BREAKING: Two-time defending NHL champion Tampa Bay Lightning beat the New York Rangers 2-1 in Game 6 to set up Stanley Cup final against the Colorado Avalanche.
Nikita Kucherov and Ondrej Palat assisted on the winner with 6 1/2 minutes left, withStamkos also scored on a“I obviously was a little disappointed in myself for taking the penalty. ... It’s easy to say now, but for some reason I wasn’t as rattled as I usually am in those situations,” Stamkos said. “I was just confident in our group that we would find a way, whether it was in regulation or was in overtime. We deserved to win the game. That was the feeling we had from puck drop.
The only teams to win more elimination games in a single postseason were the 1975 New York Islanders , 2014 Los Angeles Kings and 2003 Minnesota Wild . Vasilevskiy went long stretches without being tested. He faced just seven shots in the opening period, six in the second and eight in the third.