Tampa Bay Lightning defeats Colorado Avalanche 3-2 in Game 5 of the Stanley Cup Finals

Keep the champagne cold. After failing to finish Tampa Bay Lightning in the Stanley Cup Finals, return to the muddy ice of the Colorado Avalanche’s Amalie Arena.

Lightning overwhelms Colorado with a tougher physique, clogs the neutral zone, and again relies on goalkeeper Andreiva Silevsky’s Firebolt reflex to rely on Friday night’s Game 5 at the Ball Arena 3-2. The victory countered Colorado’s excellent speed.

Director John Cooper found a way for Lightning to bottle Colorado captains Gabriel Landeskog and Mikko Rantanen and send the series back to Tampa in Game 6 on Sunday night.

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Ondrey Paratt sent a puck to Darcy Kaempfer’s foot, defeating a 2-2 tie leaving 6:22 in the third period, Colorado whistling too many men on the ice, 2:38. I was aiming for an equalizer.

Cooper complained 48 hours ago that too many men were on the ice to win the extra time in Colorado, but this time Avs didn’t get over it.

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Whistles and Blake weren’t on the road to Colorado in Game 5. There was no call when Lightning knocked on Avalanche, with or without a stick pack.

Tampa Bay went four forwards when Avalanche star Kale McCar whistled on a 4-4 skate because he stumbled in the second period. Nikita Kucherov took advantage of that moment by scoring a second goal with 17 power play chances from writing in the finals.

Macar scored a goal early in the third period and drew in two.

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Lightning is in a position to connect the series in Florida this weekend. There, Avalanche Center Nazim Kadori complained about the bad ice before deciding the winner in Game 4.

After the thriller, Avalanche said Avalanche hadn’t exhaled yet, claiming that it would be the hardest to get a fourth victory over a back-to-back champion.

Playing in the 67th playoff game since the first round of the 2020 playoffs, Lightning has lived up to their hope of becoming the first team to win the Stanley Cup three times in a row during the salary cap era. ..

To do so, we need to be the first team to recover from a 3-1 deficit to win the cup since the Toronto Maple Leafs in 1942.

One down, two left.