from Joe McDonald of ESPN,

MCDONALD: What do you say to those critics who think the Lightning don't have enough players with postseason experience to make a deep run?

STAMKOS: Well, anything can happen when you get into the playoffs. That's the beauty of the sport and we've seen that over the years. Every team's goal is to get into the playoffs because they know you get a hot goaltender, you get a couple of bounces your way, your special teams get hot and anything can happen. I think, for a lot of us and the young nucleus that we have, a lot of these guys came up and played with each other in the American Hockey League, won a championship down there, so it's not like it's foreign territory for them. We have a great mix of youth and veteran guys, so this is probably the best team that I've played on in my career with regards to the depth we have, the skill set and speed. We saw it a couple of years ago when no one was thinking we would make it to the conference finals, one game from beating the Stanley Cup champions that year, so we kind of have that mentality heading in. We embrace flying under the radar a little bit.

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