NHL Betting: Tampa Bay Overpowers Pittsburgh at LinesMaker

NHL Betting: Tampa Bay Overpowers Pittsburgh

The Tampa Bay Light­ning posted a 4–2 vic­tory over the Pitts­burgh Pen­guins on Mon­day, cour­tesy of Steve Downie who net­ted the go-head goal and two assists.

Attract­ing nearly 60% of the NHL bet­ting action, the Tampa Bay Light­ning were the clear favorites against Pitts­burgh among Lines­Maker bet­tors. With –123 NHL odds, Tampa Bay delighted the major­ity of bet­tors by defeat­ing the Pen­guins (+114).

Downie scored the goal in the third period to break a 2–2 tie forged by Jor­dan Staal’s goal for Pitts­burgh, even as Tampa Bay forced a Game 7 in the first round of play­off series after tying the East­ern Con­fer­ence quar­ter­fi­nals at 3–3.

Teddy Pur­cell and Sean Bergen­heim each scored a goal with Downie’s assist for the Bolts. Ryan Mal­one also tal­lied in the mid­dle of final frame for the Light­ning, who won sec­ond time in a row. Dwyane Rolo­son turned aside 27-of-29 shots in the win.

Pas­cal Dupuis added a goal for the Pen­guins. Marc-Andre Fleury stopped 17 shots in the loss.

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