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Predators Fall 6-3 Against Tampa Bay - Game Recap

The Lightning earned a 6-3 victory over the Predators on Saturday at Amalie Arena.

Tampa Bay was favored by -318 and came through for bettors backing them. The game went OVER the consensus closing total of 5.5.

Tampa Bay got goals from Mathieu Joseph, Ryan McDonagh, Tyler Johnson, Alex Killorn, Brayden Point, and Blake Coleman in the victory. Johnson opened the scoring at 6:55 of the first period.

Andrei Vasilevskiy stopped 28 of 31 Nashville shots in the victory.

Erik Haula, Yakov Trenin, and Alexandre Carrier scored for the Predators, finding the net behind Andrei Vasilevskiy.

Pekka Rinne stopped 22 of 27 shots for the Predators, but it wasn't enough to earn the victory.

Tampa Bay scored 1 times on 1 chances on the power play, while Nashville went 1-for-2 with the man advantage.

Tampa Bay lost the shots on goal battle to Nashville by a margin of 31-28.