Tampa Bay may have finally looked like the champions who have terrorized the NHL for the last two seasons, but the Rangers still skated right with them until the third period. Victor Hedman #77 of the Tampa Bay Lightning skates pass the New York Rangers bench after Ondrej Palat #18 of the Tampa Bay Lightning scores the game winning goal late in the third period. Strome returned for one shift before retreating back to the locker room for the remainder of the game with what the team said was a lower-body injury. The Rangers were down to 11 forwards for a majority of the game after second-line center Ryan Strome took a cross check to the lower back from Palat early on in the second period. The power-play goal also tied Kreider with Rod Gilbert for the most man-advantage tallies in franchise history (34) and tied Adam Graves for the most goals in a single season (62). The Lightning’s Riley Nash was ultimately penalized for goalie interference at 8:23 of the second, which allowed Kreider to bury a rebound off a one-timer from Zibanejad for the 2-0 lead. Tampa Bay was clearly trying to crowd Igor Shesterkin’s crease all game and get in his face. “Obviously, lost a little momentum at the start of the third, just couldn’t get it back.” Tampa Bay Lightning left wing Ondrej Palat (18) scores the winning goal off New York Rangers goaltender Igor Shesterkin (31) in the third period of game 3 of the Stanley Cup Playoffs Eastern Conference finals. I think we’re a skill-and-speed team and we play better when the game is flowing and we can play five-on-five. “We have a real good power play, but as you can see, so do they. “I think we want to play five-on-five,” said Adam Fox, who plays a major role on both the power play and penalty kill. Trouba was called for three infractions in total, including a trip on Alex Killorn late in the third to negate the majority of the remainder of a four-minute power play for the Rangers. Ondrej Palat #18 of the Tampa Bay Lightning celebrates with his teammates after he scores the game winning goal late in the third period. Though the Rangers built a quick 2-0 lead off of goals from Mika Zibanejad and Chris Kreider, the Lightning made them pay for two Jacob Trouba penalties - one in the second and one in the third to knot the game at 2-all. It was the battle of the power plays in the second and third periods, with both teams scoring two each and combining for 10 penalties.
“But we could’ve stolen it tonight and been up 3-0.” “I wouldn’t say we let it get away because they played really well,” head coach Gerard Gallant said. The Rangers came incredibly close to taking a stranglehold on this series, but Tampa Bay is not a team that will bow out gracefully. The Lightning storm finally hovered over the Eastern Conference Final.įor the first time all series, Tampa Bay looked like the reigning back-to-back Stanley Cup champions and even though the Rangers hung in there for a majority of the game, they slipped up in the third period and Lightning top-line winger Ondrej Palat scored with 41.6 seconds left in regulation to hand the visitor’s a 3-2 loss and make it a 2-1 series.
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