Video montage shows the amount of adversity the Lightning fought through to take game 2
When you're the back-to-back champs, you know what it takes to win a Stanley Cup. It isn't just about offense and defense, it's about what you're willing to fight through in order to keep going. Tampa Bay put on a show in that department Thursday night while beating the Florida Panthers 2-1 and taking a 2-0 lead in their second round series.
A video montage put together by Sportsnet shows Corey Perry injuring himself in warmups, Erik Cernak taking a puck to the face, Steven Stamkos sacrificing himself to block shots which clearly left him in pain, as well as a few players leaving the ice because of injury only to come back a short while later.
If the Panthers lose game three, they will be in a very tough position. It won't be impossible to win the series, but the odds will be heavily against them. On the flip side, reducing the Bolts lead to 2-1 will make it a whole new series. Game three takes place Sunday afternoon, with game four the very next day.
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| Dylan Coghlan | 1 | - | 1 | |
| Pavel Dorofeyev | 1 | - | 1 | |
| Nic Dowd | 1 | - | 1 | |
| Brett Howden | 1 | - | 1 | |
| Gabriel Landeskog | 1 | - | 1 | |
| Valeri Nichushkin | 1 | - | 1 | |
| Rasmus Andersson | - | 1 | 1 | |
| Ross Colton | - | 1 | 1 | |
| Jack Eichel | - | 1 | 1 | |
| Tomas Hertl | - | 1 | 1 | |
| Ben Hutton | - | 1 | 1 | |
| Nathan MacKinnon | - | 1 | 1 | |
| Mitch Marner | - | 1 | 1 | |
| Brandon Saad | - | 1 | 1 | |
| Colton Sissons | - | 1 | 1 | |
| Devon Toews | - | 1 | 1 | |
| Jack Ahcan | - | - | - | |
| Ivan Barbashev | - | - | - | |
| Brent Burns | - | - | - | |
| Jack Drury | - | - | - | |
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