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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
Series isn't over yet and the Lightning had a really good regular season so hard to justify tearing it down. They are simply a victim of a terrible playoff format as they should have been facing Ottawa instead of the Panthers in the first round and the Panthers should be facing the Hurricanes. Lightning would have easily dispatched Ottawa and awaited the winner of the Panthers vs Hurricanes which would be a grind for whatever team came out. All this format has accomplished is ensuring that at least one of the top teams in each conference is guaranteed to be eliminated in the first round.
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This thing is done. 5 games at the most.
Blame the format...but if, if, if this and that...maybe teams play it a bit differently.
It's 3 straight years of round one losses for Tampa. They are very similar to what the Penguins were but like 4 years younger. The Pens won 2 cups, lost that round 2 series to the Caps the following year in OT of game 7 which pretty much was the series to determine the cup winner that year.. Than stopped winning playoff rounds.