Wanna beat the Lightning? Be cagey, Avs. Be clever. Above all, be desperate, SeanKeeler writes:
How bad do you want it, Nathan MacKinnon?and largely stayed there, the Stanley Cup Finals have been dictated by the team — Avalanche or Lightning — that controlled the first 20 minutes.
Game 1: The Gabe Landeskog and Val Nichushkin Show set the tone for the party, firing the hosts to a 3-1 lead at the first intermission, and a 4-3 Avs win in overtime. Game 2: Andre Burakovsky’s goal capped a 3-0 first-period cushion en route to a 7-0 Colorado laugher.Game 3: Tampa Bay’s Ondrej Palat broke a 1-1 deadlock with five minutes left in the first period, setting the stage for a four-goal Lightning onslaught in the second stanza and Darcy Kuemper getting pulled during a 6-2 Tampa rout.
Game 5: Lightning D-man Jan Rutta snapped a scoreless tie late in the first, firing a shot from the right dot that Kuemper let bounce off his glove and into the back of the net for a 1-0 Lightning lead. On a night when goals were precious,The Lightning are stubborn royalty, clinging to Lord Stanley the way“It’s experience,” Tampa Bay coach Jon Cooper explained Saturday before his team boarded its flight back home for Sunday night’s Game 6, having trimmed the Avs’ series lead to 3-2.
“It’s like I always say — you can go to the driver’s school or whatever and you can write the test and get an ‘A.’ But it doesn’t mean when you jump behind the wheel you’re a of a driver. Experience matters. And I think for us, this experience for our team and our staff matters. And, hey, not guaranteeing we’re going to win . But I think our mindset and being in these situations before makes our preparation better.
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