nhl Game Recap
Tampa Bay Skates Past New York 2-1 - Recap
The Lightning earned a 2-1 victory over the Islanders on Wednesday at Rogers Place.
Tampa Bay was favored by -159 and came through for bettors backing them. The game went UNDER the consensus closing total of 5.0.
Tampa Bay got goals from Victor Hedman, and Nikita Kucherov in the victory. Hedman opened the scoring at 18:25 of the first period.
Andrei Vasilevskiy stopped 27 of 28 New York shots in the victory.
Matt Martin scored for the Islanders, finding the net behind Andrei Vasilevskiy.
Semyon Varlamov stopped 19 of 21 shots for the Islanders, but it wasn't enough to earn the victory.
On the power play, Tampa Bay went 0-for-3, while the Islanders were 0-for-4 with the man advantage.
New York outshot Tampa Bay 28-21 in the game.