'It was a damn circus out there.” Game 4 between the Lightning and Hurricanes was fun for the fans, but Carolina will need to be more disciplined in the future to rally past Tampa Bay. (EricFrancis)
’s sharp-angled snipe gave Carolina a two-goal cushion that appeared to have turned the series around, with the Lightning facing the possibility of seeing the series tied 2-2.Don’t take penalties.Jake Bean
in the box sparked the crowd and the bench, as part of a three-point effort from the playoff scoring leader whose club finished the night 3-of-6 on a power play now operating at 41 per cent this spring. A roof job by fourth line luxury Johnson was followed by another Stamkos power play goal before the second period ended with the hosts up 5-4.
“To be honest he may have taken the game over,” said Cooper of Kucherov, whose early third-period goal gave the Lightning a 3-1 series stranglehold. “There was a point in the second period we clearly lost control and he had been hit in a tough manner by one of their guys and he just channelled all his energy in the right way. It was a 5-on-5 shift and he was just a beast out there. Then we had our power play opportunities and he was just making plays all over the place. I thought he might have been the best player on the ice tonight, and when Kuch is doing some of the things he was doing tonight he’s borderline unstoppable.
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