Pick: Tampa Bay in seven games
Why Tampa?
I know that everyone said the same thing in the Anaheim series with the Blackhawks defence – but they have to be exhausted.
That’s just a compounding factor to go with the speed of the Tampa Bay Lightning. This is a young, energetic group that doesn’t slow down.
They took their defensive play up a notch in the Rangers series – for some of the games – and we should expect them to seek out consistency with that. Victor Hedman is an animal.