The Tampa Bay Lightning went into Madison Square Garden and laid a beatdown on the New York Rangers Monday night, tying the Eastern Conference Final at 1-1 with a 6-2 victory in Game 2.
Lightning center Tyler Johnson was the star of the night. The 24-year-old recorded the first postseason hat trick in team history, per NHL Public Relations:
The Rangers drew first blood in the series with a 2-1 Game 1 victory, as Dominic Moore scored the decisive goal with just over two minutes remaining in the third period.
Lightning head coach Jon Cooper didn't mince words in his critique of his team's Game 1 performance, per Joe Smith of the Tampa Bay Times:
There's the times you think you played okay, and you watch the tape and you want to vomit. And that was a little bit of how (Saturday) went. For two periods I thought we were a little better than we were until I watched the tape. The Rangers played extremely well, but we were stubbing our toe all night. So we were just handing them tickets to the movie, and we were a turnstile and watching them go by. We can't do that.
We've got to be much better ...
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