ASA NHL TOP PLAY ON 10* Tampa Bay Lightning Puck Line (-1.5 goals) over Columbus Blue Jackets, Tuesday at 7:05 PM ET - The Lightning are in a great spot for a blowout home win here. Tampa Bay has been off back to back days so they are well-rested here and have had extra time to build plenty of motivation here. That extra hunger stems from multiple factors here. For one thing, the Bolts are off back to back losses and this is a team that has not lost 3 straight games this entire season. For another thing, the Lightning did lose the most recent game against the Blue Jackets and that was a 5-2 loss at Columbus in late January. A lot has changed since then and that includes the fact that the Jackets have struggled badly. Columbus enters this game having lost 4 straight games and 15 of their last 21 games! Of course that plus the revenge factor as well as Tampa Bay's situation is the reason that TB is a money line favorite in the -250 range here. Where we get the value in playing on the Lightning here is with the puck line. We can comfortably lay the -1.5 goals here and get a price of about -105 and we say comfortably because the Blue Jackets have 11 road losses this season and 8 have come by a multiple goal margin. In fact the average margin of those 8 defeats is 3 goals. The last 4 road losses for Columbus, including back to back defeats at Detroit, have come by a combined score of 15 to 3. Our computer math modeling reflects this one getting very ugly for the road team and we completely agree! Laying the 1.5 goals (at a pick'em price currently in the -105 range) with Tampa Bay is the value play here.