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Lightning vs Red Wings Final: 2-1 - Recap

The Red Wings came up short Saturday against the Lightning, falling 2-1.

Tampa Bay was favored by -415 and came through for bettors backing them. The game went UNDER the consensus closing total of 5.5.

Tampa Bay got goals from Ross Colton, and Brayden Point in the victory. Colton opened the scoring at 4:07 of the first period.

Andrei Vasilevskiy stopped 25 of 26 Detroit shots in the victory.

Adam Erne scored for the Red Wings, finding the net behind Andrei Vasilevskiy.

Thomas Greiss stopped 27 of 29 shots for the Red Wings, but it wasn't enough to earn the victory.

On the power play, Tampa Bay went 0-for-3, while the Red Wings were 0-for-2 with the man advantage.

Detroit lost the shots on goal battle to Tampa Bay by a margin of 29-26.