As expected, the Lightning quickly set the pace in-game one, getting the home crowd into it from puck drop. About 3 minutes in, the physicality was evident from both sides, but it was the Lightning who were really playing the body. That’s when Dan Girardi took an illegal check to the head, along with a roughing penalty (Brandon Dubinsky also got a roughing call), sending the Jackets to the first power play of the postseason.
The Jackets could not get any offense going, and the Lightning had four different sets of forwards on the ice in the span of about a minute and a half, before Alex Killorn masterfully knifed the puck away from Seth Jones, raced down the ice, and pulled off a beautiful forehand to backhand move, before lifting the puck over and past Sergei Bobrovsky’s pad and into the back of the net.