MIAMI (CBSMiami) – For rookie goaltender Spencer Knight, things could not have started much worse.
In the first minute of his playoff debut Monday night at the BB&T Center in Sunrise, he got struck by Tampa Bay Lightning. The team scored on its first shot, when the game was just 53 seconds old.
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“You can’t do anything about it,” the young goalie coolly reflected. “I just told myself to forget about it, move on, just settle in, and above all, have fun. ”
That’s what he did. Knight became a wall the defending Stanley Cup champs could not penetrate.