when they lost two defencemen and had to go with just five blueliners over the final 20 minutes. They will be without at least one key member, Erik Cernák, for Game 2 Thursday at Scotiabank Arena.
when they lost two defencemen and had to go with just five blueliners over the final 20 minutes.
Jeannot skated on the Lightning’s fourth line with Corey Perry and Pierre-Édouard Bellemare on Wednesday, while Patrick Maroon was moved to the third line to fill in for Eyssimont.Tampa Bay leaned heavily on rookie defenceman Darren Raddysh in the third period of Game 1 and, with three defencemen absent from practice Wednesday, Cooper added rookie defenceman Hayden Fleury to the mix.
“ was pretty easy, you know you are going out right the next shift, so you manage the game as well as you can, and it was only for 20 minutes at the end there … it was fun.”
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