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SUNRISE, Fla. -- Aleksander Barkov remembers the disappointment of years past.
The Tampa Bay Lightning had eliminated his Florida Panthers from the Stanley Cup playoffs in each of their previous three meetings, and if the Panthers wanted to cement themselves as one of the NHL's best, this year's result needed to be different.
"At some point you knew you were going to have them again," Barkov said, "and you've got to be able to get over that hump, and we did it this year.