Lightning Feast on Road-Weary Canucks in Mismatch of the Week

The Lightning host a Canucks squad that's limping into Amalie Arena on fumes, and this one has blowout written all over it. Tampa Bay is a perfect 4-0 at home, averaging 3.5 goals while surrendering less than two per night. Vancouver? They're 1-5 away from Rogers Arena and riding a six-game skid that's turned their road trip into a funeral procession.

The real story is between the pipes. Andrei Vasilevskiy isn't having a vintage start at .886, but he looks like a Vezina candidate compared to the crater that is Joonas Lankinen right now. The Canucks netminder is posting a .786 save percentage and a ghastly 6.89 goals-against average—numbers so bad they'd embarrass a beer-league backup. When your goalie is letting in seven of every nine shots, you're not winning anywhere, let alone in a building where Tampa has been dominant.

DarkHorse has the Lightning at -375, and yeah, that's laying serious lumber. But sometimes the juice is worth the squeeze. Vancouver's defensive structure has completely collapsed on the road, they can't score enough to keep pace at 2.5 goals per game, and they're trotting out a goaltender who couldn't stop a beach ball right now. Fade the Canucks until further notice.