ECF Game 3: Tampa Bay Lightning @ Washington Capitals | 8 PM ET | CBC, SN, TVAS, NBCSN

[SeattleSportsFan]

you get a crosscheck, and you get a crosscheck, and you get a crosscheck...

So many crosschecks! That's playoff hockey I guess.

 

[Dough72]

woah the announcer just praised Stamkos for having a couple of "verbal jousts". Earlier someone said the capitals are a team full of goons. The absolute state of modern nerf hockey.

 

[OurlordAndSaviorKuch]

NBC shitting on Sergy......

 

[Tuna Tatarrrrrr]

Johnson is alive? I thought he was dead the way he acted on the crosscheck.

 

[BoltsFanPinellasPark]

That emotion from the Pens series is gone for the Caps. They won't have that extra step on the Lightning from here on out. This is where the experience on the Lightning bench starts to take over. Lighting game all over the ice has been dominate. THIS is what I expected from the Bolts.

 

[Hockeyholic]

That emotion from the Pens series is gone for the Caps. They won't have that extra step on the Lightning from here on out. This is where the experience on the Lightning bench starts to take over. Lighting game all over the ice has been dominate. THIS is what I expected from the Bolts.

Too early to suggest this. Tampa, not Washington, had to have this game. Game 4 will be the determining factor in whether this is a series or mere formality.

 

[VinikToWinIt]

Johnson is alive? I thought he was dead the way he acted on the crosscheck.

Yeah that looked like it hurt. Glad he's ok.

 

[PromisedLand]

hey look holtby stopped a shot

 

[SpringfieldSkins]

Came in to this game thinking one of the next two. Just have to win the next one. No big deal.

 

[OurlordAndSaviorKuch]

We win Thursday I will take back all of my rage induced rants about this team.

 

[Aoko]

LOL GRANDMA SLEEPIN

 

[Frenchy]

two goals game

 

[heynowbababooey]

We win Thursday I will take back all of my rage induced rants about this team.

Ye of little faith

 

[Captain And Coke]

Cue the too little too late comeback

 

[OurlordAndSaviorKuch]

God dammit

 

[dechire]

We win Thursday I will take back all of my rage induced rants about this team.

They win Thursday, Saturday and Monday and I will take back every bad thing I've ever said about Sustr who is obviously killing it in the press box

 

[Cletus Marley]

Caps clawing their way back in. Lots of time left.

 

[Dough72]

That emotion from the Pens series is gone for the Caps. They won't have that extra step on the Lightning from here on out. This is where the experience on the Lightning bench starts to take over. Lighting game all over the ice has been dominate. THIS is what I expected from the Bolts.

hope so because I'm cheering for tampa for no real reason but I think it's more likely just one of those games. I think standing up to Tom Wilson might be a turning point though. That stralman hit where he pushed wilson's head into the glass and the crosschek to wilson's face when he jabbed their goalie was huge for the tampa locker room.

 

[DANTHEMAN1967]

What...no bird dance?

 

[Rygu]

Vas should have had that.

 

[PromisedLand]

the bird aint flying tonight eh kuzy

 

[heynowbababooey]

Too little too late. If they tie it up I'll PayPal all of you $1.

 

[BoltsFanPinellasPark]

Too early to suggest this. Tampa, not Washington, had to have this game. Game 4 will be the determining factor in whether this is a series or mere formality.

I feel like the Bolts have to have every game to be honest. They had to have game 1 at home. They lost. They had to have game 2 at home cause they lost game 1. They lost. They had to have this game cause they lost both at home. They look like they will have it. They will have to have Game 4 as well.

I suggest that the Caps emotional surge from the Pens series is over. They certainly got the most out of it, but its done now. Now the Caps will have to find that energy to skate with the Bolts from somewhere else.

Tampa has clearly shown that they will not be pushed around even though they are the "smaller" team. Tonight, the Bolts did what they had to do. I expect them to continue that. Caps will have to find something else to fuel their game, beating the Pens has been played out.

 

[OurlordAndSaviorKuch]

Vas should have had that.

I am sure he knows

 

[third man in]

Hell of a snipe from Kuz