nhl Game Recap
Recap - Lightning Defeat Florida 5-4
Brayden Point was the difference, potting a pair for Tampa Bay on Sunday as the Lightning skated off with a 5-4 victory over the Panthers at BB&T Center.
Tampa Bay won as a -127 favorite, while Over-Under bettors who played OVER the total of 5.5 were rewarded at the payout window.
Tampa Bay got goals from Brayden Point(2), Nikita Kucherov(2), and Blake Coleman in the victory. Coleman opened the scoring at 7:42 of the first period.
Andrei Vasilevskiy stopped 35 of 39 Florida shots in the victory.
Florida got goals from Aleksander Barkov, Owen Tippett, Carter Verhaeghe, and Jonathan Huberdeau in the loss, but it wasn't enough.
Florida got a 34-stop effort from Sergei Bobrovsky in the loss.
On the power play, Tampa Bay went 3-for-4, while the Panthers were 1-for-3 with the man advantage.
Tampa Bay lost the shots on goal battle to Florida by a margin of 39-39.