TAMPA — Florida Pumas coach Paul Maurice did not appear as well disturbed taking after his team’s Diversion 4 misfortune to the Tampa Narrows Lightning on Saturday evening.
He fair needed to elude an awfully warm press workroom where his press conference was being held.
Maurice brought his pack with him and was prepared to induce domestic.
Taking after a 6-3 misfortune to the Lightning, the Jaguars did fair that.
Florida will play have to Diversion 5 of the first-round of the NHL Stanley Glass playoffs on Monday night after the Lightning maintained a strategic distance from a clear and kept its season lively.
“We were not exceptionally great and we were a small bit slow,” Maurice said. “We had a few issues with the uncommon groups, so, that’s a formula for a intense one.”
The Pumas said they were arranged for a big thrust from the Lightning — as it were it did not see it within the opening period.
“We came out with fire and we got rewarded,” Tampa Inlet defenseman Victor Hedman said a while later. “They pushed back within the moment, but I thought we had a colossal third and merited the win.”
Yes, for the primary time in this best-of-7 arrangement, the Lightning were the superior team.
Tampa Bay did not ended up Florida’s moment clear victim within the past year by scoring three within the to begin with and holding off a enormous thrust from the Jaguars in the last 40.
“We gave them as well numerous control plays and that’s what got them in this game,” said Dmitry Kulikov, who took a tall adhere late which cleared out a few cuts on his confront.
“When we are playing 5-on-5, we’re a lovely great group. We made chances, we were back in that diversion. Sometimes typically the way it goes. We wanted to win this one, but we’re going domestic presently. We’ll attempt and wrap up the job there.”
Florida trailed 3-0 after the primary and was down 4-1 halfway through the moment some time recently Sam Reinhart and Oliver Ekman-Larsson pulled the Jaguars inside a objective.
The Jaguars certainly had force on their side going into the third and had numerous chances to tie things up.
But Steven Stamkos’ moment objective of the night on a lovely no-look shot from 35-feet out beat a shocked Sergei Bobrovsky and the Lightning live to battle another day.
“We did what we required to do at home,” said Maurice, whose group beat the Lightning twice in Dawn some time recently part the two in Tampa. “We won the first two recreations. At that point we did what we required to do on the street. We part. You’re up three and you need to win that fourth one, but they’ve got a beautiful great group over there.”
Said captain Sasha Barkov:
“We all know it’s a fight. It’s best-of-7. We’re up 3-1 going domestic. We’re in a good spot.”