Arizona @ TAMPA BAY
Arizona -½ +400 over TAMPA BAY

BEST LINES:  Pinnacle -½ +376 BET 365 -½ +400 SportsInteraction N/A 5DIMES -½ +385

Posted at 12:35 PM EST

7:35 PM EST. Regulation only. The Coyotes are not the focus here. We all know that the Coyotes will treat this one like a playoff game because that’s essentially what all these games are for teams fighting it out for the last couple of spots available. If the season ended today, the Coyotes would be in but there are still 10 games left and the ‘Yotes are hanging on by their chinny-chin-chins. Arizona will bring a 100% effort with them but again, this wager focuses more on fading the Lightning in perhaps their most unfavorable spot of the year.

This wager is based on the Lightning not really giving a f**k, which is why we’re spotting a half puck in regulation. If Tampa shows up, they’ll beat the Coyotes anyway and the last thing the Bolts need right now are OT games, as their only goal right now is to make it the playoffs healthy. The Lightning are a lock for first overall and home ice throughout the playoffs. They’re coming off a week in which they beat the Maple Leafs and Capitals, which was their last order of business. And just in case that wasn’t their last order of business, Tampa plays in Washington on Wednesday, thus, this game tonight is sandwiched between Washington on Saturday and Washington on Wednesday. There is nothing we can fathom that will motivate the Bolts to do anything but show up in body only here. To the Lightning, this is more of a glorified practice or an exhibition game after the big week they had in sending messages to both the Leafs and the team that knocked them out of last year’s playoffs, the Capitals. We highly doubt that Jon Cooper is going to push anyone tonight and we can almost guarantee that we’re going to get Tampa’s B or C effort. Arizona is a team that the Bolts rarely see and that they have no scores to settle with. The Bolts are a vulnerable big favorite here and we’re all over it.

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Our Pick

Arizona -½ +400 (Risking 2 units - To Win: 8.00)

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