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The Tampa Bay Lightning are dealing with a brutal schedule. Tampa is coming from a 5 games road trip and is playing a sixth game in 9 days tonight... So, the team is back at home after long trip and playing into back to back games in a traveling situation. Second game in two nights, third in four.

The Lightning lost 4-0 last night against Florida and the gas tank was empty. Tough assignment tonight against a stronger team (Detroit).

I don't think Tampa is catching Detroit at the right time... Wings are coming from a third period debacle against Pittsburgh...a 7-6 OT loss ! Detroit should be in a bad mood and ready to jump on a tired team tonight. Oddsmakers posting a line saying the Wings should have about a 65 % chances of winning this game. I think under current circumstances they have about 80-85 % chances of winning this game.

Detroit (-185)

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AHL play :

The San Antonio Rampage is in a huge scoring slump. Team on a 7 game losing streak and scored 1 goal only in 6 (2 goals the other game) of the 7 games.

Iowa is on a 2 game winning streak, 11 goals scored in last 2 games.

Second game in 3 nights between the 2 teams, both games in Iowa. The Chops won the first game tuesday 5-1. San Antonio is just a bad hockey club (2-10-1), team can't score and is the most penalized in the AHL. Riding the best team.

Iowa (-1/2 -119)