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At Little Caesars Arena, they score three goals per game and allow just 2. Unsurprisingly for a player who leads the team in points despite missing three games, Bertuzzi also paces the club in points recorded at home. Both are running at a rather absurd The offence has been quite spread out for the Red Wings, with 11 players producing at at least a half-point-per-game pace in home games. By contract the Canadiens have only seven players who sport that mark at home.

Goals is beginning to come for Montreal in more of a trickle rather than a drip. Encouraging signs are coming on a power play that looks much more dangerous, actively trying to score goals rather that shifting the puck around the perimeter hoping a lane magically opens up.

On the other side of the ice, the Red Wings sport a record entering this game. Detroit needs to win some games to give themselves some space in the standings. They are fresh off of a win over the Devils in their last game prior to four straight having to be postponed.

This should be a very entertaining game between two quality teams. Both squads have the ability to be contenders at the end of the season. Neither the Tampa Bay Lightning nor the Detroit Red Wings have ever been eliminated in the first round of the postseason in two consecutive years.

Last year, both endured an early exit with the Lightning on the wrong end of a sweep to Montreal, and Detroit managing one victory but falling in five games to Boston. In , Detroit defeated the Anaheim Ducks in the final game of the first round only to lose to the eventual-champion Chicago Blackhawks in the second round. The Lightning, who entered the series as the favorite after taking all three of the four regular season meetings with Detroit, have lost significant ground at home during the series.

Tampa Bay dropped Games 1 and 5 on their home ice and faced a deficit before overpowering Detroit in Game 6 to force the final matchup of the series.