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Tampa Bay Lightning prevented Colorado Avalanche from energetically lifting Denver's Stanley Cup in Game 5.
The two defending champions aim to take a new step towards maintaining their precious Chalice, in their case on Sunday night when they host an avalanche in Game 6 of Tampa. ..
Ondley Paratt scored a go-ahead goal on Friday, leaving 6:22 in the third period to win Lightning 3-2 over Avalanche. Joe Pavelski (14) and Evgeni Malkin (13) are the only active players to win goals in Palat's 12 career games in the playoffs.
Tampa Bay, who survived the third elimination game of the postseason, is still below 3-2 in the Best 7 Series. Lightning participated in the 1942 Toronto Maple Leafs as the only NHL team, bidding to recover from the 3-1 Series deficit and win the final seven Stanley Cup Finals. Those reefs are actually back from the 3-0 series deficit.
"We extended the season and that's what we wanted to do," said Lightning captain Stephen Stemkos. "We talked about one game at a time. We were grinded, but we found a way. We made a lot of effort, but now we have to do it again."
Patrick Maroon knows that. After all, the 34-year-old Lightning Forward knows one or two things about winning the Stanley Cup after winning each of the last three seasons.
"Listen, this is a big challenge for us," Maroon said. "Exciting challenges too. We need to be excited about this challenge and accept it."
Tampa Bay has an impressive 8-2 record at home in the playoffs, averaging 3.70 per game. I'm recording a goal. Lightning will return to the Amalie Arena for the first time after making a 3-2 decision on Wednesday overtime.
Colorado has now won the first three series on the street, slamming 8 to 1 from home in the postseason. High-octane avalanches have averaged solid 4.56 goals and 44.0 percent power play efficiency on the road.
Colorado captain Gabriel Landeskog has publicly stated that he wants his team to focus on Game 6 rather than on Game 5 events, as in Stemkos.
"It's not easy, it won't be easy," Randeskog said. "We knew we were going into this, we knew it was going into (Friday) .... (Andrey) Vasilevsky good night again. We were in our game Satisfied with, tied it in the third, and then obviously they created a slot shot that squeezed it (Darsey Kempfer).
"So that's what it is. In the playoffs. A short memory of, and that's what we're trying to do. "
Colorado's defensive Cale Makar collected goals and assists for his eighth multipoint performance in the playoffs. .. The Norris Trophy winners are only the Hockey Hall of Fame Armakinis (10, 1989), Brian Leetch (9, 1994), and Paul Coffey (9, 1985), most tracked by NHL Defense in a single playoff.
Avs forward Valeri Nichushkin also scored goals and assists on Friday to achieve his fourth multipoint performance in the last seven games.
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