After (almost) every Tampa Bay Lightning playoff game, I’ll be here to offer up my thoughts about the game. Some of these thoughts will be analytical, some emotional, and some just whatever. Sometimes these thoughts will be really nicely structured and thought out ahead of time. Sometimes, they’ll just be a stream of conscious talking. We’ll never know until I start writing.
So here’s our first one of the playoffs. The Lightning came out for the first period and Amalie Arena was rocking through the first 20 minutes. If you had a prop bet of Alex Killorn scoring a shorthanded goal as the first goal of the NHL playoffs.