The Tampa Bay Lightning will be a big dog today when they open the Eastern Conference first round against the Florida Panthers in Sunrise and that suits me just fine. The Bolts are dangerous. They have the league’s top scorer, Nikita Kucherov, with Steven Stamkos, Brayden Point, and the Big Cat, Andrei Vasilevskiy, in net. They can beat these guys and did so in their last meeting, 5-3.
TODAY’S PICK: TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING