from Tom Jones of the Tampa Bay Times,

The series is only four games old and it feels like it has been going on for a month.

So what's next? What happens now?

Now end it.

Game 5 is Thursday night at Amalie Arena. It should be the last game of the series. For the Lightning, it better be. It needs to be.

"We have a chance to put this away at home," Lightning center Tyler Johnson said. "That's why what we will try to do."

Forget trying. Just do it. Yeah, sure, the fourth win is always the toughest on to win in a series. That's the cliché, right? You'll hear it a thousand times in the next 24 hours.

"The next game," defenseman Braydon Coburn said in a rocking Lightning locker room, "is the biggest game."

You'll also hear how the Red Wings will be desperate. How their season is on the line. How no dog is more dangerous than a cornered wounded dog or some such nonsense.

To heck with all that.

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