It was a tale of two different games.
The first 20 minutes saw the Tampa Bay Lightning play tentative, turn the puck over, and pull the puck out of its own net on three separate occasions. The remaining 40 minutes saw a Lightning team that was all over the Bruins, played their game, created turnovers and dominated. It was that team that dominated on the scoreboard as well, scoring 5 unanswered goals to give the Lightning a huge comeback win and tie the best of seven series at two games a piece.
The Lightning played well at times in the first period, but their mistakes all seemed to find the back of their net; Patrice Bergeron scored two goals, one shorthanded, and Michael Ryder added one of his own to give the Bruins what appeared to be an insurmountable lead at 3-0. Nothing went right in the period for the Lightning.
“We’ve been in that situation a lot this year and we were able to come back,” forward Simon Gagne said. “We were really positive, even though we were down 3-0. We talked about the first goal, and after that everything was possible.”
