The sinking feeling set in after the Washington Capitals scored their second goal on Wednesday night. Until then, I was pretty certain that Lightning would figure something out an pull out a late victory. After all, that’s been their modus operandi for most of the season, right? Play well, slump a little, and then in the end get done what they needed to do.
Maybe they just ran out of gas or ran into a better team, but whatever the reason was they came up short this time. And for the second time in three seasons, they fall one win short of the Stanley Cup Finals.