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It's Win Or Go Golfing For The Tampa Bay Lightning

05/12/2022 at 8:24am EDT

from John Romano of the Tampa Bay Times,

Hockey fans understand misery. In a twisted sort of way, they embrace it.

When you worship the Stanley Cup above all else, the pain and exasperation of falling short can be a trophy unto itself. You measure your devotion by the amount of angst you put in your coffee.

So, no, it will not be the end of the world if the Lightning fall short in Game 6 against Toronto tonight. Even great teams sometimes stumble on their way up the mountain to the top.

And yet, I can’t help feeling there is something uniquely disturbing about this moment. If things do not change in a hurry tonight, the Lightning will have bookended their two Stanley Cups with underwhelming first-round collapses.

Now, it’s unrealistic to expect the winning to continue forever, but it’s not unreasonable to hope a team keeps its foot on the gas until the very end. It’s the difference between disappointment and regret.

And right now, the Lightning would be facing a very long summer of regret.

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