from Pierre LeBrun of ESPN,

Five keys for the Tampa Bay Lightning to win Monday night and extend the Stanley Cup finals to a seventh and deciding game:

1. Get a goal from Steven Stamkos: With Tyler Johnson ailing and Nikita Kucherov's status unknown after his Game 5 injury, the Triplets are in peril. All of which puts even more emphasis on the Lightning captain to light the lamp for the first time in these Cup finals. It’s unfair to put so much on Stamkos' shoulders, but the big stars have to show up when the chips are down. Stamkos was terrific in the Eastern Conference finals against the New York Rangers, scoring some big goals and playing a physical brand of hockey. The summer will be a long one for him if he can’t score a goal in the finals. Credit Stamkos for pointing to himself after Game 5. "It starts with me," he said of his team’s need to score goals.

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