nhl Game Recap
Florida Skates Past Tampa Bay 5-1 - Recap
The Panthers got a 3-goal performance from Alex Wennberg as Florida handed Tampa Bay a 5-1 defeat on Saturday at BB&T Center.
Florida was favored by -113 and came through for bettors backing them. The game went OVER the consensus closing total of 5.5.
Florida got goals from Alex Wennberg(3), Jonathan Huberdeau, and Sam Bennett in the victory. Wennberg opened the scoring at 11:44 of the first period.
Sergei Bobrovsky turned in a 28-save effort for the Panthers.
Tampa Bay got a goal from Luke Schenn in the loss, but it wasn't enough.
Andrei Vasilevskiy stopped 30 of 35 shots for the Lightning, but it wasn't enough to earn the victory.
On the power play, Florida went 1-for-7, while the Lightning were 0-for-1 with the man advantage.
Tampa Bay lost the shots on goal battle to Florida by a margin of 35-29.