Tampa Bay has gone Over the total in nine of its last 11 games. It's easy to understand why. The Lightning have scored five or more goals in eight of these games. They are averaging an NHL-best 4.2 goals per game.

The Lightning have been on the West Coast for the past five days having already posted victories against the Ducks and Kings. Now they draw the Sharks, who have surrendered 16 goals in their last three games and that's before losing a pair of defensemen, Marc-Edouard Vlasic and Justin Braun, to injuries this past Wednesday in their last game.

The Sharks' two best defensemen, Brent Burns and Erik Karlsson, just may be the two best offensively-skilled defensemen in the league. So don't expect the Sharks to go into some kind of preventive shell. The Sharks have scored 17 goals in their last three games.

These two teams have a history of playing Over when getting together with 12 of the past 15 meeting going above the total. The Over has cashed in seven of the last eight meetings in San Jose.