Last night, the Lightning beat the Maple Leafs 4-1 in a showdown of the top two teams in the Eastern Conference. The Bolts played well at 5v5 but took way too many penalties and relied on Andrei Vasilevskiy to keep them in the game. Fortunately, he did. In his first game back, Vasy made multiple highlight reel saves to keep the Leafs off the board.
Execution
Tampa Bay overall had no business winning this game. Like Cooper said, “They had 59 minutes, we had one.” That’s quite accurate of tonight’s effort.