COLUMBUS, Ohio — The Tampa Bay Lightning, the NHL’s best team, lost their first two playoff games at home to the Columbus Blue Jackets and are vulnerable without their top scorer for Game 3. The Blue Jackets have been in this heady position before in the post-season, just before they fell on their faces. Now they have the Tampa Bay on the ropes and are enticingly closer to winning the first playoff series in franchise history. In other words, there’s a lot of hockey left to the play in the series, and the Blue Jackets players know it all too well. “They are going to give us their best game, Game 3 at home,” Blues coach Craig Berube said.

Source: National Post April 13, 2019 18:56 UTC