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NHL Playoffs 2022: Latest Expert Reaction to Lightning vs. Rangers Game 5

The Tampa Bay Lightning moved one win away from their third straight Stanley Cup Final on Thursday night.

Tampa Bay used three unanswered goals to get past the New York Rangers inside Madison Square Garden for its third straight win in the Eastern Conference Final.

As The Athletic's Joe Smith put it, "these guys just refuse to die."

The two-time reigning Stanley Cup champion stared down a two-game deficit and a two-goal trailing margin in Game 3 before it flipped the series around.

The Lightning scored three straight goals to capture Game 3, won Game 4 at home by a 4-1 score and then netted a late game-winning tally in Game 5 to take over the series.