On Wednesday night, the Tampa Bay Lightning beat the Montreal Canadiens 1-0 to win their second straight Stanley Cup championship. The Lightning played complete and total hockey in giving Montreal a gentleman’s sweep (4-1) and now get to celebrate again. One of the key cogs in the Tampa Bay Death Machine the past two seasons is former Wisconsin Badgers defenseman Ryan McDonagh.
This is the second straight season that Wisconsin was guaranteed to have a former player win the Stanley Cup. McDonagh, a native of St.