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Tampa Bay Skates Past Pittsburgh 4-2 - Recap
The Penguins came up short Thursday against the Lightning, falling 4-2.
The Lightning were a -154 favorite in the win. The combined score dipped UNDER the total, which closed at 6.5.
Tampa Bay got goals from Mikhail Sergachev, Nikita Kucherov, Anthony Cirelli, and Steven Stamkos in the victory. Sergachev opened the scoring at 9:04 of the first period.
Andrei Vasilevskiy stopped 29 of 31 Pittsburgh shots in the victory.
Pittsburgh got goals from Evgeni Malkin, and John Marino in the loss, but it wasn't enough.
Matt Murray stopped 25 of 28 shots for the Penguins, but it wasn't enough to earn the victory.
Tampa Bay scored 0 times on 4 chances on the power play, while Pittsburgh went 0-for-5 with the man advantage.
Tampa Bay lost the shots on goal battle to Pittsburgh by a margin of 31-29.
Next game, Tampa Bay takes its act home to face New York looking for another win. For Pittsburgh, they head on the road to face Florida.