The Tampa Bay Lightning have been defeated by the Philadelphia Flyers in the last game of the round-robin tournament thus failing to clinch the 1st seed on the Eastern Conference. Now, the Lightning need to wait for result of tonight’s game between the Toronto Maple Leafs and the Columbus Blue Jackets to find out the opponent for the first round of playoffs. As usual Matt has a detailed recap of the last game [Raw Charge]
In the grand scheme of things it doesn’t really matter since the game was only for seeding, but the Lightning have struggled with momentum swings in all three round robin games.