2020 Stanley Cup Final: Dallas Stars vs Tampa Bay Lightning | TBL leads 2-1

[God King Fudge]

So Tampa has one day off between ECF G6/SCF G1 and looked shaky early.

one day off again, great 1st period.

same time between, two different starts.

how do you explain that?

The same reason Tampa didn't blow out the Islanders by 6 goals every game. Each series is an emotional and physical drain. The team that's more rested has an advantage over the unrested team but that advantage wears off pretty quickly once both teams are in the flow.

 

[jcs0218]

The Boogeyman is coming!

 

[BurntToast]

Tampa needed to win game two and they won game two. Now it’s a best of 5.

 

[LightningStrikes]

Victor Hedman with +17 in this playoffs

That's really impressive!

He’s doing alright!

 

[PaulD]

Hedman doesnt win Norris?

Im not one to second guess Trophies, there are almost always 3 or 4 worthy candidates.

But really, if you are picking a team .........is their anyone who would pick Josi while Hedman was still available.

Hedmen was the obvious pick for Norris.

 

[LarKing]

DAL outplayed TB in game 1.

TB outplayed DAL in game 2.

Each team has played 3 good periods out of 6.

So far, feels even.

Khubodin outplayed Vasi game 1. Otherwise it was mostly Tampa.

 

[JoVel]

Khubodin outplayed Vasi game 1. Otherwise it was mostly Tampa.

Dallas had Tampa on the robes for 40 minutes straight in game 1.

 

[PaulD]

DAL outplayed TB in game 1.

TB outplayed DAL in game 2.

Each team has played 3 good periods out of 6.

So far, feels even.

Shaping up similar to last years finals.

Hope it goes 7 and that Stampkos gets in.

 

[PaulD]

Khubodin outplayed Vasi game 1. Otherwise it was mostly Tampa.

Tampa looked good in one period of game one. The third.

 

[PaulD]

Yet somehow one team scored twice on the powerplay while getting plenty of shots on goal during them. If you have trouble entering the zone during a powerplay, that's on you, not the penaltykilling team. Stars were sloppy and gifted the puck away several times.

Like Kucherov was in the first period.

 

[PaulD]

Blake Comeau got injured but no one got suspended for that. I'm sure that's what he's complaining about.

That wax a great hit on Comeau. Who through that? McDonough?

 

[PaulD]

Keep hanging your hat on what-ifs. The Stars got outplayed and didn't deserve the win.

True, but almost did anyway.

Dallas wins game 3. Book it.

 

[PaulD]

Lightning did a great to overcome losing that called off 4th goal in 3rd, that sometimes does a team in but Lightning prevailed. Now we have a 5 game series........

Lightning can't give skilled teams 9.5 minutes of PP time in the 2nd period again. Giving that much PP time in the 2nd period can be deadly because your star forwards can get cold from 1st intermission sitting, barley seeing ice-time during 2nd period because PKers are doing their thing 1/2 of 2nd period (While other team star forwards are getting warmer on PP), and then your star forwards sit during 2nd intermission to boot. That is way to long without star forwards touching the puck (4-6 minutes of shift-time maybe during a 40-60 time span). Lightning are fortunate the other teams star forwards didn't ride that hot-stick for a comeback.

Lightening will be fine giving "9.5 minutes of powerplay time" away...........as long as they are getting just as many powerplays.......which they are.

 

[PaulD]

There were no powerplay goals in game 1. Dallas won by 3.

This Lightening team reminds me of the 04 team that won the Cup. They would go games withpout scoring an even strength goal. But the powerplay was lethal and won them the Cup.

 

[Unspecified]

Lightening will be fine giving "9.5 minutes of powerplay time" away...........as long as they are getting just as many powerplays.......which they are.

With Dallas you can expect PP time. This has been a hindrance for us for quite some time.

 

[J T Money]

So Tampa has one day off between ECF G6/SCF G1 and looked shaky early.

one day off again, great 1st period.

same time between, two different starts.

how do you explain that?

Dallas was very well prepared and Tampa was ill prepared.

 

[JoVel]

There were no powerplay goals in game 1. Dallas won by 3.

This Lightening team reminds me of the 04 team that won the Cup. They would go games withpout scoring an even strength goal. But the powerplay was lethal and won them the Cup.

This doesn't make any sense. Tampa's powerplay was at 18% before last game and they've gone like 15 PP's without a goal twice this post season.

 

[LarKing]

Tampa looked good in one period of game one. The third.

And the other two periods were pretty even. Tampa a bit gassed and Dallas a bit rusty. My point is Tampa outplayed Dallas that game but Khubodin stood on his head, credit to him.

 

[LarKing]

Dallas had Tampa on the robes for 40 minutes straight in game 1.

On the ropes? It was fairly even through 40. The difference was the goaltending.

 

[Danrs112]

On the ropes? It was fairly even through 40. The difference was the goaltending.

No it wasn't. Not even close. The goaltending only factored in the 3rd when Tampa was finally able to start applying pressure.

 

[Gnome17]

Im expecting one of the two teams to win today.

 

[PaulD]

This doesn't make any sense. Tampa's powerplay was at 18% before last game and they've gone like 15 PP's without a goal twice this post season.

Whoops. I was not clear in my post.

I was referring to the finals (in 04 against Flames and the finals now against Stars).

 

[DFC]

There were no powerplay goals in game 1. Dallas won by 3.

This Lightening team reminds me of the 04 team that won the Cup. They would go games withpout scoring an even strength goal. But the powerplay was lethal and won them the Cup.

It's been the opposite up until now. Game 2 was the first sign of life we've seen from our PP since probably midway through the Boston series.

 

[PaulD]

It's been the opposite up until now. Game 2 was the first sign of life we've seen from our PP since probably midway through the Boston series.

I was referring the finals of 04 and these finals. As I stated earlier (my post was not clear on that)

 

[DFC]

I was referring the finals of 04 and these finals. As I stated earlier (my post was not clear on that)

I think the confusion is you saying this team reminds you of that.