The Tampa Bay Lightning appear to have fallen quite a bit from their halcyon days of 2020 and 2021 when they won back-to-back Stanley Cup championships. Head coach John Cooper's team has been eliminated in the first round of the playoffs in each of the last two years, and a plethora of expensive contracts may force general manager Julian BriseBois to take significant action if he wants the Lightning to remain a high-level team in the National Hockey League. The Lightning have a number of dominant players in Nikita Kucherov, Victor Hedman, Steven Stamkos, Brayden Point and Andrei Vasilevskiy, and keeping them together may be a part of the BriseBois plan.
SUNRISE — Jon Cooper walked off the ice Monday night at Amerant Bank Arena and into the offseason, dodging plastic rats after the traditional end-of-series handshake line. The Lightning coach looked up into the stands before disappearing down the tunnel, shaking his head in frustration. After dropping the first three games to the Panthers, the Lightning might not have had enough to dig out and ...
The Panthers beat the Tampa Bay Lightning 6-1 on Monday night to win the first-round NHL playoff series against their state rival in five games.
No | Player | P |
---|---|---|
81 | D | |
41 | RW | |
71 | C | |
10 | LW | |
24 | D | |
23 | C | |
7 | D | |
11 | C | |
38 | LW | |
77 | D | |
84 | LW | |
31 | G | |
86 | RW | |
64 | LW | |
20 | LW | |
48 | D | |
21 | C | |
43 | D | |
98 | D | |
73 | LW | |
91 | C | |
88 | G | |
51 | LW | |
44 | D |