nhl Game Recap< BACK

Tampa Bay Lightning vs New Jersey Devils Wrap - Tampa Bay Wins 6-3

Tampa Bay skated to a 6-3 victory over New Jersey on Tuesday in NHL action at Prudential Center.

Tampa Bay was favored by -305 and came through for bettors backing them. The game went OVER the consensus closing total of 6.0.

Victor Hedman, Nikita Kucherov, Steven Stamkos, Pierre-Edouard Bellemare, Alex Killorn, and Pat Maroon each scored for the Lightning in the victory. Maroon opened the scoring for Tampa Bay.

Andrei Vasilevskiy stopped 22 of 25 New Jersey shots in the victory.

Dawson Mercer, Yegor Sharangovich, and Jack Hughes scored for the Devils, finding the net behind Andrei Vasilevskiy.

Jon Gillies stopped 24 of 30 shots for the Devils, but it wasn't enough to earn the victory.

Tampa Bay scored 0 times on 1 chances on the power play, while New Jersey went 1-for-3 with the man advantage.

New Jersey lost the shots on goal battle to Tampa Bay by a margin of 32-25.

Next game, Tampa Bay takes its act home to face Edmonton looking for another win. For New Jersey, they head on the road to face Pittsburgh.