CHICAGO — Having reduced pivotal Game 5 to slapstick (“It’s the ‘Benny and Heddy Show’!”) the madcap Lightning have safely returned to their comfort zone: The Land of No Tomorrow.
They’re where they love to be, need to be, apparently, everyone doubting them, wondering how they ever got this far. It’s their sweet spot.
Let’s not get sucked in again.
Don’t count them out.
They’re in Chicago for Game 6 of the Stanley Cup Final. The Blackhawks are a win from the Cup. They haven’t lifted Stanley on home ice since 1938. Their city is bracing for a party, a riot, something.