Whatever their flaws may be this season, the Tampa Bay Lightning kept battling. Did they often make wins much harder than they needed to be? Yes. Did self-inflicted mistakes cost them wins in this very series? Also yes. Yet here we are, heading to a Game Seven thanks to a come-from-behind, overtime victory in Game Six over the Toronto Maple Leafs. Nikita Kucherov tied it late and Brayden Point, who else, won it in the waning moments of the bonus session.
It was the special teams that proved to be the difference in the game as the Lightning scored at 4-on-4 (Ondrej Palat), shorthanded (Anthony Cirelli), and 5-on-3 (Kucherov).