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Florida Panthers vs Tampa Bay Lightning Wrap - Tampa Bay Wins 5-2

Andrei Vasilevskiy stopped 35 of 37 shots fired at him by Florida, as the Lightning skated to a 5-2 victory Thursday at Amalie Arena.

Tampa Bay was favored by -176 and came through for bettors backing them. The game went OVER the consensus closing total of 6.5.

Tampa Bay got goals from Kevin Shattenkirk, Ondrej Palat, Erik Cernak, Pat Maroon, and Nikita Kucherov in the victory. Kucherov opened the scoring at 6:39 of the first period.

Andrei Vasilevskiy stopped 35 of 37 Florida shots in the victory.

Vincent Trocheck, and Mike Hoffman scored for the Panthers, finding the net behind Andrei Vasilevskiy.

Florida got a 25-stop effort from Sergei Bobrovsky in the loss.

Tampa Bay scored 1 times on 3 chances on the power play, while Florida went 0-for-4 with the man advantage.

Tampa Bay lost the shots on goal battle to Florida by a margin of 37-30.