Tampa Bay Lightning head coach Jon Cooper isn’t making excuses for his team. “Just because you're not expected to make the playoffs, does that make it okay if you don't make it? Regardless of how we've gotten here. We can sit here and people say, ‘Well it's injuries or this.’ We're still right there. We beat some pretty good teams with the lineup we have. We need to continue to do so.” [Raw Charge]
Greg McKegg has the perfect quote to describe this up-and-down season of infinite injuries. “‘It's a weird year,’ center Greg McKegg said.