Tampa Bay Lightning vs Toronto Maple Leafs Prediction: Problems with Psychology

Prediction for the NHL Tampa Bay Lightning vs Toronto Maple Leafs match which will take place on April 30th. Who will turn out to be stronger? Check the team conditions! Several betting options are available. 

Tampa Bay fights desperately to keep the chances of another Stanley Cup. The wards of John Cooper have played in the last three final series of the playoffs, but now they risk failing unusually early. In the first game with Toronto, the Southerners got a victory – 7:2, but they could not achieve success. On the contrary, the Lightning allowed three consecutive defeats – 2:7, 3:4, and 4:5, and in two cases, there was overtime. The day before, Tampa Bay could have already gone on vacation, having missed the first. 

Toronto is incredibly close to overcoming the first round of the Stanley Cup for the first time in 19 years. In recent years, the Maple Leafs have repeatedly won in three games of the Eastern Conference quarterfinals. All this led to defeats and final relegation. And now Sheldon Keogh's wards played superbly until the fifth game, winning three consecutive games after losing in the first meeting. One step away from reaching the second round, the blue whites again had problems, so they lost the day before to Tampa Bay - 2:4.

Toronto again got into the most challenging situation when. Problems with psychology do not allow the Maple Leafs to take this decisive step in any way. Now the opponent is even more severe and can turn the course of the confrontation on the cup experience. On the eve of the game, the Lightning has already come close to this, and now they have excellent chances to succeed again. 

Despite the enormous tension in each match, the game between Tampa Bay and Toronto was entertaining and productive. Over the previous five meetings, the opponents scored 41 goals against each other (8.20 on average per game), a very high result for the NHL playoffs. And now we have the right to expect a battle full of goals since the goalkeepers still allow mistakes, but the representatives of the attack look great.