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Tampa Bay Skates Past Toronto 4-2 - Recap

The Maple Leafs came up short Thursday against the Lightning, falling 4-2.

Tampa Bay won as a +137 underdog, while Over-Under bettors who played UNDER the total of 6.5 were rewarded at the payout window.

Tampa Bay got goals from Alex Killorn, Nicholas Paul, Anthony Cirelli, and Michael Eyssimont in the victory. Cirelli opened the scoring at 6:12 of the first period.

Andrei Vasilevskiy stopped 29 of 31 Toronto shots in the victory.

Toronto got goals from Morgan Rielly, and Auston Matthews in the loss, but it wasn't enough.

Ilya Samsonov stopped 34 of 38 shots for the Maple Leafs, but it wasn't enough to earn the victory.

On the power play, Tampa Bay went 0-for-2, while the Maple Leafs were 0-for-2 with the man advantage.

Tampa Bay outshot Toronto 38-31 in the game.