Callahan made the play happen with a spectacular forecheck, stealing the puck from goalie Petr Mrazek behind the net and feeding Killorn in the crease. – Killorn ” I think that is when I’m effective.
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The first and second periods ended in a scoreless tie. “[Killorn] is going to the net based on the forecheck and how it goes, so I throw it there and he does a great job of getting position on the [defense]”.
The Red Wings’ power play was woeful, going just 1-for-25 in the series.
Goaltender Ben Bishop came up big in the clinching situation stopping 34 of 34 shots on goal.
Callahan blocked Mike Green’s shot from the point with his skate after Glendening won a faceoff with 5.7 seconds left. Coach Jon Cooper has ruled him out for Tampa Bay’s first-round action. And it was loose defensively, allowing three breakaways in what Cooper dubbed a “dreadful” second period.
“We obviously lost the game on the special teams, both the power play and penalty kill”, Detroit coach Jeff Blashill said.
Darren Helm and Gustav Nyquist scored or Detroit. Then you have the cross-checking penalty to Jonathan Ericsson on which the Lightning scored the game-winner.
“…these guys have been scoring for me for the last three years, so I knew eventually it would come and I just had to keep (the puck) out of our net”. It was my turn tonight. And when you see that, you say OK, lets take another look. They seemed to be taking notes when they played the Blackhawks.
“Seeing their goal there at the end, that was rough”, Zetterberg said. So I went back and looked at the goals that were scored and said, I cant say thats the direct correlation as to thats why we had the success at that time, putting it all on his shoulders that he was the reason why. “We’ve got to produce more, including me….”
The Lightning got a massive boost in their game four win over the Red Wings at the Joe on Tuesday night and are now a win away from advancing to the second round after many people had written them off coming in.
The final win was a close one for the Lightning, who finished the game with a 1-0 final decision over Detroit and a large chunk of the game played without top six forward Tyler Johnson (who was pulled in and out of the lineup in the final two periods of the game). The fact that they punish us for it is the thing I’m most concerned about. “The Lightning’s second-round playoff series schedule will be announced at a later date”. The Lightning played with surprisingly little effort in Game 3, but not Game 4. “We’ve got to make sure we don’t take easy ones”.
“We’re not trying to focus on getting extra rest, we just want to win hockey games”, Lightning defenseman Victor Hedman told NHL.com.
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Game 4 was an encapsulation of the Wings team that showed up after every well-played game in the regular season. There’s no denying the positive impact that Datsyuk has made on the game. “[Letting in] that kind of goal is frustrating”. “We did lots of penalties, we weren’t skating enough”. Unfortunately we did penalty again and they made us pay.
