It’s time to hand out another round of somewhat arbitrary hardware. The Lightning dispatched the Bruins in five games (look guys, if this is going to be a rivalry, the Bruins are going to have to show up in the playoffs at some point) and while it wasn’t necessarily easy, Tampa Bay was head-and-shoulders above Boston talent-wise throughout the series.
The Lightning’s top line outproduced Boston’s “perfection line” and while Yanni Gourde and his gang wasn’t as dominating as they were against Columbus, they still outplayed any Bruin line they were matched up against.