I see some folks haven’t taken last night’s loss well. Understandable given the over-reactionary nature of fan bases in the hockey sphere. However, last night’s defeat at the hands of the Toronto Maple Leafs wasn’t a game that saw the Tampa Bay Lightning blown out or embarrassed. It was a defeat that showed a team that was incapable of taking advantage of their opportunities when presented.
Sure, we can talk about the officials and how two of the calls on Kevin Shattenkirk were questionable, and I’d agree on that point, but Blake Coleman’s penalty that led to Tavares’s first goal of the night and one that gave the Leafs the lead four minutes after tying it, was rightly called and a bad decision by Coleman.