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Lightning’s Penalty Kill might be the death of the Red Wings

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If Thursday night is to be the death of the Detroit Red Wings’ season, it will be an easy one to label. They will have been penalty killed. The Wings’ power play simply hasn’t gotten started the entire series. Despite repeated opportunities, the team is one-for-21 with a man advantage against the Tampa Bay Lightning. Those scrambling, frenetic efforts are the reason the Lightning has a 3-1 lead in the series. “They’ve saved us,” coach Jon Cooper said. “It’s kind…

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Lightning takes 3-1 lead over Detroit behind Nikita Kucherov’s goals

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How do you say “resiliency” in Russian? How do you say “breakout star?” Perhaps it is time that the Tampa Bay Lighting learned. After all, considering the way that Nikita Kucherov took over Game Four of their NHL Stanley Cup series, all of Tampa Bay may be soon be speaking the language. Kucherov scored two goals and had an assist to lead the Bolts to a 3-2 lead over the Detroit Red Wings Saturday night. That gives Kucherov five goals…

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Detroit strikes back to make it a series against Tampa Bay Lightning

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Did you think it was going to be easy? Did you think it was going to be a runaway? The Detroit Red Wings answered back Sunday night, beating the Lightning 2-0 and reducing Tampa Bay’s lead in their playoff series to two games to one. Tampa Bay managed only 16 shots, only seven of them in the final two periods. “They played really hard,” Lightning coach Jon Cooper said. “Their desperation level was higher than us. The more desperate team…

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Lightning erupts late behind Tyler Johnson to beat Detroit again

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Call them the new Triplets. Call them the Johnson line. Call them the Detroit destroyers. Whatever you call the Tampa Bay Lighting’s Tyler Johnson-Nikita Kucherov-Alex Killorn line, they seem to be taking over the NHL playoffs. Certainly, they are outskating the Detroit Red Wings. It is early in the season, but it is fair to say that if Detroit cannot do a better job of slowing them down, this series may be over with in a hurry. The Lightning took…

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Lightning doesn’t let goal reversal stop them in victory over Detroit

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No goal. It can come so fast, so deadly. Victor Hedman put the puck in the top right corner of the net, taking a feed from Jonathan Drouin, and the Tampa Bay Lightning had snapped a 2-2 tie with the Detroit Red Wings. The Lightning had the lead with 13:05 to play. And then the call was reversed. No goal. The replays showed that Drouin had been offside as he passed the puck before Hedman, and the lead was wiped…

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5 key players for the Lightning in playoff series with Wings

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They’ve been here before. It was a year ago. The Tampa Bay Lightning had the home ice advantage over the Detroit Red Wings in the first round of the playoffs. And they won. Can they do it again in their playoff series that starts tonight? This time, it will be harder without captain Steven Stamkos and defenseman Anton Stralman. But it’s possible if the players who were so good a year ago are good again. Here we go, then. The…

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Tampa Bay’s Jonathan Drouin can change his story against Wings

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The wackiest story ever told is halfway done. All Jonathan Drouin has to do from here is be a star. For Drouin, who skates into the NHL playoffs Wednesday night with his Tampa Bay Lightning against the Detroit Red Wings, it has been a vexing season. He was idle. He was demoted. He was ticked. He left his team. He was suspended. His agents made threats. He was on the trading block, but not enough teams showed enough interest. He…

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