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The Lightning are going for the sweep in Montreal on Monday and I honestly don’t see any reason why they wouldn’t get it. Tampa Bay has been the better team all series but Montreal has also been making really bad mistakes all series that cost them. You can’t have miscues like that and expect to beat the Lightning, let alone win a Stanley Cup. Carey Price has looked leaky and Andrei Vasilevskiy has been a wall. Take the Lightning to get the sweep.
Bit of a tough call here as you know the Lightning would prefer to clinch the Cup on home ice and the players might be a little tired of being in that Montreal bubble due to COVID restrictions. One figures the Habs come out firing with nothing to lose -- that also could weaken their defense in front of Carey Price. He's a future Hall of Famer but has been very shaky in this series with a 4.38 GAA and a .835 save percentage. Some had speculated Jake Allen might get the call in Game 4, but it will be Price. I simply can't come up with enough reasons to justify picking Montreal with the talent gap between these teams. Maybe if the Canadiens had a full building of fans. And the puckline on the Habs at -200 is simply not worth it. Tampa sweeps to repeat, and we'll see you in October when we can cherry-pick the best regular-season games and get our numbers up near +4000 again.