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Colorado Falls 3-2 to Lightning - Recap

Andrei Vasilevskiy made 35 stops Friday to lead the Lightning over the Avalanche 3-2 at Ball Arena.

Tampa Bay was an underdog by +166 and came through for bettors backing them. The game went UNDER the consensus closing total of 6.0.

Nikita Kucherov, Jan Rutta, and Ondrej Palat each scored for the Lightning in the victory. Rutta opened the scoring for Tampa Bay.

Andrei Vasilevskiy turned in a 35-save effort for the Lightning.

Cale Makar, and Valeri Nichushkin scored for the Avalanche, finding the net behind Andrei Vasilevskiy.

Darcy Kuemper stopped 26 of 29 shots for the Avalanche, but it wasn't enough to earn the victory.

On the power play, Tampa Bay went 1-for-4, while the Avalanche were 0-for-2 with the man advantage.

Colorado outshot Tampa Bay 37-29 in the game.