Playoffs Day 30

The Lightning and Penguins played a very violent game with injuries to Ben Bishop, Kris Letang (who returned to the game), Tyler Johnson, and Brian Dumoulin. The Lightning had to put in Andrei Vasilevskiy in the first period and he made 25 saves on 26 shots. The injury to Tyler Johnson is a big one since he is one of their best centers. These injures are just another hurtle the Lightning have to jump over. Alex Killorn scored first on a breakaway when he stickhandled in front of Murray and put in 5-hole on the backhander. Ondrej Palat doubles the lead to 2 when h got a rebound off of Valtteri Filppula's shot. Jonathan Drouin made it 3-0 on a one timer from Ondrej Palat on a 2 on 1. Patric Hornqvist made it 3-1 on a great pass by Sidney Crosby to shoot it in. That would not be enough as the Lightning went on to win it 3-1, but both teams had some injuries that game to deal with. There is no game today, but on Sunday the Blues and sharks will play game 1 of the western conference finals. Can the Lightning overcome even more injuries? Will the Penguins get a bounce back effort? How long will Bishop be out? stay tuned....