Tampa Bay entered Game 2 in Montreal’s Bell Centre with two major concerns lingering over the team: Would the power play ever score again and could Steven Stamkos go scoreless during the playoffs?
The Lightning emphatically dismissed both of those concerns in a flurry to take a two-games-to-none lead in their Second Round series against the Canadiens.
The power play, which was 2-for-34 previously in the playoffs, tallied four times on Sunday, a series worth of power-play goals scored in a little more than 27 minutes.
And Stamkos got on the score sheet in the most fitting way possible, a breakaway replete with a series of maneuvers that shook the Habs’ Carey Price out of his skates and left the goalie trying to save invisible pucks.