NEW YORK -- The Tampa Bay Lightning ended the New York Rangers' eight-game home playoff winning streak with a 3-1 win in Game 5 of the Eastern Conference finals on Thursday night, pushing them to the brink of elimination.
NEW YORK -- The Tampa Bay
Lightning ended the New York Rangers' eight-game home playoff winning streak with a 3-1 win in Game 5 of the Eastern Conference finals on Thursday night, pushing them to the brink of elimination.
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"We've been down 3-2 in every series so far," forward Andrew Copp said. "We're going to have to have a level of desperation. There's belief in the room. We played a pretty solid hockey game."
Defenseman Jacob Trouba underscored that belief.
"It definitely stings," he said. "But we have to go there, win a game, come back here and play a Game 7. That's the goal now. We're going to go to Tampa and win a game."
The Rangers and Lightning were tied 1-1 late in the third period when a shot from Tampa Bay defenseman Mikhail Sergachev was deflected into the net by winger Ondrej Palat with 1:50 left in regulation. It was Palat's second game-winning goal in the past three games; he also scored with 42 seconds
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