From Both Sides Before Game 7 Of The Eastern Conference Finals

05/29/2015 at 7:58am EDT

from Martin Fennelly of the Tampa Tribune,

It would be one of the all-timers.
If the Lightning beat the Rangers tonight at Madison Square Garden, where the Rangers never lose Game 7s, it would be the greatest victory in franchise history this side of June 7, 2004, the night the Stanley Cup was held high over Lightning heads.
If the Lightning beat Rangers goaltender Henrik Lundqvist tonight at the Garden, it might be like that night in Philadelphia in 2003, when Ronde Barber silenced Eagles fans and demons as he ran that interception back to seal a Bucs trip to the Super Bowl. It would be a moment that would live forever in Tampa Bay.
It’s the kind of challenge the Lightning need to embrace with heart and soul if their season is to continue on to the Cup finals. The task is not impossible. It will just take 20 men with an idea that they just can’t shake: This is our time.

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from Larry Brooks of the New York Post,

Here it is.

This is the one.
This is the one the Rangers need in order to play for the Stanley Cup again. This is the one more victory they need in order to have the chance to right the wrong that has haunted them since last June 13.
Game 7 of the conference finals against the worthy Lightning at the Garden on Friday, winner on to the Cup finals, loser on to a summer of regret.
It has been a series as unpredictable as entertaining, all but impossible to project period-by-period — forget about game-by-game — and one through which the scoreboard often has not been aligned with the play on the ice.
The Rangers own an abundance of experience and operate with the positive reinforcement fostered by their famous 6-0 record in Games 7 over the past four springs. No doubt that history is on their side.

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