Nashville heads to Tampa Bay to open their season against the Lightning. Nashville made some big changes to their lineup to improve their team and also hired a new coach which is also an improvement.

Tampa Bay comes into the season off a first round exit and are looking to make it back to the cup finals this year however will be without their franchise goaltender for the first 2 months of the season. Some Injuries effect some teams more then others for Tampa Bay losing Andrei Vasilevskiy is an extreme blow to the team as they will now have to rely on Jonas Johansson or Matt Tomkins to fill the void of Vasilevskiy.

Tampa Bay should not be -170 against Nashville without Vasilevskiy. Nashville has a HUGE goaltending advantage with Juuse Saros and are just too big of dogs in this opening night matchup.

I expect this line to move as we get closer to the regular season as some books have +135 already. Jump on this play right away.

Pick: Nashville Predators ML (+150)