Lightning vs. Avalanche - Game 4 - 6/22 8PM ET

[Hoek]

Can we tie up the series, or will the Avs push us to the brink?

[TexasBolt]

This is turning out like the 2015 SCF where Chicago was probably better to begin with, and then everyone got hurt one after another and they were too beat up to fight back. By the middle of Game 5 you could tell they weren’t going to win the series. Oh well.

[Pat664422]

I was thinking the same thing. Though I don't think Chicago was better than our healthy 2015 team.

[aapbolt]

Yeah we are losing guys right and left. Plus no calls when we should have had them. By the end of the 3rd our guys were just worn out.

[TexasBolt]

They’re probably only going to win two Cups in a row, which means that, according to all the saddos on the Internet, they are a bunch of losers and frauds.

[Hoek]

We got jobbed. Too many men on that OT goal (not to mention all the penalties they got away with before that). Oh well, way too much attrition to overcome anyway.

[Pat664422]

I saw Cooper was talking about too many men in the post game, and I'd be more upset if the overtime period hadn't looked like just a matter of time for the same outcome. We looked gassed, whether it's the injuries, the amount of hockey played these last three season, both, etc. I'm not surprised it leaves a bad taste in everyone's mouth though, to have it happen on a non-reviewable penalty.

[Hoek]

I saw Cooper was talking about too many men in the post game, and I'd be more upset if the overtime period hadn't looked like just a matter of time for the same outcome. We looked gassed, whether it's the injuries, the amount of hockey played these last three season, both, etc. I'm not surprised it leaves a bad taste in everyone's mouth though, to have it happen on a non-reviewable penalty.

Yeah but we also looked gassed and awful in the OT against Toronto and still won (also against the Islanders in 2020). You never know...

[aapbolt]

I looked at the video and they had 6 men on the ice, how the hell do you miss that, all 4 of the officials missed it. That is why Bednar refused to talk after the game, probably laughing his ass off. Yeah we were gassed but that doesn’t mean we would have lost the game. What crap there will be an asterisk on that win. They would have caught us if we had had 6 on the ice.

[Bolthed]

[Bolthed]

[Bolthed]

High stick AND too many men calls missed on the (likely) Cup-winning goal … I’m sick to my stomach

[Top Shelf]

And they're done.

The missed calls are hideously atrocious, really hard to fathom. Love the game notes even STATING the six skaters on the ice for COL. Yet they get away with it.

Still, with that low-energy, lackluster performance in OT, from the opening face-off until the inevitable GWG,...it's been a fun time, but the next victory boat parade will have to be either next year, or about something else entirely

[TexasBolt]

If they didn’t win then they would have won later. The only thing I’m really upset about is that Colorado pretty much had three byes in a row to get here and the Lightning had to survive a gauntlet.

[RSchmitz]

We can win three in a row, just don’t know if we can do it with all of the injuries. We need some luck