ASA PLAY 7* on Tampa Bay Lightning Money Line (-) over Columbus Blue Jackets,Thursday at 3:00 PM ET

As a general rule we shy away from this price range (-165/-170) in money line sports but in the post-season the edges are sometimes so strong that the value is there even in a price range like this. Columbus is at a severe disadvantage here after Game 1 of this series went 5 overtimes on Tuesday! The Blue Jackets are the only team in this post-season that had to win a Game 5 in the qualifying round just to get here. Columbus was very resilient in knocking off a talented Maple Leafs team Sunday to make up for their inexcusable collapse in Game 4 of that series on Friday. However, as a result of playing so many games and now Game 1 of this series going 5 overtimes, the Blue Jackets have averaged nearly a game of hockey per day over the past 8 days! That makes recovery tough and the Lightning situation is much better as they only had to play in the round robin last week and so just had 3 games and they were much less intense than what Columbus had. When you factor all that in as well as the fact that the Blue Jackets lost Game 1 of this series in the multi-overtime thriller, Columbus could be spent both physically and mentally heading into this one. Look for the Lightning, still stinging from last year's playoff sweep ouster at the hands of the Blue Jackets, to take full advantage and win Game 2 in convincing fashion. ASA PLAY Tampa Bay Lightning on the money line in afternoon action Thursday.