Intellectually, you want to think the Tampa Bay Lightning are toast. Friday night, the Lightning saw their starting goalie, Ben Bishop, carried off the ice in the first period of the Eastern Conference Final against the Pittsburgh Penguins.
"There go the Stanley Cup hopes of the Tampa Bay Lightning."
If there was one thing anyone could agree on about the Lightning entering their series with the Pittsburgh Penguins, it was that they could not afford another major injury, and especially not to Ben Bishop. The Bolts were already pushing it with a Cinderella story as it was.
They entered Game 1 having already played without their top regular-season goal scorer (Steven Stamkos) for two playoff rounds, along with their second-leading scorer among defensemen (Anton Stralman). Then, in the first period, down went Bishop.
But while everyone keeps saying the Lightning are done because of the injuries, all they do is keep winning playoff games. The latest was the 3-1 Game 1 victory over the Penguins at Consol Energy Center, with Bishop's backup, Andrei Vasilevskiy, making 25 saves on 26 shots ...
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