Lightning Overtime Issues Spelled Doom Against the Maple Leafs

1 year ago  /  The Hockey Writers

This is a playoff series that will haunt the Tampa Bay Lightning for a very long time. The win also marked the third loss for the Lightning in overtime this series, continuing a pattern of struggles in the extra period going back to 2020. The last time the Lightning won a playoff game in overtime was in Game 4 of the 2020 Stanley Cup Final, when Patrick Maroon won an offensive zone faceoff, sending it back to Victor Hedman, who then passed it to Kevin Shattenkirk, whose shot from a sharp angle went over Dallas Stars’ goaltender Anton Khudobin’s right pad and a 3-1 series lead. Since then, the Lightning have lost ten straight playoff games in overtime. Before this recent turn of events, the Lightning were 14-4 in the postseason in overtime from 2014 to Game 4 of the 2020 Cup Final....

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