As much as one would like to deny the matter, there is a grand disparity ripping its way through the Tampa Bay Lightning and their fan base right now. While the locker room may not feel it quite as much as the fan base, it is definitely still a massive elephant in the room.
Exactly what is this massive elephant in the room, you may ask? Well, it is the little matter of Tampa Bay Lightning goaltender Peter Budaj and the balance between expectation and reality. Everyone expects Budaj to play at the same level as Andrei Vasilevskiy.