Hands up if you took Nikita Kucherov in your playoff pool.How about Steven Stamkos? Brayden Point? Victor Hedman and Andrei Vasilevskiy? Did you load up with nothing but Tampa Bay players?Yeah, you…
How about Steven Stamkos? Brayden Point? Victor Hedman and Andrei Vasilevskiy? Did you load up with nothing but Tampa Bay players?Before the playoffs began, 19 of Postmedia’s 23 hockey writers picked the Lightning to win the Stanley Cup. Three others had them losing in the final.
They were no holes in their line-up. No concerns. They were the NHL’s version of the Golden State Warriors. “This is a five-alarm fire,” head coach Jon Cooper told reporters after Friday’s stunning 5-1 loss in Tampa Bay. “We had a wonderful regular season statistic-wise — our wins, both our special teams finished first — but the regular season is different than playoffs. Things just happen so fast … all of a sudden you’re down 0-2 at home and alarms are going off.”
Since taking a 3-0 lead in the first period of Game 1, the Lightning have been outscored 9-1. They don’t look like the team that lost just 20 games. Instead, they look like one that is two losses away from the greatest choke job in the history of the NHL. Under Blue Jackets head coach John Tortorella, whose pre-game speech in Game 1 seemed straight out of the NFL, Columbus has turned this series into a street fight, something that Tampa Bay’s skilled line-up is not accustomed to playing.
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