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Tampa Bay Ices New York 4-2 - Recap

The Lightning beat New York 4-2 on Tuesday, earning a victory backstopped by Andrei Vasilevskiy's 24 saves.

The Lightning were a -196 favorite in the win. The combined score went OVER the total, which closed at 5.0.

Tampa Bay got goals from Jan Rutta, Victor Hedman, Brayden Point, and Ondrej Palat in the victory. Point opened the scoring at 8:58 of the first period.

Andrei Vasilevskiy turned in a 24-save effort for the Lightning.

Brock Nelson, and Mathew Barzal scored for the Islanders, finding the net behind Andrei Vasilevskiy.

Semyon Varlamov stopped 23 of 27 shots for the Islanders, but it wasn't enough to earn the victory.

Tampa Bay scored 1 times on 5 chances on the power play, while New York went 1-for-4 with the man advantage.

Tampa Bay outshot New York 33-26 in the game.