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Toronto Maple Leafs at Tampa Bay Lightning NHL Predictions

2025-04-09 • Amalie Arena
Tampa Bay Lightning 3 - 4 Toronto Maple Leafs
🚨 Upset Loss (74% underdog)

📊 Pre-Game Predictions

Win Probability
TBL: 74.2%
TOR: 25.8%
Expected Goals
TBL: 3.39
TOR: 2.87
Total Goals
Median: 5.9
Over 5.5: 54%
Over 6.5: 42%

🥅 Goalie Matchup

TBL
Andrei Vasilevskiy - 15-7-2 | 0.913 SV% | 2.33 GAA
TOR
Anthony Stolarz - 6-5-1 | 0.884 SV% | 3.51 GAA
StatTBLTOR
Season SV%0.9130.884
Last 5 SV%
SV% vs Opponent
GAA2.333.51
Last 5 / vs opponent shown when available in goalie stats. Confirmed goalie row used when available; otherwise current projected starter is shown.

Goalie Game Metrics

TeamGoalieSASavesGASV%xGAHD FacedGSAx
TBLAndrei Vasilevskiy3127487.1%4.2630.26
TORAnthony Stolarz2825389.3%3.7530.75
SA uses shots on goal plus goals. xGA, high-danger faced, and GSAx use modeled scoring attempts against. GSAx is xGA minus goals against.

Head-to-Head History

Model accuracy in this matchup: 55% • TBL at home vs TOR: 2-3
DateScoreWinnerModel Pick
2026-03-07TOR 2 - 5 TBLTBLTOR
2026-02-25TBL 4 - 2 TORTBLTBL
2025-12-08TOR 2 - 0 TBLTORTOR
2025-04-09TBL 3 - 4 TORTORTBL
2025-01-20TOR 5 - 3 TBLTORTBL

Shot Quality by Period

PeriodTeamShotsHigh DangerxG
1TBL1600.94
1TOR1511.49
2TBL2701.48
2TOR1100.21
3TBL710.68
3TOR1711.96
4TBL420.66
4TOR310.60
Shots are modeled attempts: shots on goal, goals, and missed shots. Blocked shots are excluded. High danger is xG >= 0.20.

📈 Post-Game Analysis

Prediction Result
❌ Incorrect
Confidence: 74.2%
Total Goals
Actual: 7.0
Expected: 6.3
Score Breakdown
Tampa Bay Lightning 3 - 4 Toronto Maple Leafs
Expected: 3.4 - 2.9