In a season like no other in recent memory, this Tampa Bay Lightning team continues to shed the labels thrust upon them from the failures of playoffs past. They’re too soft, they’re not mean enough, they can’t win in the playoffs when adversity strikes, and they’re a mentally weak team under Jon Cooper.
This team, this organization, has grown sick of those labels and it appears as though they’re on a mission to prove everyone wrong this year.
Nikita Kucherov’s game winner in the dying seconds of Game 2 will be remembered for years to come.