We changed our policy here at the home office of the '5 Things' blog: People in Lightning sweaters are allowed --- heck, encouraged --- to read every bit of this piece about Tampa Bay's Game 1 choke:
1. The playoff rule demands that your stars play like stars.
In the Blackhawks’ case, their future stars apparently must play like stars, too.
With Jonathan Toews and Patrick Kane getting broken up and reunited and accomplishing nothing, Teuvo Teravainen scored the tying goal and set up Antoine Vermette’s winner shortly after in the third period of Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Finals.