"Tampa Bay Lightning fans: If your team's first-round playoff series with the Detroit Red Wings goes six games, you will receive no goals from Steven Stamkos. You will either have to win the series in six despite that fact or send it to a seventh game. Good night and good luck."
If any Lightning rooter was told this before the Eastern quarterfinal series with the Red Wings, attention probably would quickly have turned to whether the Rays can make a run for the pennant, or whether the Buccaneers should take Jameis Winston with the first pick in the NFL draft. The Lightning winning a series without a goal from Stammer? The NHL's best pure goal scorer in the estimation of many, not to mention a gamer in the clutch?
Not. Likely.
But here the Bolts are, even with Detroit three games apiece following their gutsy 5-2 Game 6 win over the Red Wings at Joe Louis Arena. Stamkos, the NHL's second-leading goal-scorer of the regular season with 43, had another doughnut in the "G" column in this one, though he did have an assist and finished a plus-two.
While he did make a contribution to the huge win Monday, it i ...
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