Last year Tampa had to celebrate the Stanley Cup on neutral ice due to the pandemic. So the Lightning decided to strike twice and run it back for the fans in Florida.
For the second time in nine months, Tampa Bay is Stanley Cup champions, joining the 2016-17 Pittsburgh squad as the only repeat champs this century.
Tampa Bay is on the verge of its second straight Stanley Cup, but Montreal isn’t going out without a fight. Can the Lightning get it done at home tonight?
Montreal Canadiens goaltender Carey Price stopped all 13 shots the Tampa Bay Lightning put on net to keep the score 0-0 on Wednesday night after the first period of Game 5 of the Stanley Cup Final. The defending champion Lightning outshot the Canadiens 13-4 in a dominant start to their second opportunity to wrap up the series and win the Cup for the second time in 10 months. Tampa Bay had its fair share of chances.
In 2015 coach Earl Watson asked rookie Devin Booker a simple question: “How good do you want to be?” His response was, “One of the greatest to ever play the game.”
Phoenix got 26 free throw attempts to Milwaukee’s 16 in Game 1 of the NBA Finals.
