It’s the three-year anniversary of one of the biggest goals in Tampa Bay Lightning history and there is nothing else going on so let’s go ahead and do some rememberin’.
The Setting
It’s August 11, 2020. Lightning fans had been without “real” hockey since the COVID pandemic shut down the world in the middle of March and we were all sitting at home waiting for a distraction and not knowing how this whole “Bubble Hockey” thing would work out. After posting a 2-1 record in the seeding round with wins against Washington and Boston followed by a loss to Philadelphia, the Lightning had secured the second seed in the Toronto bracket and had an opening round match-up against the Columbus Blue Jackets, the team that had unceremoniously dumped them out of the playoffs in the first round the previous season.