Tip: Can the Maple Leafs clinch the advancement tonight?

Toronto Maple Leafs visit Amalie Arena and Tampa Bay Lightning on Saturday night at 07:00 PM ET.

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The high scoring contests continues

The five played games in this series has contained a big amount of goals since the beginning, when the Lightning defeated the Maple Leafs by 7-3 in the opening game. Since then, we have had nine, seven, nine and six goals in each game and the games has also contained a big amount of goal scoring chances, but none of Andrei Vasilevskiy and Ilya Samsonov has played on their top level in this series and the same can clearly be said about the teams’ defenses.

Toronto with a lot of fire power and Erik Cernak still questionable for Tampa Bay

Toronto Maple Leafs seek their first postseason serial win since 2004 and to reach the next round, and get rid of the demons, they rely on their offensive capacity as they have players such as Auston Matthews, Mitchell Marner, John Tavares and William Nylander in their roster. In this series, it has been Mitchell Marner that has been the team’s top scorer with eleven (2+9) points scored in five games. Toronto Maple Leafs has also been able to create a big number of goals and goal scoring chances during the series as they have created over thirty shots on goal in four out of five games and scored twenty-one goals. In the series, the Maple Leafs has managed to score three goals or more in four out of five games. At the other hand, the Lightning still has to deal with an injury on their defensively strong defenseman Erik Cernak who has been unavailable since game two due to injury.

Conclusion and prediction

Can Toronto Maple Leafs defeat Tampa Bay Lightning and clinch the advancement tonight? if it is to become a reality, they have to rely on their offense that has been prominent in this series with over four goals scored per game and over thirty shots on goal per game. With players such as Auston Matthews, Mitchell Marner, John Tavares and William Nylander in their roster, the Lightning defense is going to have a lot of work to do to keep the numbers down. Besides that, the Lightning defenseman Erik Cernak is still unavailable.

Based on the conditions, I believe that the Maple Leafs will manage to create a big number of goal scoring chances tonight, and with the fire power they have to rely on their offense – I think that it is likely that the Maple Leafs score at least three goals during regular time.

My betting tip is therefore:

Toronto Maple Leafs Over 3.0 Goals (Regular time) @ -114 at Unibet

Stake refunded if Toronto scores exactly three goals during regular time