Tampa Bay Lightning and New York Rangers are experiencing different emotions to the last game of the six -month regular season marathon.
Lightning is set for appearance after another season and is excited about the potential of a deep run, while Rangers closes the doors in one of the seasons that are more disappointed in the history of franchise in New York on Thursday night on Thursday night.
Teams are gathering for the second time this month. The Gulf of Tampa (47-26-8, 102 points) rose to 5-1 route in New York on April 7 and scored three goals in the power game and in the first period 1:45 Brayden Point, Nikita Kucherov and Jake Guentzel released three-point nights.
Tampa Bay ranked second in the Atlantic Department and Home Ice Advantage on Tuesday night.
“We put ourselves in a position to compete for a Stanley Cup,” Lightning coach Jon Cooper said. He said. “There are 32 teams. Only 16 people remained and we are one of the 16 years of age. We wanted to do it. I think we looked every year, okay, their time is over.” And every year these men prove that they can go back and do it.
“We have memories to do in front of us, and that’s why I am excited to see what we can do in these playoffs.”
Guentzel, Kucherov and Point have recently been on hot lines to help Tampa Bay to get home-usual advantage in the opening tour of a full season for the first time since 2019.
Guentzel has 14 goals and 12 assists in the last 24 matches, and Kucerov will finish the second flat season with the highest scores and career for the third time. In the last 16 matches, Kucherov has 29 of 121 points (nine goals, 20 assists). Point completes the third flat 40 goal season and has 10 goals in the last 13 games.
Rangers (38-36-7, 83 points) 10 days ago Tampa Bay lost the second explosion after the second joker card and returned from a three-game journey. New York was eliminated on Saturday with 7-3 defeats to Carolina Hurricanes and hopes to end with consecutive wins after winning 5-3 in Florida on Monday.
Rangers is the fourth team to miss the playoffs after winning the president’s cup in the previous season in the previous season, and at the beginning of this season, it is 7-10-3 in the last 20 matches after 15 losses to leave the playoff contention in 19 games.
Rangers will use the season finals to evaluate some young players such as Gabe Perreault, Brett Berard and Matthew Robertson, who made NHL finals and paired some of the best defense with Adam Fox.
The young trio played a night when Rangers gathered from two goals and saw Vincent Trocheck scored Tiebreak goals during a penalty killing in the third period.
“Even though we are outside the playoffs, we are still trying to win, Ran Rangers said, after scoring four straight goals for the first many goals of the season.
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