Proud of the fight shown by Lightning. No doubt this group hates to lose and I didn't think they'd play as well as they did. Especially after so many are banged up, they couldn't afford injuries this season. Plus, I'm worried Point is injured worse, he wasn't the same puck hound on D after getting hurt. Even Kuch's slamming into wall probably banged him up. I'll tell ya, they've put their bodies on-the-line over so many playoffs. I know the Lightning lost their best chance to win series when they blew that 4-1 3rd period lead. Leafs are a good team and you can't do that in a series when every game counts. Sometimes, the other teams players step-up. They did that by winning 3 road games in OT and deserve the spoils.
Like I said, we're proud of the players and not even upset. Nothing went Lightning's way this whole 2nd half of year and it's amazing we're this competitive considering the injuries & departures. Lightning organization did an OK job extending this cores window and that was no easy task with salary cap(Also not going up because covid). Our GM trading for players, with good contracts, help extend an already impressive playoff resume that had 3 deep playoffs runs. The last 4 yrs, those trades helped Lightning reach 4 more playoffs, win 3 ECF titles, get 3 SCF's appearances, and won 2 "Cups". Some tough decisions had to be made, and we lost loved players, but we can't complain because I think they did about the best one could do with the situation. Disappointing end but I think a long off-season won't be such a terrible thing.
Go Lightning!!!!!
