Amalie Arena will be electric tonight when the Tampa Bay Lightning raise their Stanley Cup banner and open the season against the Pittsburgh Penguins. Pittsburgh will be without two of their key weapons, Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin, who are both sidelined with injuries and that is not good for a Penguins team that is 0-5 in their last 5 trips to Tampa. Tampa finished the regular season with a 21-7 record at home and are expected to have Andrei Vasilevskiy between the pipes, who was outstanding as usual last season. Can the Tampa Bay Lightning capture their third straight Stanley Cup victory? Absolutely and the quest starts tonight.
TONIGHT’S PICK: TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING