NEW YORK — Five minutes and 30 seconds had elapsed in Anton Stralman’s postgame interview at his locker. He answered question after question about Tampa Bay's 2-0 victory in Game 5 of the Eastern Conference Final that pushed the Lightning to a 3-2 series lead, one win from a trip to the Stanley Cup Final.
Yet at no point during those five minutes and change did the Lightning defenseman answer a question about captain Steven Stamkos.
It wasn’t particularly odd, as goaltender Ben Bishop had a 26-save shutout after allowing 10 goals in his previous two games and the Lightning's penalty kill squashed all four Rangers power plays on Sunday.
There's also the whole thing about being on the brink of a Stanley Cup Final berth that people want to talk about.
But hello? Stamkos spent most of the first two rounds removing daggers from his back because he wasn’t scoring, yet on Sunday night at Madison Square Garden, he had a beauty of an assist and tapped home a power-play goal.
Doesn’t anyone want to talk about how Stamkos has six goals in seven games and four goals in his past fou ...
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