TAMPA, Fla. — After his team won its sixth straight Game 2 in a playoff series, dating to last season — a resounding 4-1 defeat of the Islanders on Saturday — Lightning coach Jon Cooper was asked if there is any secret to that success.
“If we could just turn that into Game 1s,” Cooper said after goalie Ben Bishop and the Lightning rebounded from a 5-3 loss on Wednesday night to tie the best-of-seven series at a game apiece. “This was one we absolutely needed . . . Now the pressure is on us to go out and win one at Barclays.