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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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