Tampa Bay Lightning
Tampa Bay Lightning Try To Win Stanley Cups. How Hard Is It?
Winning a championship is the peak achievement for a professional sports team. Repeating the next year is a rarity. But trades get made, and players retire. Injuries happen, and so do upsets. Postseason play is a grueling gantlet to run, and it keeps expanding. Winning a third straight title is one of the toughest feats […]
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Lightning Will Go for a Third Straight Stanley Cup Against the Avalanche
No matter the sport, winning back-to-back championships titles is rare because it’s so hard. Injuries, egos, contract demands and the N.H.L. salary cap often derail second title runs. The Tampa Bay Lightning, though, are close to accomplishing something even more difficult: Winning three Stanley Cups in a row. The two-time champions beat the Rangers, 2-1, […]
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Russian Goalies Like Shesterkin and Vasilevskiy Dominate the NHL Playoffs
“Banning team sports, particularly ones that represent Russia, is certainly justified,” he said. “But it would be hard to exclude the hockey players. The hardest one to justify would be banning Vasilevskiy or Shesterkin.” Frye has traveled to Russia regularly since 1985 and has been to about a half-dozen hockey games there, both before and […]
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The Lightning Are Trying to Three-Peat. A Ranger Is, Too.
The Tampa Bay Lightning are talented, rugged and playoff tested. As the two-time defending champions, they possess a rare understanding of what it takes to carry the Stanley Cup around the rink — twice in two years. But Barclay Goodrow, the Rangers forward, is also talented, rugged and playoff tested. And he is a two-time […]
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Rangers Hand Hurricanes First Home Loss of the Playoffs to Advance
The question entering Monday night wasn’t whether the Rangers could win an elimination game or a high-stakes Game 7; it was whether they could beat the Carolina Hurricanes away from Madison Square Garden. The answer is yes they can. The Rangers’ rather magical N.H.L. playoff run has, for the first time since 2015, carried them […]
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