It wasn’t that long ago that everything was perfectly fine. Well, not perfectly fine, but going pretty well. The Lightning had won a bunch of games, the power play was clicking right along, and a Stanley Cup defense was well on it’s way to being successful. Oh, how things can change in a day.
First off, there was the loss on the ice. An uninspiring, except for Brayden Point, lackadaisical, 5-2 defeat to the Florida Panthers where their neighbors to the south made them look like teams normally do against the Lightning - slow.