Morning Coffee: Looking At Adjusted Series Prices After Lightning, Oilers Bounce Back

The Tampa Bay Lightning are the two-time defending Stanley Cup champions.

On Wednesday night, they showed us exactly why that is once again. 

The Lightning beat the Toronto Maple Leafs 5-3 in Game 2 to even their best-of-seven first-round series at 1-1.

Tampa Bay improved to 15-0 in playoff games following a loss over the last three postseasons.

That’s just a ridiculous number.

As explained in Wednesday’s column, I was all over the Lightning at +114 on the money line.

After striking back to steal home-ice advantage in the series, the series price is basically a pick’em heading back to Tampa Bay for Game 3. 

Here’s the TSN EDGE Morning Coffee for Thursday, May 5th, 2022.

Hedman, Kucherov Power Bolts To Game 2 Win

The Lightning could be found as high as +164 to advance to the second round after losing Game 1 in Toronto.

As of this morning, Tampa Bay is -108 to win its first-round series at FanDuel Sportsbook.

The Maple Leafs went from -205 to -111 following their Game 2 loss.

"You have to make it personal … create an anger inside and a want to, whether your want is to win or your want is not to lose, either one. And that was the mindset we had going into tonight."#TBLvsTOR

After looking outmatched in their opener, the Lightning’s best players responded with big games.

Andrei Vasilevskiy made 31 saves to reach 50 career playoff wins.

Make that 15-0 for Andrei Vasilevskiy and the Lightning coming off a loss in the playoffs since 2020!