![]() Going back to the 2014-15 season they have won a league best 66 playoff games (no other team has won more than 42 during that stretch) and a league-best 333 regular season games (only the Capitals and Penguins have won more than 305 games during that stretch). This has been a magnificent seven-year run for the Lightning franchise. The Lightning now have an opportunity do to that. Only three times (Penguins 1991, 1992 Red Wings 1997, 1998 Penguins 2016, 2017) during that stretch has that team repeated as champions. This is just the eighth time since 1990 that a team has made consecutive trips to the Stanley Cup Final. ![]() Now the Lightning have a chance to repeat as Cup champions and add to the legacy that this core of Steven Stamkos, Nikita Kucherov, Brayden Point, Victor Hedman, and Vasilevskiy has built for itself. They were unable to beat Vasilevskiy to get the game-tying goal. It was not until the closing minutes with the net empty that the Islanders finally started to generate some good looks. This marks the only time a Game 7 has ended with a 1-0 score with only goal being scored while shorthanded.įrom there, the story was all about Vasilevskiy and the Lightning defensive play as they went significant stretches without allowing a shot on goal. Once Cirelli received the pass he bought time in the offensive zone and found Gourde flying off the bench for the shot. The play started deep in the Tampa Bay zone when Ryan McDonagh showed a ton of patience to hold on to the puck instead of just sending it down the ice, waiting for an opening to find Anthony Cirelli with a stretch pass. Talk about a bad time for that mistake to happen. But what made it so shocking is that the Islanders were the only team in the NHL this season that had not allowed a single shorthanded goal throughout the regular season or playoffs (75 games). While he was keeping the Islanders off the scoreboard, the only player to get on the scoresheet was Yanni Gourde, who scored the game’s only goal midway through the second period with his team shorthanded.Īnytime you can get a shorthanded goal in a Game 7 it is going to be significant. Just another example as to why he is the best goalie in hockey and a regular Vezina Trophy finalist. In the series-clinching win before that streak started (the Eastern Conference Final a year ago against the Islanders) he allowed only one goal. Going back to last year’s playoffs he has now ended four consecutive series with a shutout, making him just the ninth goalie in NHL history to have at least four series-clinching shutouts in a career and the first to do it in four consecutive series. Lightning goalie Andrei Vasilevskiy stopped every shot he faced for his third shutout of the playoffs, with all of them coming in series clinching games. It was a clinical defensive effort from the Lightning on Friday night as they limited the Islanders to just 18 shots on goal and completely dominated the game from a territorial perspective, even if it did not show up on the scoreboard. They will face the Canadiens starting on Monday night in Tampa Bay ( 8 p.m. Thanks to their 1-0 win over the Islanders in Game 7, the Lightning will attempt to win back-to-back titles. On the radio dial, the game can be heard on 1050 AM ESPN, 88.7 FM WRHU, and 103.9 FM LI News Radio.Is set and the Lightning will have an opportunity to defend their title. Saturday’s contest will be available on MSGSN. Head over to DraftKings to place your bets now! HOW TO WATCH He’s +1400 to score the first goal, +200 to score. ![]() New York Islanders forward Anders Lee has two goals in his last two games. The over for the contest is 6 at -120, with the over at under at +100. The Lightning are the home favorites -125, +185 on the puck line. BETTING CORNERĭo you think the New York Islanders will beat the Tampa Bay Lightning? You can get the Islanders at +150, -215 at +105. They finished last season with a 17-19-5 record in road contests. The last time these teams met was April 29 at UBS Arena, the Islanders’ final game of the 2021-22 campaign. Tonight’s game is the first of three matchups between the two clubs this season, and the Islanders’ first visit to Amalie Arena since November 15 of last year. Tonight, the New York Islanders visit the Tampa Bay Lightning in their first road game of the 2022-23 campaign. Patrik Maroon - Pierre-Edouard Bellemare - Cole KoepkeĪndrei Vasilevskiy NEW YORK ISLANDERS NOTES Semyon Varlamov TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING LINES (PROJECTED)īrandon Hagel - Brayden Point - Nikita KucherovĪlex Killorn - Steven Stamkos - Vladislav Namestnikov ![]()
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