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Tampa Bay Falls 7-4 to Jets - Recap

Winnipeg earned a 7-4 victory over Tampa Bay behind a 2-goal performance from Paul Stastny on Tuesday at Canada Life Centre.

Winnipeg was an underdog by +151 and came through for bettors backing them. The game went OVER the consensus closing total of 6.0.

Paul Stastny(2), Kyle Connor, Mark Scheifele, Adam Lowry, Josh Morrissey, and Pierre-Luc Dubois each scored for the Jets in the victory. Scheifele opened the scoring for Winnipeg.

Connor Hellebuyck stopped 20 of 24 Tampa Bay shots in the victory.

Ryan McDonagh, Victor Hedman, Alex Killorn, and Ross Colton scored for the Lightning, finding the net behind Connor Hellebuyck.

Andrei Vasilevskiy stopped 26 of 31 shots for the Lightning, but it wasn't enough to earn the victory.

On the power play, Winnipeg went 1-for-4, while the Lightning were 0-for-3 with the man advantage.

Tampa Bay lost the shots on goal battle to Winnipeg by a margin of 33-24.

Winnipeg heads into a battle against the Devils. Tampa Bay, meanwhile, will have their next action against Calgary.