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Not A Good Night For The Tampa Bay Lightning

05/23/2015 at 8:18am EDT

from Martin Fellelly of the Tampa Tribune,

The Eastern Conference finals is even. The Rangers just grabbed the home-ice edge again. They grabbed the Lightning and shook, liberally, with a 5-1 win in Game 4 — with a Marty goal thrown in for good measure.

Lightning fans could hardly muster righteous boos at that point. They were beaten down.

All those great Lightning chances, 19 shots alone in a frantic second period, even as Amalie Arena rocked. All those body blows, but nothing left at the end. Nothing. Empty tank.

Defensive breakdowns. Another bad night for Ben Bishop.

They just weren’t good enough.

“We definitely had our chances to win this game,” Lightning defenseman Anton Stralman said.

And now Rick Nash, the Rangers’ sleeping scorer, is wide awake after a two-goal night.

And Henrik Lundqvist is back to being Henrik Lundqvist.

And Bishop has had consecutive five-goal games.

And Marty just got his first goal of the postseason.

Can any of this be good news?

And this just in: The Triplets are human.

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