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The Tampa Bay Lighting Came up Flat

05/25/2016 at 5:24am EDT

from Tom Jones of the Tampa Bay Times,

Call it flat. Call it uninspired. Call it what you will. But be sure you call it this: unacceptable. The Lightning lost Game 6 because it deserved to lose Game 6.

Yes, there was another team on the ice, a Penguins team loaded with talent, a Penguins team that played with determination and desperation as if its season was on the line. Which it was.

But that doesn't completely excuse a Lightning team that lacked the necessary urgency and energy to close out a series that was there for the taking.

Really, Lightning? That's all you have? That's the best you could do? A trip to the Stanley Cup was a mere 60 minutes away in the comforts of your own house and you played most of the night like it was a meaningless game in November, not an elimination game in May?

"They were a desperate hockey team and we didn't match that," Lightning forward Ryan Callahan said. "We lose an opportunity there."

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