With Saturday’s game already put away by the start of the third period 5-1, the Tampa Bay Lightning got one back from Vlad Namestnikov. The Gila River Arena did a bang-up troll job playing the Tom Petty song “Even the Losers.” The lyrics go: “Even the losers get lucky sometimes/ Even the losers keep a little bit of pride/ They get lucky sometimes.”
That should actually be the song of the Lightning’s season. They’ve now lost more than won. They’re last in the Atlantic. They’re one point ahead of the last-place Islanders in the conference. A win here and a hard-fought overtime loss there is becoming meaningless now.