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Legacies can change during Game 7s

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Wednesday night changes everything. Wednesday night, their legacies are on the line. No matter what you think of them now, good or bad, it could change Wednesday night. No matter whether you wear their jerseys, call their name or heckle them in your odd moments, a deciding game can be the final judge. It is that way for the Tampa Bay Lighting. It is that way for the Detroit Red Wings. It was deciding games that made Joe Montana who…

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Lightning forces Game 7 with big win

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Prepare for drama. Prepare for noise. Prepare for a sword-fight on a castle wall. The Tampa Bay Lightning‘s playoff series against the Detroit Red Wings is going to a Game Seven on Wednesday night at Amalie Arena, an advance-or-go-home affair that is among the best of the playoffs of professional sports. The Lightning earned their way into the deciding game with a 5-2 victory in which their offense finally found room to skate. This time, tiny Tyler Johnson was the leader, scoring two goals to…

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Three Tampa Bay teams draw well on Saturday night

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As it turns out, no one was keeping score at at home. Saturday night, everyone was at the ballpark. As an area, Tampa Bay gets beaten up a lot. But three games on Saturday night drew a total of 44,437 fans which, as things go, wasn’t a terrible night at the turnstiles. The Rays, surprisingly, won the night with 19,772 fans, their fourth-largest crowd of the year behind Opening Night and two games against the Yankees. The team won its’…

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Steven Stamkos, Lightning offense struggles in playoff loss to Detroit

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All the goals are just a memory now. All the highlights are just moments from a nicer time. All the points are just numbers to pretty up the relatively insignificant regular season. The Tampa Bay Lightning has become unplugged. At the most important time of the year, they suddenly can find no room. The lanes are clogged and the roads are jammed, as they say, and the Bolts have been pushed to the brink of elimination by the Detroit Red…

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Gary Shelton: Lightning struggle again on the road in playoff defeat

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The road is not their friend. The power play is not good for them. The playoffs are all uphill. And furthermore, ouch. It all conspired to beat the Tampa Bay Lightning Tueseday night in a 3-0 loss to the Detroit Red Wings as the Bolts fell behind 2-1 in their best-of-seven playoff series. The Lightning now faces a must-win in its Thursday night game in Detroit. If it were to lose, the Bolts would trail 3-1 in the series, meaning…

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Lightning finally wins one in the post-season

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TAMPA It was going to come. Of course it was going to come. A team this good doesn’t keep coming up empty. A sport this close doesn’t end up one-sided. Disappointment can’t last forever. And yet, Jon Cooper wondered. When, exactly, would winning start? For the Lightning, it finally happened Saturday. After going 0-for-five over the previous two seasons, Tampa Bay finally took one to the bank Saturday afternoon in a 5-1 victory over Detroit. Finally, Ben Bishop was solid…

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Gary Shelton: Lightning finds a way to lose its playoff opener

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Some losses, a team slinks away. Some losses, it talks of how much better it will do. Some losses, it vows to do away with its mistakes. This one. First, the Lightning has to figure out what happened. This time, a 3-2 loss in their playoff opener left the Lightning players muttering to themselves, trying to figure out how such an advantage on one of the game’s most meaningful statistics — shots — didn’t turn things in their direction. The…

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