Nice work at the deadline by the Lightning to reunite with Yanni Gourde, added yesterday from Seattle. Just as Tampa Bay is making a real push and closing in on the top spot in the Atlantic Division with wins in nine of ten. All easier to win like that when the defense is so airtight, allowing just seven goals total across the last six games. Andrei Vasilevskiy isn't slated to rest tonight, and when he's in there. it's hard not to like Tampa Bay at the moment, stopping 134 of 139 shots that he's seen in his past five starts. Meanwhile, after a brief surge, the Sabres are skidding again, winless in four straight, with Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen struggling in goal. Play Lightning on Puck Line.

Want to alert readers that as of today we do have some NHL player props available. I'll pretty much always lean Under any guy at 1.5 points (other than perhaps Connor McDavid) -- especially at a good price like this. And even though the Bolts' Nikita Kucherov is having another MVP-caliber season. Any NHL goaltender is capable of a shutout/one-goal effort. We didn't get a 60-minute line prop yet as that's the one I would use the most. I won't play that many individual NHL props but occasionally.