The Washington Capitals are 11-3 in their last 14 home games against the Tampa Bay Lightning. After losing Game 3 at home to the Lightning, the Capitals look to get back on track this Thursday night.
Lightning vs. Capitals 2018 odds: Sportsbooks set pivotal Game 4 as pick ’em on NHL lines
The Washington Capitals will try to take a 3-1 series lead on Thursday night before heading back to Tampa Bay, with the sportsbooks setting a tight betting line.
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Washington and Tampa Bay are going off as a pick’em in Game 4 at -110 each at sportsbooks monitored by OddsShark.com. The road team is 3-0 straight up and against the spread in the last three games of this series.
Tampa Bay Lightning at Washington Capitals
When: Thursday, May 17, 8:00 p.m. ET
Where: Capital One Arena, Washington, D.C.
Betting Line / Total: Pick’em / 6 Goals
Washington Capitals
The Capitals thoroughly dominated the first two games of this series in Tampa Bay, topping the Lightning 4-2 in Game 1 and 6-2 in Game 2.
Perhaps a bit content with its 2-0 series lead at home, Washington came out flat in Game 3 and found itself in a 3-0 hole just minutes into the second period. Washington cut the lead to two goals twice but was never able to make it closer than that, dropping the game on its home ice 4-2.
Since going a perfect 7-0 in their previous seven games at home, the Capitals are an underwhelming 4-6 in their last 10 games at home per the OddsShark NHL Database.
Tampa Bay Lightning
Stealing a game on road ice usually comes down to getting an excellent effort out of your goaltender, and Tampa Bay got exactly that from Andrei Vasilevskiy on Tuesday night. The 23-year-old netminder was off to a shaky start in this series with a pair of disappointing starts in Tampa Bay, but Tuesday night’s 36-save performance put the Lightning right back into this series.
Tampa Bay is 10-4 in its last 14 road games including a current run of four straight playoff road wins.
Thursday night’s total is set at six goals. The OVER is 12-4-3 in Tampa Bay’s last 19 games away from home.
The recipe for success for Tampa Bay seems to be fairly simple. The Lightning are 15-0 in their last 15 games in which they score three goals or more and 0-13 in their last 13 games when scoring two goals or less. Braden Holtby, who stopped only 19 of the 23 shots he faced in Game 3, will need to be better if Washington hopes to maintain its series lead.
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