Tampa Bay Lightning

Tampa Bay Lightning

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  • Goals For
    288 GF
  • Goals Against
    267 GA
  • Power Play %
    28.6 PP%
  • Penalty Kill %
    83.3 PK%
  • Penalty Mins
    901 PIM
  • The Canadian Press

    Goaltender interference debate is alive and well in the NHL playoffs after 1st-round controversy

    Minutes after his team was knocked out of the NHL playoffs in a game that included two disallowed goals because of goaltender interference, Jon Cooper was careful to say those calls weren't the reason the Tampa Bay Lightning lost the series. He still had a problem with them. Cooper, a two-time Stanley Cup-winning coach, pointed out the league has made one rule change after another to encourage offense. When Tampa Bay scored its first goal, Florida coach Paul Maurice successfully challenged to wi