Really weird that there is back-to-back in the playoffs, and honestly, I hate it. However, I think that benefits the home team and whichever team currently has the momentum, and that team is the Lightning for both. The Panthers have been completely shut down in this series and they aren’t set up to win a defensive type of game. The Lightning have the chance to sweep them on home ice tonight and honestly, I haven’t seen anything from the Panthers yet to show me they have some fight left. I like the Lightning at this price.

Just from a fan standpoint, I'd like Florida to win so we get more hockey in this series but I see no reason to back the Panthers on the road to avoid the sweep. The NHL's highest-scoring team in decades has been held to one goal in each game by Andrei Vasilevskiy. Cats netminder Sergei Bobrovsky simply isn't in his fellow Russian's class. Rare that this is the second of a back-to-back in the playoffs. Florida is 1-4 in its past five as a dog.