St. Louis Blues – Tampa Bay Lightning / NHL – The duel between the blues and Lightning is the most interesting in the previous championship section. Two top-placed teams meet in their conferences and there is certainly a very interesting and exciting duel on the program. Both teams have each won four wins in the last four matches and are waiting for this upcoming duel in a good mood. This is a duel between the two most efficient teams in the league.
St. Louis Blues
After 31 duels, the Blues occupy the leading position of the Western Conference by one point ahead of the second-placed Los Angeles Kings and by the end of the season, there is sure to be an interesting battle for the top of the table. The blues have performed brilliantly since the championship kick-off, especially at home. Nevertheless, at the end of the last and the beginning of this month, today’s hosts received some surprising home defeats.
They were defeated by Nashville, Anaheim and the Los Angeles Kings. After three defeats in a row, they played away at Montreal, which does not play good matches this year. Today’s hosts have used that and stopped the negative series with the 4: 3 victory. In the following round they played at home against the unpleasant Dallas. Unlike the recent home duels, the blues played a much better game this time and took a sure win. In the last two rounds, they have won away to Detroit and a home win over Buffalo.
Tampa Bay Lightning
Lightning is the most convincingly efficient team in the league and has the best defense besides Columbus. In the previous championship part they conceded only eight defeats and occupy the leading table position of the Eastern Conference. They are three points ahead of second-placed Toronto and five third-placed Columbus. Interestingly, their rivals for the leading position in the standings are not currently Pittsburgh, the Rangers or Montreal, who are in the top of the table every season. Today’s guests conceded just five defeats in the first 20 championship duels.
St. Louis Blues – Tampa Bay Lightning TIP
Both teams have the same number of points in their account, with the blues having a duel more. One problem for Lightning could be the fact that they have been playing a bit worse games abroad lately. In the last five duels they even lost three defeats, so this time we give the blues a slight role as favorites.
