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Nashville Falls 4-3 to Lightning - Recap

The Predators came up short Saturday against the Lightning, falling 4-3.

Tampa Bay was favored by -183 and came through for bettors backing them. The game went OVER the consensus closing total of 5.5.

Tampa Bay got goals from Steven Stamkos, Victor Hedman, Tyler Johnson, and Callan Foote in the victory. Johnson opened the scoring at 3:33 of the second period.

Andrei Vasilevskiy stopped 23 of 26 Nashville shots in the victory.

Ryan Ellis, Viktor Arvidsson, and Mathieu Olivier scored for the Predators, finding the net behind Andrei Vasilevskiy.

Pekka Rinne stopped 29 of 33 shots for the Predators, but it wasn't enough to earn the victory.

On the power play, Tampa Bay went 2-for-7, while the Predators were 2-for-5 with the man advantage.

Tampa Bay outshot Nashville 33-26 in the game.