NEW YORK - Steven Stamkos was sitting in his locker on Sunday morning at Madison Square Garden, patiently answering questions as reporters drifted in and out of a lengthy scrum.
The Tampa Bay Lightning captain stressed several times that run-and-gun hockey wasn’t going to get it done for his team.
Those earlier games in which the Lightning seemed to score at will? A thing of the past.
“We have to get back to the reality we just can’t score five or six goals a game,” Stamkos said. “We have to win some tight-checking games and hopefully we can have that (in Game 5).