{"id":462313,"date":"2025-02-09T07:25:44","date_gmt":"2025-02-09T12:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=462313"},"modified":"2025-02-09T07:25:44","modified_gmt":"2025-02-09T12:25:44","slug":"nhl-predictions-feb-9-tampa-bay-lightning-vs-montreal-canadiens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2025\/02\/09\/nhl-predictions-feb-9-tampa-bay-lightning-vs-montreal-canadiens\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL Predictions: Feb 9 Tampa Bay Lightning vs Montreal Canadiens"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome back to NHL Predictions. Each day,\u00a0Last Word on Hockey<\/em>\u00a0takes a look at the games that are scheduled and offers insight and analysis to help predict who will be victorious in head-to-head matchups. In today\u2019s round of NHL Predictions, we are looking at the game between the\u00a0Tampa Bay Lightning<\/a>\u00a0vs\u00a0Montreal Canadiens<\/a>. Be sure to check out more NHL Predictions as the 2024-25 season continues.<\/p>\n

NHL predictions will return will return after the Four Nations Faceoff. However, we’ll have Four Nations predictions in the meantime.<\/p>\n

NHL Predictions<\/h2>\n

Utah Hockey Club vs Washington Capitals<\/h3>\n

Head-to-Head: Utah HC 0-1 Capitals<\/h4>\n

Time:<\/strong> 12:30 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (EST)<\/p>\n

TV:<\/strong> Sportsnet; Monument Sports Network; Utah16; ESPN+<\/p>\n

We open NHL predictions with the Utah Hockey Club<\/a> visiting the Washington Capitals.<\/a> Utah is expected to start Connor Ingram<\/a> in goal for this game. However, always check social media before locking in a daily fantasy starter. Utah HC is coming into this game with a 4-4-2 mark in the last 10 games. Clayton Keller<\/a> leads the team in goals (20), assists (39) and points (59) for Utah.<\/p>\n

Logan Thompson<\/a> is the projected starter for the Capitals, who are 7-1-2 coming into this game. This includes two consecutive victories for the Metropolitan Division leaders. Alex Ovechkin<\/a> is the team’s leader in goals with 26. However, Dylan Strome<\/a> is tops in assists (37) and points (52).<\/p>\n

Washington is going into the break with a victory.<\/p>\n

Prediction: Capitals win 4-2.<\/em><\/p>\n

Tampa Bay Lightning vs Montreal Canadiens<\/h3>\n

Head-to-Head: Lightning 0-2 Canadiens<\/h4>\n

Time:\u00a0<\/strong>1 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (EST)<\/p>\n

TV:<\/strong> NHL Network; Fan Duel Sports Sun; TSN2<\/p>\n

The last game of NHL predictions<\/a> is the featured matchup between the Lightning and Canadiens. Andrei Vasilevskiy<\/a> is the expected starter for Tampa Bay, which is 5-4-1 in the last 10 games. However, the Lightning have won three straight games entering this matchup. Brayden Point<\/a> has great so far this season with 30 goals and 27 assists for Tampa Bay.<\/p>\n

Jakub Dobes<\/a> is the confirmed starter for Montreal, which is 3-6-1 in the last 10 games. This includes two straight defeats<\/a> entering this last game before the break. Both Montreal and Tampa Bay are coming off games on Saturday night. Nick Suzuki<\/a> has scored 15 goals with 37 assists for the Habs.<\/p>\n

It’ll be a tough game to gauge with both teams playing the day before. However, Tampa Bay will go into the break with a win.<\/p>\n

Prediction: Lightning win 4-2.<\/em><\/p>\n

We’ll have more NHL predictions after the Four Nations break. Stick with the Last Word on Hockey for the latest news, analysis and rumours in the next few weeks.<\/em><\/p>\n

Prop Bets of the Night<\/h3>\n

We round of NHL predictions with some prop bets of the night. Let’s go to our featured game for some of our favourite props. For Tampa Bay, we’ll take Brandon Hagel<\/a> to score a goal in this one. On the Montreal end of things, take Cole Caufield<\/a> to get the over on 0.5 points in this final game before the break.<\/p>\n

Main photo by: Eric Bolte-Imagn Images<\/em><\/p>\n

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Welcome back to NHL Predictions. Each day,\u00a0Last Word on Hockey\u00a0takes a look at the games that are scheduled and offers insight and analysis to help predict who will be victorious in head-to-head matchups. In today\u2019s round of NHL Predictions, we are looking at the game between the\u00a0Tampa Bay Lightning\u00a0vs\u00a0Montreal Canadiens. Be sure to check out […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2352,"featured_media":433964,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4547,7,4548,4524,9],"tags":[6016,6391,8028,6239],"class_list":["post-462313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hockey","category-canadiens","category-nhl","category-nhl-predictions","category-lightning","tag-montreal-canadiens-predictions","tag-tampa-bay-lightning-predictions","tag-utah-hockey-club-predictions","tag-washington-capitals-predictions"],"modified_by":"Dan Mount, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2352"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462313"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":462314,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462313\/revisions\/462314"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}