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Lightning Fall 3-2 Against New York - Game Recap

The Rangers earned a 3-2 victory over the Lightning on Friday at Madison Square Garden.

New York was an underdog by +116 and came through for bettors backing them. The game went UNDER the consensus closing total of 5.5.

New York got goals from Mika Zibanejad, K'Andre Miller, and Kaapo Kakko in the victory. Miller opened the scoring at 5:59 of the first period.

Igor Shesterkin stopped 29 of 31 Tampa Bay shots in the victory.

Tampa Bay got goals from Nikita Kucherov, and Nick Paul in the loss, but it wasn't enough.

Tampa Bay got a 25-stop effort from Andrei Vasilevskiy in the loss.

New York scored 0 times on 4 chances on the power play, while Tampa Bay went 1-for-1 with the man advantage.

New York lost the shots on goal battle to Tampa Bay by a margin of 31-28.