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Tampa Bay Skates Past Dallas 5-4 - Recap

The Stars came up short Tuesday against the Lightning, falling 5-4.

Tampa Bay was favored by -130 and came through for bettors backing them. The game went OVER the consensus closing total of 6.0.

Tampa Bay got goals from Ian Cole, Ross Colton, Alex Killorn, Nicholas Paul, and Steven Stamkos in the victory. Colton opened the scoring at 1:20 of the first period.

Brian Elliott stopped 28 of 32 Dallas shots in the victory.

Jason Robertson, Joe Pavelski, Radek Faksa, and Mason Marchment scored for the Stars, finding the net behind Brian Elliott.

Jake Oettinger stopped 33 of 38 shots for the Stars, but it wasn't enough to earn the victory.

Tampa Bay scored 1 times on 5 chances on the power play, while Dallas went 2-for-2 with the man advantage.

Dallas lost the shots on goal battle to Tampa Bay by a margin of 38-32.

Tampa Bay heads into a battle against the Flames. Dallas, meanwhile, will have their next action against Florida.