T.M. Selection: Rangers/Lightning OVER.

I am on the over in the New York Rangers vs Tampa Bay Lightning game on Saturday. The Rangers are down 3-2 in this series for this game in Tampa and they really have their backs against the wall here, needing a win just to even up the series and keep their hopes alive. The previous few games have been really low scoring and defensive games with great goaltending from both teams but I think we are going to see some goals in this game here. The defensive approach hasn't been working for the Rangers lately since they have been losing the previous few games like that with late goals by Tampa after being tied in the game for so long. I think they are going to be aggressive from the start of this game and I expect them to play desperately too, leaving everything out on the ice here giving their best effort. We have seen the Rangers step up this postseason in these situations specifically, they have already faced elimination in 5 different games this postseason and won all of them by scoring 4+ goals in all of them too. I don't think the Lightning are going to let the Rangers walk all over them on home ice though and I expect a lot of push back from the Lightning on home ice here. I think the Lightning will try to score quickly and take a big lead to try and deflate the Rangers here. The Rangers also know that they need to score 1st here and do it quickly because playing from behind in this game will put them in a lot of trouble. I see there being a lot of early goals in this game and I expect both teams to rack them up here as 1 team looks to move on while the other just tries to stay alive here with a win. I like the over in this game.

T.M. Prediction: 4-3 Lightning.