Stanley Cup Final Preview and Predictions
East Winner Tampa Bay 2 vs West Winner Montreal 4
These two teams have played three times prior to this year in the playoffs, Tampa Bay winning 2 of the previous 3 matches. They never played this year because their were only divisional games this year but here is last year’s regular season record vs each other: Tampa Bay 4-0-0, Montreal 0-4-0. The most interesting thing I want to see in this series is the goalies as the Canadiens goalie Carey Price who has fulled the Canadiens to three stunning series wins and Tampa Bays Andeei Vasilevskiy who is a Vezina finalist and is easily one of the top 5 goalies in the league. Vasilevskiy and Price are two of the best goalies in recent years and whichever goalie plays on a more consistent level will give their
First three round’s stats
Goals for to Goals against
Tampa Bay 58-37+21 Montreal 43-35+8
Power play
Tampa Bay 20/53 Montreal 9/43
Penalty kill
Tampa Bay 44/53 Montreal 43/46
Hits
Tampa Bay 628 Montreal 656
Shots
Tampa Bay 536 Montreal 495
Tampa Bay has Advantage Offensively: with Kucherov and Stamkos adding to the amazing depth and scoring ability of this team it leads me to believe that Tampa has the Offensive edge.
Montreal has Advantage Defensively: with the way Montreal played once Petry came back from injury against Vegas it leads me to believe that Montreal has the slight edge.
Tampa Bay has advantage on goaltending: once again is is a thin line and both teams have backups who can play if the starters get injured but between Vasilevskiy who could easily be the best goalie in the league and Price I have to go with Vasilevskiy.
My Prediction: Montreal in 7 games
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