When one go-ahead goal was disallowed, the Tampa Bay Lightning kept charging and got another.
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After dropping two tough games on the road, the Detroit Red Wings will return home to Joe Louis Arena on Sunday night for Game 3 of their Eastern Conference first round playoff series against the Tampa Bay Lightning. “On the bench, it was ‘Keep going!’ And we did”. “Guys weren’t rattled. Our response after that was outstanding”.
Killorn took a feed from Tyler Johnson and slipped the puck past Jimmy Howard at 8 minutes, 52 seconds of the third.
Corey Crawford had a strong game in net and Duncan Keith also scored for Chicago in his first game back from a six-game suspension for a unsafe high stick. After their chat, Brown went back to the locker room and didn’t come back in the first period. This is not the kind of play that is going to help his team.
Tampa Bay entered the playoffs without two of the best players. “We’ve got to make sure that we play with great intensity”.
Tomorrow is Detroit’s chance to step up and look like a team that can play together both offensively and defensively. If we can get the win here and obviously take care of our home ice, do our job here, where weve played really well, then it shifts to a best-of-three.
Thirty seconds into the five-on-three, Tampa Bay scored on a one-timer by Kucherov. That doesn’t mean he won’t re-sign with Tampa Bay, but there certainly are a lot of variables at play with the Lightning.”They scored three…”
It took the Red Wings less than two minutes to turn a 1-0 deficit into a 2-1 lead, with Green scoring his 10th goal in 72 career playoff games at 2:11 of the second period, and Abdelkader beating Bishop 1:56 later with a shot through traffic that cleared the goalie’s right shoulder. Thats it. The series isnt over after two games so lets focus on trying to win a hockey game..
Whilst the Tampa Bay Lighting battled their Floridian rivals, the Panthers, for Atlantic’s top spot, the Detroit Red Wings were engaged in a vicious dog fight with Boston and Philadelphia for a place in the playoffs.
“We have to stop making mistakes on our defensive end”, Detroit defenseman Niklas Kronwall said.
The Wings got their fifth power play of the night early in the second period.
“We created chances. I thought we had some good ones, but you always want to see at least one goal there”, Detroit’s Henrik Zetterberg said. There were 13 penalties called after two periods, and each team saw power plays end after a few seconds because of more transgressions. Howard had to come up with several big saves in the minutes afterward as teammates provided little support. Stralman is sitting out the series while recovering from a broken left leg.
Game 2 is set between the Red Wings and Lightning. The Lightning is in the playoffs for the ninth time.
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Johnson, who has a goal and two assists in the series, isn’t the only reason why. The same goes for Gustav Nyquist, who had 21 goals this season but has one in his last 19 games.
