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Rangers break open tight game to force showdown

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So the Eastern Conference finals of the NHL’s Stanley Cup playoffs will go to a Game Seven… And the New York Rangers score again… What’s that? Anyway, the Tampa Bay Lightning failed to close out New York… And there goes another one. Goal! What? As we were saying, the Rangers forced a deciding game… And there goes Derick Brassard, once again, on a slap shot. In the mind’s eye, it keeps going on. The Rangers keep skating, and keep scoring,…

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Despite series lead, Game Six is important

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It might as well be Game Seven, the captain says. It might as well be the final chapter. It might as well be time to do, or time to die. How important is it that the Tampa Bay Lightning closes out the New York Rangers in Game Six of the Eastern Conference Finals tonight? To Steven Stamkos, it is as important as survival. Forget the one-game safety net. No one should pass up a chance to win. Think of it…

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Ben Bishop deflects pucks, doubts in Lightning victory

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It wasn’t so much the skill of the New York Rangers that Lightning goaltender Ben Bishop had to deal with Sunday night. It was the doubts. And it wasn’t so much the pressure of the moment that Bishop had to put to rest. It was the questions. Bishop was bigger than all of them, bigger than the critics and the skeptics and the worriers. On a night when it was easy to wonder about his game, Bishop was a giant…

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Rangers get to Lightning, Ben Bishop for 5 goals

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There for a while, he was Patrick Roy. For all of the adjectives spent on the magnificent Triplets, for all of the prose pointed at the great Tyler Johnson, he was the constant of the Tampa Bay Lightning. They would point Ben Bishop toward the net, and he would turn into Martin Brodeur. Or maybe Dominic Hasik. Or Terry Sawchuk. There was something smothering about Bishop, who seemed to fill the open spots between the pipes just fine. He was…

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Lightning’s Jon Cooper on way to be franchise’s best

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Away from the lectern, he is friendly. Funny. Approachable. In such moments, you would never think of him as dynamic, as charismatic, as the unifying factor on a young team. There, Jon Cooper is merely Jon, the old attorney, the former Lacrosse player. You wonder if he is ever mistaken for just another fan. But behind the bench, he is calm, and he is cerebral. And he is on his way to being the finest coach this franchise has known.…

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Victor Hedman is backbone of the Lightning’s defense

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Some towns know fireworks. Some towns know explosions. Some towns bust the scoreboard. In Tampa Bay, we know defense. In Tampa Bay, we believe in the ability to stop the other team. We trust defense. We have seen defense. In some ways, that is what makes the Tampa Bay Lightning such fun. They are young, and they are fun, and they lead the NHL in goals. When does that happen around here? Not with the Bucs, who have been running…

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Has Tyler Johnson become the Lightning’s best player?

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By the time he scored his first goal, racing down the open ice ahead of Marty St. Louis to notch a short-handed goal, someone had already brought up the notion. By the time he scored his second one, faking a pass and then lining a beautiful top-shelf goal, it was a full-blown debate. By the time he scored his third one, crashing the crowded net and poking the puck into the goal, there may have been no dissenting votes. Just…

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