TAMPA -- Experience in the Stanley Cup Playoffs is invaluable. It teaches a player and a team lessons on how to be resilient, how to understand situations and how to properly analyze where you are in the present and what you need to do to get to where you want to go.
For the Tampa Bay Lightning, their experience matters now, because it is allowing them the ability to see the truth two games into the Eastern Conference Final. Without it, the Lightning might be naïve enough to believe splitting those first two games on the road against the Pittsburgh Penguins is good enough.