COLUMBUS, Ohio — The Tampa Bay Lightning, the NHL’s best team, lost their first two playoff games at home to the Columbus Blue Jackets and are vulnerable without their top scorer for Ga…
COLUMBUS, Ohio — The Tampa Bay Lightning, the NHL’s best team, lost their first two playoff games at home to the Columbus Blue Jackets and are vulnerable without their top scorer for Game 3.
Now they have the Tampa Bay on the ropes and are enticingly closer to winning the first playoff series in franchise history. The series shifts to Columbus on Sunday night . The Lightning will be without 128-point scorer Nikita Kucherov , who was suspended for a game for boarding the Markus Nutivaara on Friday night.
During their current run of 13 consecutive playoff appearances, the Pittsburgh Penguins lost in the first round three times. They’ll need to turn things around quickly to avoid a fourth. “It’s the first team to win four games, not two,” coach Mike Sullivan said when asked about his message to the team after Game 2. “We got to go back home, we got to control what we can. We got to win one game, and then we’ll go from there.”
“For the most part, we’ve played two pretty solid games,” Winnipeg centre Adam Lowry said after the Jets fell 4-3 on Friday night . “It comes down to a couple breaks. I feel like we’re right there. I don’t think we’re frustrated. I don’t think you can let that creep into this room.” Jordan Binnington made 26 saves for St. Louis, becoming the second goalie in franchise history to win his first two playoff games.Taking penalties against San Jose usually isn’t the right recipe for success, especially with the Sharks’ two potent power-play units led by dynamic defencemen Brent Burns and Erik Karlsson and a talented group of forwards.
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