It’s been a few days since the Colorado Avalanche defeated the Tampa Bay Lightning to win the 2022 Stanley Cup, and with that distance, it seems an appropriate time for a postmortem. Given that I’ve been one of the more critical voices concerning the underlying issues of the team, I feel it’s best I divulge where I was right and wrong about the team. This doesn’t denigrate what the Lightning accomplished this season, they’re one of the greatest champions of this era of hockey, and no one can take that away from them.
A look back at the 2021-22 Tampa Bay Lightning
