Nashville Predators at Tampa Bay Lightning odds, picks and prediction

Nashville Predators play the first half of two games in three days against the Tampa Bay Lightning at Amalie Arena on Saturday at 7 p.m. ET.

Nashville Predators are playing Tampa Bay Lightning.

Juuse Saros and Andrei Vasilevskiy are the projected starting goalies for Nashville Predators and Tampa Bay Lightning. Saro's team lost back-to-back games against the Dallas Stars and Columbus Blue Jackets. Vasilievsky is an early Vezina Trophy favorite.

Nashville Predators are ninth in the NHL with a 5-on-5 Corsi For percentage of 52.74%, while Tampa Bay Lightning are 12th at 52:36%. Nashville is just 2-for-28 on the power play (29th) and 7-14 on penalty kill (30th). Tampa has two losses and an overtime win in their last three games. Nashville went to extra time in each of its last two games against Chicago.