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No goals, no problem, no looking back for former Ranger Callahan

Ryan Callahan continued to struggle having an impact on the Eastern Conference final, despite what his coach, Jon Cooper, had predicted before Game 5.

“I’m glad you brought that question up because probably tonight’s the night he’s going to score,” Cooper said Sunday morning, hours before his team won 2-0 without a goal from Callahan and took a 3-2 series lead with a chance to eliminate the Rangers in Game 6 Tuesday in Tampa.

“Because he does that on big stages,” Cooper had said about the former Rangers captain, “and he’s probably going to do it in the building that he grew up [in] as a hockey player.