over between the pick’em price range of -115 and -120. The Lightning have gone Over the total in five of their last six games at home, while Washington has gone Over the total in seven of their last ten games overall.
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