Game 4 in Tampa Bay’s First Round series against Detroit ended with a massive Lightning pile-up in a corner of the Joe Louis Arena rink, a stunned, silent home crowd watching helplessly as the only noise in the building came from the wild celebration on the ice.
Nearly 30 minutes earlier, that outcome would have been incomprehensible.
The Lightning were nearly left for dead, down 2-0 and less than six to go in regulation, grade-A scoring chances few and far between. But Tyler Johnson ignited the attack, Ondrej Palat tied the game and Johnson ended it with his fourth goal of the series.