I hope that Rangers fans are feeling it today. It’s a feeling we know too well, having an Eastern Conference Final game snagged away at the last minute by the Tampa Bay Lightning. Although to put a little more sting into it, the Lightning have now done it twice to the Rangers in one series, and twice in three games. The same guy got it, too. Ondrej Palat, both times.
We’re not yet out of the woods. The Lightning once fell behind 2-0 in the conference final to Barry Trotz’s Capitals. They won Games 3, 4, and 5 to take a 3-2 series lead and didn’t score another goal over the final two games of the series.