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Is Game 4 a desperate enough situation for Lightning?

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When the skies are at their darkest, they are at their best. When they are backed into the corner, or backed up on the ledge, they are their most dangerous. Call them Team Desperation. The players of the Tampa Bay Lightning, it seems, enjoy a little bit of adversity. It is the biggest secret of the sport, that fuel called desperation. It drives this team, it focuses them, it unifies them. When they have that hollowed-out feeling, when their throats…

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Lightning resilient once again in Stanley Cup Playoffs

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They like to be surrounded. They love the doubts, the questions, the rolling of eyes. They like it when the skies look dark and the roads look crowded. They enjoy it when the praise is going toward the other guy, when the series is being conceded to them. Ah, yes. The Tampa Bay Lightning. When it is hardest for their fans, it is evidently the most fun for them. The Lighting got off the mat one more time Saturday night,…

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Don’t call Lightning playoff game against Chicago a must-win

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Look, it’s a want-to-win game. It’s a it-would-feel-good-to-win game. It’s a wouldn’t-this-series-look-nice-tied game. But a must win? No, the players of the Tampa Bay Lightning stop short of calling it a must win. Why, they could lose this game, and all they would have to do would be to win four out of five, three of those on the road. They could lose this, and they would still have time. There is a difference between being on a cliff, after…

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Lightning to play Blackhawks for Stanley Cup

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Another round, another member of the Original Six. This time, it is the Chicago Blackhawks who can throw their history book at the Tampa Bay Lightning. Every round, the Lighting has had to face one of the oldest franchises in the history of the NHL. Detroit. Then Montreal. Then New York. And now Chicago. The Blackhawks reached the Stanley Cup Finals Saturday night when they beat the Anaheim Ducks, 5-3, in Game 7 of the Western Conference Finals. Jonathan Toews…

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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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