Youthful experience and bliss combining to keep Lightning in the race. “So maybe we are young and we lost some older guys like Boyle, Filppula and Bish, but we do have that experience, we used to playing in those games and we want to play in those games. But no matter, we have to battle, every team does, young our old. Every team does and you have to bring it every night.’’ [Lightning Insider, subscription]
How Yanni Gourde is seizing his improbable Lightning opportunity. "Coaches aren't stupid," said Roy Sommer, Gourde's coach at Worcester. "If a guy is going to win you games and get you points, you're not going to not play him.